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Moo-ltiple Facts at the Dairy: Where Cows and Knowledge Combine!
About 80% of a dairy cow’s diet is inedible to humans.
Cows have a keen sense of smell - they can smell things up to 6 miles away!
To digest food, cows chew their cud 50 times per minute, 10 hours a day!
More than 97% of United States dairy farms are family owned and operated.
Today, a gallon of milk is produced with 65% less water & 63% less carbon than in 1944.
Dairy cows are milked 2-3 times a day. It only takes about 5-7 minutes for a cow to be milked!
Dairy cows eat 100 lbs. of feed a day.
Dairy cows drink 25-50 gallons of water a day. That’s about a bathtub full of water!
On average a dairy cow can produce 8-10 gallons of milk a day!
Milk travels from the farm to the store within 48 hours!
Did you know it takes 21.2 pounds of milk to make 1 single pound of butter? That's a lot of milk coming from dairy farms that goes into butter production for some of your favorite recipes!
Check out the Butter in a Jar recipe here
Did you know that newborn calves can stand up and walk within an hour after birth? This is all part of the miracle of birth that dairy farmers get to witness on a daily basis!
Did you know there are 40,200 dairy farms in the United States? What's even more amazing is that 94 percent of these farms are family-owned and operated!
Did you know that there are 7 common breeds of dairy cows in the United States? In the U.S., there are seven major breeds of dairy cows — Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, Holstein, Jersey, Milking Shorthorn and Red and White Holstein Learn what makes each breed unique! Find more fun facts at Drink-Milk.com
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