Nutraliens  :  Downloadable Teachers Packet  :  Fun Facts

Bone up on the facts about milk with these clever and amazing, sometimes amusing, always good to know, fun facts about the milk you drink and the dairy products you eat.

Cows are like snowflakes.
No two Holsteins have the same spot pattern.
Why do cows wear earrings? Because milk cows have their ears pierced with I.D. tags.
If cows could run, they'd make good hunting dogs. Cows can smell something up to 6 miles away.
Which weighs the most? A Heifer or a Holstein?
Heifers are little girl cows, 1 year-old females, weighing a mere 450 pounds. Holsteins are the heavyweights at up to 1,500 pounds.
The Father of our Country, George Washington, ran up a $200 ice cream bill in one summer (at a time when ice cream was a lot cheaper, too!)
The speed limit for cow chewing is 50 times a minute.
Yellow is the color of grass. The yellow color of butter comes from beta carotene in the grass that cows eat.
Milk is like music to your ears. Chocolate Milk was a funky soul band that recorded on the RCA label. Milk Cult was an industrial music duo from the 1990s.
Cows use their long tongues to twirl grass up to their mouths.

 

 

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