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Jersey cows are light brown. Their milk is best for making butter and cheese. Dairy cows weigh as much as 1500 pounds. |
Our Animal Favorites 2002:
Cows & Pigs |
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| Amy Thomas |
Actually, cows and pigs are our favorite "pet
animals". For three years now, we have been exchanging class pets with another first
grade class in Wisconsin. Also ... these "pets" are really stuffed animal
puppets, Belle the Cow and Petunia the Pig. You can read all about our This year, we
extended our project to learn more about real cows and pigs. This webpage shows what
we have learned. We also contibuted illustrations and animal information to an
Internet project, Spring Into Life, hosted by Susan Silverman and Pattie
Knox. Just click on the title and you can visit this great project. |
Annie T. E. |
| Scott Anthony |
Anna Caitlin |
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| Dominique Ryan |
Click on a student name or... Next |
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| Brian Hannah |
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Jersey cows are light brown. Their milk is best for making butter and cheese. Dairy cows weigh as much as 1500 pounds. |
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Milk is good for people. We like it. A cow’s baby is a calf. It looks sweet and has large, dark eyes like a deer. |
| Cows make milk and keep it in a big bag called the udder. Cows are milked by the farmer twice a day. |
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| Cows have a long tongue to grab the grass for them to eat. They also eat hay, corn, and oats. |
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A cow has no teeth at the top in the front. Cows have a stomach with four parts. |
| Cows go , "Moo." They have flat teeth in the back to eat grass. They chew their food more than once. They chew their cud. |
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 Cows are very big. They
have special teeth to eat grass and hay. Some cows are black and white. Others are brown.
Black and white ones give a lot of milk. People used to milk cows by hand, but now they
have machines to do it. Nobody can drink milk that comes right from the cow. If you do,
you will get very sick. So the milk goes to a place to make it good. It is pasteurized by
heating it.There are many kinds of milk. Chocolate milk does not come from brown cows.
Brown cows are called Jersey cows and Holstein cows are black and white. Cows are very
special. Mooo! |
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Pigs roll in the mud to not get sunburn. Did you know that a male is called a boar, a female is a sow, and baby pigs are piglets? |
Pigs make a snorting sound. They can weigh 250 pounds when they go to market. |
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Pigs are all different colors and they are mammals. Did you know that? Mammals are animals that have babies born alive and they drink milk from their moms. |
Pigs are smart. Pigs live in a pigsty. They eat corn and soybeans. Pigs have snouts to dig in the dirt. |
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Pigs roll in the mud to keep cool. Farmers raise pigs for meat like ham, pork, and bacon. |
