There are so many wonderful animals out there, but for the purpose of this site I am focusing in this part any ways of the most abused animals on EARTH. All animals deserve our love and respect. Most people do not know truly facts about cows, chickens, pigs, etc. I am just shedding some love and light of some of those who tend to be overlooked and people just see as food. By learning more about them we can help to connect with them better. I invite everyone to go and visit sanctuaries and to learn more about them and to get to know the animals from themselves. Just as you would with your dogs and cats at home.
• Chickens slurp grass like spaghetti when living in their natural environment chickens will spend the day foraging for bugs and slurping down fresh blades of grass
• Chickens love dust baths. It may not sound very appealing to you but chickens take so much pleasure in digging a shallow pit in the dirt and spreading their wings and rolling around in it. Dust baths help chickens maintain a proper feather insulation and ward off parasites.
• Chickens have complex communication with specific meanings. When you spend enough time around chickens you’ll start to understand many different vocalizations from calling their youngsters to alerting others whereabouts of food.
• Chickens like to play. When giving enough space chickens will run, jump, spa and even sunbathe.
• Chickens like to talk to their unborn babies. In a natural setting a mother hen will cluck to her chicks before they have even hatched and they will churp back to her and to each other through their shells.
• Chickens are a lot more clever than you think. Recent studies have shown that chickens are intelligent animals with many attributes similar to that of primates. They are able to solve complex problems, understand cause and effect, pass on knowledge, demonstrate self control and worry about the future.
• Chickens have excellent memories. They are able to recognize and remember more than 100 different individuals including humans
• Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than humans.
• Cows don’t have four stomachs. They have just one stomach with four chambers- rumen, reliculum, amasum, and abamasum. This allows them to digest tough plant matter that would normally be indigestible.
• Cows are red-green colourblind
• Cows make various sounds. Moos aren’t the only sound cows make. Calves make a sound called bowling while bulls bellow.
• Cows have long lifespans. Cows can live more than 20 years ( although ). If they have horns you can guess their age by counting the number of rings.
• Cows build close relationships. Like humans cows (cattle) form close friendships and choose to spend much of their time with 2-4 preferred individuals. They also hold grudges for years and may dislike particular individuals.
• Cows get excited when they solve problems. When faced with a challenge of finding out how to open a door to reach food their heartbeat went up, their brainwaves showed excitement and some even jumped into the air
• Cows are devotional mothers and are known to walk for miles to find their calves
•Cows can walk up a flight of stairs, but once they are there they can’t walk back down. Their knees don’t bend the right way.
• Cows drink the equivalent of a bathtub of water each day.
• Cows spots is equivalent to human fingerprints, no two cows have the same set of spots.
• Cows sleep and average of four hours each day.
• Cows pregnancies lasts the same as humans 9 months.
• Cattle have excellent sense of smell they can detect odour up to 5 miles away. Also hear both low and high frequency sounds beyond human capabilities.
• Cows are extremely curious creatures and will investigate everything.
• Cows show excitement when they are let out after long periods of confinement.
• Goats have accents. Researchers from queen Mary University of London found that goats accents change as they grow older and move into different groups.
• Goats stand on cow.s Apparently goats do stand on cows and practically everything else too including on people. Goats after all originated from the Zagros Mountains in Anatolia where they had to climb rocks and cliffs and they can hold their balance in the most precarious places including trees.
• Goats have rectangular pupils. Their eyes have horizontal slits, which give them deep peripheral vision and allow them to monitor predators in a broad area. Horses, cows, and other hoofed animals have similar pupils but goats irises are usually pale so they show up more prominently and are more able to scare people.
• Baby goats are called kids. Since the 1200's the young of a goat has been called a kid and only in 1599 was the extended meaning to a a “child” first recorded.
• Goats can yell like a man and bark or say “what”. Their calls are called bleating.
• Each goat kid has a unique call and along with its scent that is how its mother recognizes it from birth- not by sight.
• Goats discovered coffee. Apparently in Ethiopia a goat herd saw goats behaving more actively and energetically after eating from a particular bush. He then tried it himself and felt uplifted, awake and full of energy.
• Kids can follow their mothers almost immediately after being born. They are very close to their mothers and are weaned after around 6 months.
Pigs
• Pigs are extremely intelligent, they are known to be smarter then your 3 year old child and even more intelligent than dogs.
• Pigs are very peaceful animals, they rarely show aggression. With the exception when a mother sow feels her offspring is threatened.
• Pigs are extremely social animals. They form close bonds with other individuals and love close contact and lying down together.
• Pigs are very clean they like to keep their toilet away from from where they lie down and eat. Newborn piglets also will leave their nest to go to the toilet even within hours after being born
• Pigs have saved lives. There are numerous stories of pigs that have saved the lives of humans. A pig called Pru pulled her owner out of a muddy bog and another Priscilla save a young boy from drowning.
• Pigs snuggle close to one another and prefer to sleep nose to nose. They dream much as humans do in their natural surroundings. Pigs spend hours playing, sunbathing, and exploring. People who run animal sanctuaries for farmed animals often report that pigs like humans enjoy listening to music, playing with soccer balls, and getting massages.
• Newborn piglets learn to run to their mothers voices. They are also able to recognize there name by 2 weeks old.
• Sows sing to their young while nursing.
• Pigs do not have sweat glands, so they do not sweat. In order to keep cool they need access to mud or water.
• Sheep have very good memories. They can remember at least 50 individuals sheep and humans for years. They do this by using a similar neural process and part of the brain that humans use to remember.
• Sheep are intelligent. Contrary to popular misconception sheep are extremely intelligent animals capable of problem solving. They are considered to have similar IQ level to cattle and are nearly as cleaver as pigs.
• Sheep communicated different emotions. Like various other species including humans, sheep make different vocalizations to communicate different emotions. They also display and recognize emotions by facial expressions.
• Sheep are known to self-medicate when they have some illnesses. They will eat specific plants when ill that can cure them.
• Female sheep (ewes) are very caring mothers and form deep bonds with their lambs that can recognize them by their call (bleat) whey they wander too far away.
• Sheep were sacred to Egyptians. Egyptians believed that sheep were sacred. They even had them mummified when they died just like humans
• Sheep cannot right themselves from certain positions, therefore if you see a sheep on his back please give him or her some assistance as sheep cannot get themselves upright from this position and if left unaided they will eventually die, within an hour.
• Individual turkeys have unique voices, this is how they recognize one another.
• Turkeys are intelligent and sensitive animals that are highly social. They create lasting social bands with each other and are very affectionate similar to dogs.
• Turkeys have outstanding geography skills. They have the ability to learn the precise details of an area over 1000 acres in size.
• Baby turkeys (poults) flock with their mother all year. Although wild turkeys roost in the trees, as poults are unable to fly for the first couple of weeks of their lives. The mother stays with them at ground level to keep them safe and warm until they are strong enough to roost up in the safety of the trees.
• Male turkeys are substantially larger than females and his feathers have areas of red, purple, green , copper, bronze and gold iridescence. Female feathers are duller overall in shades of brown and gray.
• The area of bare skin on a turkey’s throat and head vary in colour depending on its level of excitement and stress. When excited a male turkeys head turns blue, when ready to fight it turns red.
• The Turkey is believed to have been sacred in ancient Mexican culture. The Mayans, Aztecs and Toltecs referred to the turkey as the “great xolotl’ , viewing them as jewelled birds.
• Like peacocks, male turkeys puff up their bodies and spread their feathers to attract a mate.
Resources & credits for facts.
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One Kind
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Care 2
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The Pig Site
Some of the credits are not possible as can not remember where I got from my deepest apologizes
