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Registered: Fri Nov 19 1999
Posts: 17656
Loc: San Diego California USA
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- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- Cows actually baby-sit for each other. Small calves are settled into the grassy pasture & while 1 or 2 cows stay nearby to baby-sit, the rest of the moms go off to graze. Then they rotate back to take their turn baby-sitting while the 1st 'sitters' have a turn at the grazing.
- Cows eat their afterbirth.
- Cows navigate by looking at the ground. If the field the cows are in is flooded, they are not able to find their way home!
- Cows swallow metal objects! It happens too often & believe it or not, we ranchers refer to the sickness that follows as 'hardware disease'.
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