This afternoon we checked out
Rosie's World. We found out –
- Rosie is a dairy cow - she gives us milk
- Cows eat lots of grass each day
- There are 1,000 different types of cow in the world
- Jersey cows are brown, are smaller than other cows and produce the best milk
- Cows have four stomachs
- Milking machines get the milk from the cow's udder so we can drink it
- The milk from the cows are collected by milk tankers and is taken to the dairy factory
- At the dairy factory milk is made into lots of different things - flavoured milk, cheese and butter
- There is a very clever robotic system on some farms that helps the farmer with the work on the farm
- Grass comes up from the cow's stomach into it's mouth and it chews it again for a minute because grass is very hard to digest
- Cows get scared of big things, like trucks
- Cows eat 70 kilograms of grass a day
- Milk gets pasteurized to remove bacteria - heated to 72 degrees Celsius and cooled to 3 degrees Celsius
