Apparently an Even More Interesting Fact....

Having posted my interesting milk fact, it turns out my friend Beth thinks that the amount of saliva produced by a cow is more interesting than the amount of milk produced. So here it is: A cow produces 100-200 litres of saliva per day. Yes, per DAY. OK, so that is quite impressively about 3-5 times more saliva than milk, but I think I appreciate the milk production more than the saliva (Saliva and 11/3 sugars with your tea? Doesn't quite go so well perhaps).

Anybody thirsty? An Interesing Fact:

Day 1257 of revision (OK, perhaps slight exaggeration...) and the animal husbandry exams are looming. Four days of oral and practical handling exams, all accumulating in a written exam on Friday.

As I plough through lectures from the nutritional content of grass to how to tell boy chinchillas from girl chinchillas, I often come across an interesting fact or two. Today I learnt that a dairy cow can produce 40 litres of milk per DAY in her peak. That's a lot of milk! Even I, in my heightened state of revision tea-drinking, would have difficultly consuming enough to keep up with that output. Mmm... Tea....