Yesterday we launched the 2nd Bovine Scholarship Workshop! Like with the first we designed the workshop so that it includes a small group of people so that we can have engagement throughout. But what is a workshop without some trivia? To get to know each other folks were thrown into groups of 4 and made to ponder some questions about bovines. Here are 10 of them:
Questions
- How many teeth does a cow have?
- How old was the oldest recorded cow?
- How can you determine how old a cow is?
- What year was milk pasteurized?
- Which country in Europe is constituently one of the top, if not the top exporter of live cattle in the world?
- Which breed of cow had the first herd book in the world?
- In industry language, what is “a springer”?
- Where might you find Ankole cows?
- When did cows first arrive in the Americas?
- Which city was historically known as the Great Bovine City of the World?
Answers
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- The oldest cow ever recorded was a Dremon Cow named ‘Big Bertha’ who died 3 months just before her 49th birthday on New Years Eve, 1993. She also holds the record for lifetime breeding as she produced 39 calves.
- The age of a cow can be determined by counting the rings on its horns. (And you can determine their age by their teeth!)
- Milk was pasteurized in 1886 by Louis Pasteur
- France (Brazil is the largest beef exporter but France one of the largest of live animal exports).
- Shorthorns (and second herd book ever) in 1822 called the Coates Herd Book
- A cow or heifer close to giving birth
- Ankole belong to the Sanga group, cows Indigenous to Africa. They are in east and Central Africa – primarily Uganda, the DRC, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
- On Christopher Columbus’ second voyage in 1493
- Chicago
