Cow: Quick Facts

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Hereford cow and calf

Diagram comparing the digestive tracts of a cow and a chicken, highlighting the cow's four stomach chambers (rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum) and the chicken's three stomach chambers (crop, proventriculus, gizzard), with labeled esophagus and small intestine in each animal.

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Holstein-Friesian cow

Brown Swiss cow

Milking Shorthorn cow.

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