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There are 6 main types for dairy: Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Brown Swiss, Milking Shorthorn, and Ayrshire. But there are other uncommon breeds of milk cows like Dutch Belted, Canadienne, Randall, Lineback, Milking Devon, etc.

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there are so many cows in the world is it impossible to count?!?!?

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According to google, there is an estimate of about  1,460,000,000 cows alive on earth.

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I think there is more than 3 billion milk cows.

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It is estimated that there are around 1.3 billion cattle in the world.

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That all depends on the farm. Some farms are small enough to only house 10 cows; others are very big and house over 10,000 cows.

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