Cattle

📖 In short

Cows are among the most important farm animals. They give us milk, which we make into butter, cheese, yogurt and ice cream, and meat and leather for shoes and bags. People raise them all over the world.

🤩 Did you know?

Most cows are about 1.5 meters tall.
A newborn calf weighs between 23 and 45 kilograms.
A dairy cow can give more than 25 liters of milk a day.
A cow has no front teeth in its upper jaw, just a hard pad.

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🌟 A stomach in four parts

A cow has a big stomach divided into four parts. It swallows grass quickly, then brings it back up into its mouth and chews it again while lying down. This is called chewing the cud.

🔍 Big eaters

A cow spends many hours every day eating and chewing grass and hay, and drinks a lot of water to make its milk.

💡 Cow, bull and calf

The female is called a cow, the male a bull, and the baby a calf. In the past, oxen pulled ploughs and carts in the fields.

🎯 Different breeds

There are many breeds of cattle: some give lots of milk, like the black-and-white spotted cow, some are raised for meat, and some have very long horns.