MOUNTAIN VIEW  FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY

MEET OUR RESCUE CATTLE

• Cows are social animals, and they naturally form large herds. Like people, they will make friends and bond to some herd members, while avoiding others.
• They experience a range of emotions, especially grief when a calf is removed from it’s mother or the death of a pasture-mate.
• Cows are red-green colorblind. In a bullfight, it’s the waving of the cape that attracts the bull not the red color
• An average dairy cow weighs about 1,200 pounds.
• The typical cow sleeps for only 4 hours a day.
• Cows actually do not bite grass; instead they curl their tongue around it.
• Cows are pregnant for 9 months just like people.
• The average cow drinks 30 to 50 gallons of water each day, which is the equivalent of a full bathtub.
• Cows only have teeth on the bottom.
• Cows have a great sense of smell. They can smell something up to 6 miles away.
• A Holstein’s spots are like a fingerprint. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of black and white spots. They are all different.
• Like many other grazing animals cattle have one stomach which is divided into four compartments or chambers: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. This allows them to digest grain and grasses most effectively
• The lifespan of a cow can vary by breed and lifestyle, however, the average domestic cow living out their life can live up to and over 20 years.