--- title: Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A farm is a great place to count, and every number tells a story. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hoo… # Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres Lesson 350 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/0/) — A farm is a great place to count, and every number tells a story. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/1/) — A cow stands on two big toes on each foot, with two little dewclaws higher up, while a horse runs on just one toe per foot, its hoof a giant toenail. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/2/) — Let a cow lick your hand and you will see she has no top front teeth at all, only a hard pad of gum: she wraps her tongue round the grass, pulls it against the pad and tears it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/3/) — A cow's stomach has four chambers, an alpaca's three. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/4/) — Count teats and you can guess family sizes: a ewe has two teats and twins are most common, while a sow has about fourteen for her litter of eight to twelve piglets, and each piglet keeps its own favourite teat. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/5/) — Count toes on a hen and you get four, three forward and one back, unless she is a fluffy Silkie with five. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/6/) — Numbers like these let you check cartoons, where animals often have the wrong number of everything. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/7/) — Cows have 32 teeth but none at the top front, only a hard pad of gum, and sheep and goats have the same pad. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/8/) — Cows, sheep, goats and pigs walk on two toes, called cloven hooves, with two smaller dewclaws higher up at the back, while a horse walks on one toe on each foot. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/9/) — A sow usually has about 8 to 12 piglets and around 14 teats, each piglet goes back to its own favourite teat, and a pig has four toes on each foot but walks on the middle two. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/10/) — A dairy goat gives about two to four litres of milk a day; goats do not eat tin cans, they just nibble the labels, and their rectangular pupils help them watch all around for danger. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/11/) — Duck eggs are larger with thicker shells and bigger yolks, some breeds like the Khaki Campbell lay nearly 300 a year, and ducks lay early in the morning, so they are kept in until then. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/12/) — A ewe has two teats, which is why twins are most common, and a sheep's fleece weighs a few kilograms each year. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/13/) — A study found sheep can recognise up to about 50 sheep faces and remember them for years. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/14/) — An adult horse has about 36 to 44 teeth that keep growing out slowly as they wear down, with a gap where the bit of a bridle sits, and vets can guess its age from their shape and wear. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/15/) — Most hens have four toes, three forward and one back to grip a perch, Silkies have five, and cockerels grow a sharp spur on the back of each leg. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/16/) — Alpacas and llamas have two toes on each foot with soft pads that do not damage the ground, their stomachs have three chambers while a cow's has four, and alpacas share one toilet pile in a field. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/17/) — A cow can live about 20 years, a horse about 25 to 30, a sheep about 10 to 12, a hen about 8 and a goat about 15, but most farm animals are sold or slaughtered long before they are old. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/18/) — A horse named Old Billy was reported to have lived to 62 in England in the 1800s. - ← previous: [A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/) - next →: [Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/351-teeth-baby-teeth-grown-up-teeth-and-wobbly-teeth/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)