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Some Fun Cow Facts |
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Our Farm currently has 130 Holstein milk producing cows. |
| A cow gives approx. 8 gals per day or enough for over 100 people
to have a glass of milk every day! |
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A
cow must have a calf once a year to continue milking. A newborn
Holstein calf weighs about 80 pounds and can walk within one hour
after birth! |
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A
cow eats approx. 118 lbs. per day. That's equal to 118 bags of
our delicious
hermits! |
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| Their diet consists of hay, grain and corn silage. |
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A cow drinks approx. 1 bathtub full of water per day. |
| When a Holstein cow is milking, she weighs between 1,100 and 1,500
pounds. |
| A cow digests its food with the help of it's four stomachs. |
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A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or a snowflake.
No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots. |
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Cows have a total of 32 teeth only on the bottom.
Did you know that our cow manure is great for fertilizing flowers
and vegetable plants? You can pick up cow manure for FREE if you want to shovel it yourself.
A cow will produce for about 6 years.
Cows
are milked by machine and need to be milked twice a
day, every day. No days off/no vacations.
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