Free Animal Trivia Facts
This is the first page of animal trivia facts.
The first bird domesticated by man was the goose.
There are more chickens in the world
than people.
Chickens absorb vitamin-D through
their combs from sunshine.
The average hen will lay 227 eggs a year
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
A group of geese on the ground is gaggle, a group of geese in the
air is skein.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic
link between the two.
The female pig is the fastest
barnyard mama. Miss Piggy gestates in three months, three weeks, and
three days.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels
off several times a year with new growth.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' head enables it to see
all four feet at all times.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a
cows' knees can't bend properly to walk back down.
Lots of animal trivia.
A female swine, or a sow, will always have a even number of teats
or nipples, usually twelve.
A pig is a hog -- hog is a generic name for all swine -- but a hog
is not a pig. In the terminology of hog raising, a pig is a baby hog
less than ten weeks old. Source: "2201 Fascinating Facts"
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows have the
same pattern of spots.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
A pig's skin is thickest at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.
The "wild" horses of western North America are actually
feral, not wild.
Over the average lifespan of 11 years, a dog will cost you
$13,350.00.
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.
The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female
horse.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs --
fierce and agile herd animals that populated Asia, North Africa and
Europe -- and eotragus -- anantelope-like, Asian forest creature.
Horses cannot vomit.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of
age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows
have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the
recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the
abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in
1872.
Brown eggs come from hens with red feathers and red ear lobes; white
eggs come from hens with white feathers and white ear lobes. Shell color
is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality,
nutrients or flavor.