{"id":2075,"date":"2017-02-17T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:28:03","slug":"how-do-cows-make-milk-a-morning-of-finding-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/2017\/02\/17\/how-do-cows-make-milk-a-morning-of-finding-out\/","title":{"rendered":"How do cows make milk? A morning of finding out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2076\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_34641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2076\" class=\" wp-image-2076\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/files\/2017\/02\/IMG_34641-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Anna asked Valerie, &quot;How do cows make milk?&quot;\" width=\"398\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This morning Anna asked Valerie a really interesting question. She knew that cows give us milk, but she wondered &#8220;How do cows make milk?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Quick as a flash, Valerie said &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure -Let&#8217;s just find out!&#8221; and googled a fabulous Countryfile program about cows. \u00a0They found out that cows have 3 stomachs and that they eat the grass, bring it up again, chew the cud and then it goes into another stomach. \u00a0We also found out that cows spend 14 hours a day sleeping and drink at least 5 litres of water a day. \u00a0Zach was also interested &#8211; while they were watching, there was a bit of noise round the computer and Zach said, &#8220;Shoosh &#8211; this is important!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They watched with real concentration \u00a0for quite a while then decided maybe a wee look at other farm animals would be good. \u00a0Sheep being sheared and a rabbit farm were also viewed with interest. \u00a0Maybe a nursery trip to a farm park this year would be a good option?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick as a flash, Valerie said &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure -Let&#8217;s just find out!&#8221; and googled a fabulous Countryfile program about cows. \u00a0They found out that cows have 3 stomachs and that they eat the grass, bring it up again, chew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/2017\/02\/17\/how-do-cows-make-milk-a-morning-of-finding-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/milngavienursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}