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There are over 1,000 different types of cow all over the world and they come in all shapes and sizes!
Find out more about cow breeds here
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There are 11,372 dairy herds in New Zealand and that makes around 4.95 million milking cows!!
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Here in New Zealand there are more dairy herds on the North Island than the South Island!
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The food us cows eat creates gasses in our stomachs and to stop us erupting like a volcano, we burp and pass wind!
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Cows are milked 260 days a year!
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Cows are two years old when they have their first calf!
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it takes nine months for a calf to grow inside a cow - the same as a human baby!
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Cows need to drink around 70 litres of water every day to help them produce all that lovely milk!
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Us cows need to eat about 100 kilograms of wet grass every single day!
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I moosually eat for around eight hours a day and then chew my cud for about eight hours too - that's like eating your meal twice!
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Cows are usually milked twice a day - once at about 5am (before you're even awake) and again around 3pm, just as you finish school!
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A cow recognises her calf by smell and sound - the cow instantly recognizes the smell of her new baby and they also talk to each other too - moo!
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Cows have a great sense of smell - they can smell something up to 10 kilometers away!
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A cow heart pumps more blood around its body every day than a milk truck and trailer could hold!
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Whitebait are the baby fish of five species of native fish and they're one of the most expensive fish in Moo Zealand!
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There's actually more life under the soil we stand on than there is above it! Around 500 million living things are in each tiny bit of soil - it's positively buzzing!!
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Riparian planting is where farmers fence off streams, rivers and swamps on their land and allow plants to grow along the edges of them. This keeps farm animals away from the waterways so the water stays clean!
