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When the weather turns
cold and fields are
covered by snow,
farmers feed their
cattle indoors.
other teeth, in the upper back and lower jaws.
Coincidentally, adult human beings also have thirty-
two teeth.
Cows are ruminants. This means they chew cud,
which is partially processed food. A cow typically
spends eight hours a day grazing, eight hours chew-
ing cud, and eight hours resting and sleeping.
Cows have four stomach compartments: the
rumen, the reticulum, the omasum, and the aboma-
sum. When a cow eats, the partially ground-up food
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