Cows

• A belted Galloway cow is also known as an "Oreo." It's black with a wide white band around the midriff.
• When a cow dies in Liechtenstein, the principality's newspapers run the animal's obituary.
• If you want a ton of milk a day, get 60 cows.
• One good dairy cow can turn out enough milk, butter, cheese to feed a family of four for 17 years.
• A pasture that can support one cow can support four deer.
• The longer the daylight, the more milk the dairy cow makes.
• A prize Holstein cow can produce more than three times her weight in milk a year.
• A dairy cow, if typical, gets up and down 14 times in 24 hours.
• Milk inside the cow is 101.5 degrees F.
• Cows have seven stomachs.
• No two cows have identical nose prints.
• A "yakow" is a cross between a yak and a cow.
• In the cowboy lingo of the Old West, a "ketch hand" was another name for someone who roped a calf.
• Cows devour and digest their hay better when fed on the ground instead of from raised racks.
• A dairy cow gives enough milk to be worth her keep for 5 to 7 years.