National Milk Day

I don't really like to drink milk. I'm ok with chocolate milk but regular milk... not so much. When we're in school I drink milk every other day and chocolate milk on the others because my parents said I should really drink white milk. My dad will ask me every once in a while to check, "Did you drink white milk or chocolate milk today?"

I do like ice cream. But I know that's not the same.

For National Milk Day I found a virtual tour of a dairy farm.

Some things I learned.

• There are over 40,000 dairy farms across America.

• There are 6 types of dairy cows: Holstein, Guernsey, Jersey, Brown Swiss, Milking Shorthorns and Ayrshire.

• Cows live in different types of houses.

• Cows don't just eat hay.

• A cow's stomach has four parts to break up food.

• Cows that are comfortable produce more milk

• They use technology to track every cow. It tracks how much milk they produced and when they were milked.

• Cows don't sweat.

• Dairy farms try to recycle as much as possible.