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A fresh cow is a dairy term for a cow (or a first-calf heifer in few regions) who has recently given birth, or "freshened." The adjective applying to cattle in general is usually bovine. The terms bull, cow and calf are also used by extension to denote the sex or age of other large animals, including whales, hippopotamus, camels, elk and elephants.
Cows produce milk until three weeks before birth. [103] Over the last fifty years, dairy farming has become more intensive to increase the yield of milk produced by each cow. The Holstein-Friesian is the breed of dairy cow most common in the UK, Europe and the United States. It has been bred selectively to produce the highest yields of milk of ...
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This is a list of individual bovines by name. This list includes buffalo, cattle, bulls, cows and calves. This list includes buffalo, cattle, bulls, cows and calves. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, a graded up Limousin, after three generations for females and four generations for males, is known (confusingly with the legal European definition) as purebred, which is then eligible for recording in the respective countries' herd books alongside Fullblood and French Pure Limousins.
Bos (from Latin bōs: cow, ox, bull) is a genus of bovines, which includes, among others, wild and domestic cattle.. Bos is often divided into four subgenera: Bos, Bibos, Novibos, and Poephagus, but including these last three divisions within the genus Bos without including Bison is believed to be paraphyletic by many workers on the classification of the genus since the 1980s.
A freemartin or free-martin (sometimes martin heifer) is an infertile cow with masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries. [1] Phenotypically, the animal appears female, but various aspects of female reproductive development are altered due to acquisition of anti-Müllerian hormone from the male twin. [2]
Cika cattle is characterised by high milk yield [6] and is primarily used as a dairy cow (for production of milk and dairy products, such as cheese, quark and yogurt), with some individuals being bred as beef cows. In some cases adult female cows of this breed are used for raising calves, that are meant to be slaughtered for obtaining meat.