New Zealanders have long endured jokes about being outnumbered 20 to-1 by sheep, but it seems the population has a new farm animal majority to worry about: cows. A record 5.8 million dairy cattle were counted in the year ended June 2009, Statistics New Zealand said that's more than one animal for each of the country's 4.3 million citizens. The dairy herd's expansion was due to the conversion of sheep and other farms to the more lucrative dairy industry and to the growth in the number of milking cows in existing herds. In 2009, it had fewer than eight sheep per person.
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