Down on the Farm
A look at animals found amongst the mud, manure, and
corn fields of the American farm.

• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
• 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.
• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
• George Washington's favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon's favorite was Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis.
• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
• A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
• The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
• A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots..
• The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.