As part of our Inquiry learning leading up to Agriculture Day,
we are investigating dairy products and technology on the farm.
Prior to our field trip to a couple of farms,
we will be researching ideas and posing questions for further investigation.
We will be looking closely at:
* milking
sheds (types, functions)
* the dairy farm cycle
* fencing systems
* farm machinery
* calf rearing
* dairy products - from cow to fridge
* technology that is used on the farm
* problems on the dairy farm (and solutions)
This is an 'info drop' site -
share your thinking, new ideas / learning, interesting facts, questions you have.
Go on - take the challenge - post now!!
QUESTION - What are in those four stomachs
ReplyDeletei cant wait till the tallpoppies come to my farm
In the four stomachs of a cow is Reticulum, Rumen,Omasum and Abomasum
ReplyDeleteHow many times does a cow have to chew grass before they swallow it?
A cow chews her cud meaning grass (regurgitated, partially digested food) for up to 8 hours each day.
DeleteI found out that :
ReplyDeleteCows are very unique they have 32 teeth more than any other animal.
Cows drink about a bathtub full of water and eat around 40 pounds of food a day.
Around 9.2 million cows are being milked on 110,000 farms in the United States. More than 99% of all dairy farms are family owned and operated.
Cows are milked for an average of 3-4 years. A cow must have a calf in order to produce milk.Calves are fed milk until they are 8-9 weeks old.
The average cow is 2 years old when she has her first calf.
A young female cow is called a heifer.
Dairy cows provide 90% of the world's milk supply. The best cows give over 25 gallons of milk each day. That's 400 glasses of milk! U.S. cows give an average of 2,000 gallons of milk per year. That's over 30,000 glasses of milk!
I hope you can learn more by going to this website : http://aipl.arsusda.gov/kc/cowfacts.html
I looked it up, and I found nothing, but I know they swallow it then puke it up and chew it again. (which is called chewing their cud!
ReplyDeleteCan anyone else find out?
QUESTION: how does the grass turn from green stalks, to liters of white milk?
I is amazing how the body works!