Farm Animals for Kids Learn all about these fun animals

laughs farm animals for kids have you ever visited farm if so you probably know that there are lots of interesting animals that can live there and they are probably going to be different than your average house pet today we are going to talk all about farm animals and what they do most farm animals live on farm farm is an area of land that is used to grow crops and raise animals to produce food like chickens and eggs or cows and milk farm animals are different from house pets because most of them have important jobs to do that keep the farm running wow that's farmtastic let's jump into our imaginary tractor and take trip around the farm and learn about some of the animals that you might find cows one kind of animal you might find on farm are cows baby cow is called calf cows are very large and eat about 25 pounds of food per day that is lot of food to compare the amount they eat to humans the average adult human eats about three to four pounds of food per day talk about huge difference cows need lots of space to walk around which is why Farms are great place for them to live most dairy farms have more than 1 000 cows whoa that is lot of Cows Farmers sell the cow's milk to dairies and then dairies turn the milk into ice cream cheese and cartons of milk chickens next up are chickens chickens are another common farm animal baby chickens are called ticks they're so cute fun fact some chickens can produce up to 300 eggs year is another interesting fact chickens were not always found in America but today there are more chickens than people in the United States many scientists think the first chickens came here over 500 years ago unlike cows chickens do not need as much space to move around and in some towns people keep chickens in their backyards as pets and collect their eggs that person might even be you sheep do you know what baby sheep is called it is lamb sheep and Lambs can also live on farm their thick wool can be used to make clothing once year sheep are sheared which means that they get super short haircut Farmers shave off most of sheep's wolves and then sell it to companies that make clothing cool right Some Farms have horses people raise horses to work on farms and sometimes they raise horses to race in some cases ranchers or Cowboys use horses to help them move cows to new places people even like to ride horses for fun baby horse is called pony and here is an interesting fact about horses like chickens there were no horses in America until about 600 years ago there are many other kinds of animals that might live on farm pigs donkeys mules Ducks goats and rabbits can also live on farm even dogs and cats sometimes if you could choose one farm animal as your favorite which would you choose okay let's pull this tractor over and see what cool facts we remember about farm animals true or false one kind of animal you might find on farm is an alligator false but that would be quite sight to see fill in the blank cows are milked at special kind of farm called blank Farm Dairy what do farmers shave off of sheep to sell to make clothes wool excellent job fabulous farmers farm animals are pretty special we need farm animals to help give us food and other important things like wool lot of the work done on farms could not be done without the help of farm animals so the next time you see Cow Horse or chicken you can remember all of the cool facts you have learned and share them with your friends hope you had fun learning with us visit us at learnbrite.org for thousands of free resources and TurnKey solutions for teachers and homeschoolers