3. Cows were first brought to Australia in the
First Fleet in 1788. Five Indian cows and two
bulls were purchased at Cape Town. These
cows were not to be eaten but to be used for
transporting goods and breeding. The cows
soon ran away and were found about seven
years later in a herd of about sixty. By
1820, there were about 54 000 cows in
Australia, the largest herds owned by John
Macarthur and Reverend Samuel Marsden. By
1840 there were over 300 000 cattle.
4. Cows Milk contains 4 necessary minerals:
calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and zinc.
Cows Milk is also used to produce Cheese, yoghurt and
cream.
A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her
lifetime.
The record milk production for a single cow in a year is
55,660 pounds of milk.
5. A cow usually spends 6-7 hours in a day eating
cud (a ball of chewed up grass) and around 8
hours on chewing it.(regurgitated, partially
digested food).
Cows mainly eats grass and hay.
You have probably heard that a cow has four
stomachs. Not true. A cow has only one stomach
which contains four digestive compartments:
6. Cows farts destroy some of the ozone layer.
Cows can drink up to 35 gallons of water a day
Dairy cows can produce 125 lbs of saliva a day?
The milk bottle was invented in 1884. Plastic milk
containers came later – in 1964
A cow can climb up the stairs, but cannot climb down.
This is because her knees cannot bend properly.
It takes about 350 squirts for each gallon of milk from a
cow.
