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Hi all.............Day 7 of 30 poems in 30 days, one week gone already !


Here is the marvellous Marjory Lacy with 
a little ditty about our bovine friends :-

COWS

I knew nothing about cows,

Except that they were large,

Some with horns, some with

Masses of hair!, the one that I

Could recognise was the

    Highland Cattle!

Oh! And they say ‘MOO’ too.

Until Adam, on television’s

Countryfile programme, he is the

resident farmer, told us all about

    The Belted Galloway,,

The Shorthorn’s

The English Old Spot

(or is that the pig?)

Sorry I meant, the English Longhorn,

There are the beautifully coloured

Jersey cows, with the eyes like deep

dark pools, whose milk produce the

Best milk and cheeses.

Then of course, there is the

‘Cow that jumped over the moon’.

I think we all know that one!

Facts about Cows

Cows are social animals, and they naturally form large herds. And like people, they will make friends and bond to some herd members, while avoiding others

Cows are red-green colour blind. In a bullfight, its the waving of the cape that attracts the bull not the red colour

A cow’s heart beats between 60 and 70 beats per minute

Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than humans.

An average dairy cow weighs about 1,200 pounds.

A cows normal body temperature is 101.5°F.

The average cow chews at least 50 times per minute.

The typical cow stands up and sits down about 14 times a day.

An average cow has more than 40,000 jaw movements in a day.

Cows actually do not bite grass; instead they curl their tongue around it.

Cows have almost total 360-degree panoramic vision.

Cows have a single stomach, but four different digestive compartments.

Cows are pregnant for 9 months just like people

A dairy cow can produce 125 lbs. of saliva a day

Cows spend 8 hours per day eating, 8 hours chewing her cud (regurgitated, partially digested food), and 8 hours sleeping

You can lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs. Cows knees can’t bend properly to walk downstairs.

Cows can’t vomit

The average cow drinks 30 to 50 gallons of water each day

The average cow produces 70 lbs. of milk. That’s 8 gallons per day!

Cows only have teeth on the bottom

Cows have a great sense of smell. They can smell something up to 6 miles away

Dairy cows are economic job creating machines! 1 dairy cow creates 4 full time jobs in the local community

A Holstein’s spots are like a fingerprint. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of black and white spots. They are all different

The average cow will eat about 100 lbs. of feed per day

Poetry Challenge

NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.





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