Farm animal trivia facts.
The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.
There are more chickens in the world than people.
Chickens absorb vitamin-D through their combs from
sunshine.
The average hen will lay 227 eggs a year
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
A group of geese on the ground is gaggle, a group of geese
in the air is skein.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a
genetic link between the two.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog
peels off several times a year with new growth.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it
to see all four feet at all times.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs,
because a cows' knees can't bend properly to walk back down.
A female swine, or a sow, will always have a even number of
teats or nipples, usually twelve.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen
seconds.
A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows
have the same pattern of spots.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
It is physically impossible for pigs to lookup into the
sky.
A pig's skin is thickest at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.
The "wild" horses of western North America are
actually feral, not wild.
Over the average lifespan of 11 years, a dog will cost you
$13,350.00.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is
called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is
called a hinny.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a
female horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs
-- fierce and agile herd animals that populated Asia, North Africa and Europe
-- and eotragus -- anantelope-like, Asian forest creature.
Horses cannot vomit.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight
each year.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to
6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No
two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen,
the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the
abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus
epidemic in 1872.
Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear
lobes; white eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell
color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality,
nutrients or flavor.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs
with varicolored yolks.
Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the
human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
Female chickens, or hens, need about 24 to 26 hours to
produce one egg. Thirty minutes later they start the process all over again. In
addition to the half-hour rests, some hens rest every three to five days and
others rest every 10 days.
Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of
their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces
1/12th teaspoon of honey.
On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Prairie dogs are not dogs. A prairie dog is a kind of
rodent.
