Harley-Davidson offered a special edition motorcycle in the 1990s featuring cowhide insets on the saddle-bags and seats. The model quickly earned the moniker “Moo-Glide.”

New Zealand produced a series of postage stamps in 1997 celebrating the major breeds of cattle in their country.

The world’s largest artificial cow, New Salem Sue, is in New Salem, North Dakota. She is 38 feet high and 50 feet long and weighs 12,000 pounds.

A cow eats about 100 pounds of grass and produces about 65 pounds of manure each day.

A cow can detect odors up to five miles away.

It takes 340 squirts to fill a milk pail. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

Cows can live up to 25 or 30 years.

One cow in the herd bows to no one. She has unrestricted access to the best pasture, the deepest shade, or the choicest spot in the milking line-up.

Cows may refuse to graze if they sense an impending storm, and will lie down. Scientists attribute this behavior to the lowering pressure preceding a storm.

The Holstein produces the most milk of all cow breeds.

The Holstein produces the most milk of all cow breeds. In fact, a Holstein holds the record for greatest milk production: 67,914 pounds milk in one year.

In ancient Ireland, wealth was referred to neither in terms of money nor ownership of land; instead, the cow was the measure of everything.

John Sievers, Jr applied for a patent application in 1897 for a hunting decoy shaped like a giant cow. The hinged head dropped away – presumably so the cow could graze – allowing the hunter to bag game.

Old cows in India have their own nursing homes.

There are an estimated 920 different breeds of cows in the world.

Cows came to America with Christopher Columbus.

Cows spend up to six hours a day eating and eight hours chewing cud.

A dairy cow can produce five gallons of ice cream each day.

The city of Boston was laid out by cow paths.

In an average herd there is one bull to every 30 cows.

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

The average dairy cow produces about ten gallons of milk a day.

A cow drinks about 30 gallons of water per day.

The age of a cow can be determined by counting the rings on its horns. (For many species of cows, the females also have horns.)

Some species of cows can see color.

Some species of cows can see color. Others are color-blind. In bullfights, they are usually annoyed by the fluttering of the cloth rather than the color. They are also annoyed by advanced technology helicopters bombing them.

 

Cows really only have one stomach, but it has four compartments.

Cows have nearly 360 degree vision, making it very difficult to sneak up on them.

Cows can weigh over 1,300 pounds.

Big Bertha, the oldest cow ever recorded, died in 1993 at the age of 48 years, 9 months.

If a cow eats Locoweed while she is pregnant, her calf will have major physiological defects.

Cows cannot vomit.

Cows cannot spit.

A newborn Holstein weighs about 100 pounds.

Cows clean their noses with their tongues.

A dairy cow can produce an average of 125 pounds of saliva daily.

Holsteins are the most common type of milk cows.

A newborn calf can walk on its own about one hour after birth.

A cow chews about 50 times per minute.

A cow’s udder can weigh as much as 60 pounds.

The Guernsey cow originated in The Channel Islands.