Cows Facts

You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.

There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand.

There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands.

The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

The temperature of milk when it is coming out of a cow is about 36 degrees Celsius.

Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk.

On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day.

On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day.

A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day.

You can lead a cow up a stairwell but not down a stairwell.

Cows have four-chambered stomachs.

Cows can sleep standing up.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.