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About Cows

Cow is an important animal to human since centuries. Without cows you'll not get enough milk to drink. As we all know that a cow is a source for milk, but most of us don't know how & what a cow can provide else than milk. Here is some interesting information I collected for you all.

Although a cow has no upper front teeth, it grazes up to 8 hours a day, taking in about 45 kg (100 lb) of feed and the equivalent of a bath tub full of water. A healthy cow gives about 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A cow has four stomachs: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasums. The rumen is the largest stomach and acts as a fermentation chamber. The abomasums is last of the four and is comparable in both structure and function to the human stomach.
With all its grazing and many stomachs, it is no wonder that cows are one of the main contributors to the hole in the ozone layer. Apart from CFC, the biggest culprit is hydrocarbon emissions from cars and cows. Yes, cows! Cows release some 100 million tons of hydrocarbons annually - by releasing gas. To give you an idea of how much gas a cow emits: if the gas of 10 cows could be captured, it would provide heating for a small house for a year. But unlike what you think, cows release hydrocarbon mostly by burping.

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