The cows come into the barn during bad weather or to rest in the shade. Bedded areas are called free stalls.
Cows are social animals.
They will follow each other into and out of the barn. Dairy cows use their tails like giant flyswatters. The cows pictured here are holstein cows. Some other dairy breeds of cattle are Jersey, Guersey, Ayrshire, and Brown Swiss. There are around 81,000 dairy cows in North Carolina.