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| COW PICS INFO LANGUAGES NEWS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MOOOST RECENT UPDATE: JANUARY 9, 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Through painstaking research I have found out how to say 'cow' in 34 different languages. On the left is cow and on the right is the foreign language it is in. MDM 3px cvp raprax - Mongolian agelada - Greek bos - Latin begra - Dardja behi - Basque cow - English crava -Serbian earc - Gaelic EpNE - Arabic gaa`ey - Urdu gAya - Hindi galw - Pahlavi gombe - Swahili inek Cingira Di - Turkish ko - Danish ko -Swedish koe - Dutch koei - Afrikaans kopaba - Russian krava - Bulgarian krava - Czech krowa - Polish ku - Norweigan kuh - German kuh - Yiddish lehmd - Finnish lehn - Estonian lembu - Malay pipi wahini - Hawaiian sapi - Indonesian so - Korean tehen - Hungarian ushi - Japanese vaca - Catalan vaca - Portuguese vaca - Spanish vacca - Italian vache - French |
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| COW INFO Cows are from the genus Bos (See Latin entry on the left). Teeth: 32 Weight: 1000 - 2200 lb. Population: 1.25 million world wide, India has the most cows because they are holy. Horns: Hollow, hornless cow are "polled." Diet: Typical beef cattle eat 35 - 95 pounds a day. Herbivores. Corn, pasture, and hay are the most popular foods. Milk: A gallon weighs 8.6 pounds. One glass of Milk provides these percentages of Daily Value. Protein 17%, Calcium 29%, Phosphorus 23%, Riboflavin 23%, Vitamin D 25%, and B-12 15%. Life Expectancy: 30 years. Herd: Bulls are outnumbered 30:1. Manure: One cow produces 10 tens of manure a year. Smallest Cow Breed: Dexter. Domestication: Cows were domesticated over 5,000 years ago and are domesticated on all continents (Excluding Antarctic :-). |
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| What is Mad Cow Disease and Where is it Found? Mad cow disease is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). It comes from feed that is laced with sheep parts for extra potein. The disease slowly eats away at the brain ow the cow causing it to become "Mad." The cow will act strange and become unstable and lose its balance until it dies. Humans contract the disease by eating meat from cows infected with BSE. The disease is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The average age for naturally occurring CJD is 56. It much lower when it comes from BSE infected beef. For the scientists among us, both CJD and BSE are spongiform diseases. A prion infects the animal and whe the animal dies the brain will have undergone transformation into somthing resembling a sponge. Some other spongiform diseases are scrapie (Sheep), Gerstmann-Strayussler-Scheinker (Humans), and Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy (Mink). All of the 15 European Union countries excluding Sweden has had one or more cases of BSE. Mad cow disease is most commonly heard about from England (SEE The Moos). Recently Japan has had its first couple of scares drivng beef business down. (SEE The Moos). This has caused a trading fiasco for Europe and Japan. Many countries are refusing to import foreign beef. The French are constantly deeming British beef unsafe while the Brits stuff themselves silly to prove that it's harmless. I don't think that the French will ever agree with the British... |
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| COW BREEDS Aryshire - Scottish. Red and white dairy cow. Black Angus - All black beef cow. Brahman - Indian. Black, red, white grey, and spotted dairy cows. Brown Swiss - Swiss Alps. Brown beef and dairy cow. Dexter - Irish. Black, smallest breed. Dutch Belted - Dutch. Black with a white belt. Guernsey - British. Brown and white dairy cow. Holstein - Dutch. Black and white dairy cows. Jersey - British. Light brown dairy cow. |
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| Experts Disagree on Future Death Toll of Mad Cow Disease Some people, like Dr. Jerome Huillard d'Aignaux, believe that roughly 100 people a year will die from mad cow disease. Other less optimistic experts predict one hundred thousand peple will die in coming decades. October 30. Update: Japan is slaughtering 5,129 innocent cows to fight the mad cow disease McDonald's Japan lowered profit expectations as the third mad cow case emerged in Japan. Beef Sales in Japan Faltering In Japan the beef business is failing. The people of Japan are afraid to eat beef beacuse of one mad cow case there. Despite an advertising campaign for beef, sales have fallen 50%, forcing restraunts to alter prices and menus. November 4. |
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| MOOORE COW SITES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| www.crazyforcows.com |
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| COWNTER | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A great, informative cow site with many links and pictures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| www.cowparade.net | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The official site concerning the famous Cow Parade that has toured through numerous cities and is currently travelling the world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Here is how to say 'moo' in 11 languages. ammuu - Finnish boo - Hungarian Go`eh - Hebrew meuh - French mo - Japanese mo - Norweigan mu - Italian muh - German muu - Swedish muuh - Danish muuu - Portuguese |
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| www.moocow.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A site with cow clip art and handy other graphics, like this new backround. Tons of great links and other lists for the beef lovers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My other site, a Simpsons site, is here. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| COW PICTURES MOOOOOOOOO....... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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