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  2. Dairy cattle - Wikipedia

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    Cows are at their most fertile between 60 and 80 days after calving. Cows remaining "open" (not with calf) after this period become increasingly difficult to breed, which may be due to poor health. Failure to expel the afterbirth from a previous pregnancy, luteal cysts, or metritis, an infection of the uterus, are common causes of infertility

  3. Dry cow - Wikipedia

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    Research shows that milk production may be negatively impacted if cows do not acquire enough protein during their dry phase. [13] If farms are unable to provide separate diets for far-off and close-up cows, producers may choose to manage their diets with a shorter dry period and a negative DCAD (dietary cation-anion difference) ration diet.

  4. Freemartin - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the term "freemartin" is uncertain: speculations include that "free" may indicate "willing" (referring to the freemartin's willingness to work) or "exempt from reproduction" (referring to its sterility, or to a farmer's decision to not bother trying to breed a freemartin, or both), or that it may be derived from a Flemish word for a cow which gives no milk and/or has ceased to ...

  5. List of cattle terminology - Wikipedia

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    An "intact" (i.e., not castrated) adult male is called a bull. A father bull is called a sire with reference to his offspring, such as in the herd book or purebred records. A female bovine that has not yet had a calf is known as a heifer. An adult female that has had her first calf (or second calf, depending upon regional usage) is called a cow ...

  6. Farmers really do feed their cows Skittles -- here's why - AOL

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    An article from Maurice Eastridge, a professor in the department of animal sciences at Ohio State University, noted that having between 3% to 5% sugar in a dairy cow's diet can help with proper ...

  7. Cattle - Wikipedia

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    Bulls are larger than cows of the same breed by up to a few hundred kilograms. British Hereford cows, for example, weigh 600–800 kg (1,300–1,800 lb), while the bulls weigh 1,000–1,200 kg (2,200–2,600 lb). [7] Before 1790, beef cattle averaged only 160 kg (350 lb) net. Thereafter, weights climbed steadily.

  8. Doctors Explain The Surprising Reason Birth Control Is Less ...

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    Early studies are showing that inadvertent exposure in the first trimester of pregnancy was not associated with birth defects, but at the moment it is not recommended to take a GLP-1 during pregnancy.

  9. “Oxen Are Just Employed Cows”: People Share 40 ... - AOL

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    Oxen are just employed cows, not a whole separate species of bovine. Image credits: InfernalOrgasm #13. To be tea, it has to come from the tea plant. Black, white, green, oolong teas are all the ...