• At around two weeks old, calves play-fight, socially lick, and play mount.
• Cattle have four-chambered stomachs (as do all ruminants), not four stomachs as is often quoted. Each part plays a different role in the digestion of semi-chewed swallowed grass, including the famous ‘chewing the cud’, where the cow regurgitates food to further masticate.
• A cow’s pregnancy term is the same as a human’s.
• Folklore states that if cows are sitting down it’s a sure sign of rain, which is udder nonsense (they do this for up to 14 hours per day).
• A Friesian’s spots are like a fingerprint: no two cows have exactly the same pattern.
• Being prey animals, cows’ eyes are located on the sides of their heads. This provides them with a wide field of view…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2022