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The Jersey is a British breed of small dairy cattle from Jersey, in the British Channel Islands. It is one of three Channel Island cattle breeds, the others being the Alderney – now extinct – and the Guernsey. The milk is high in butterfat and has a characteristic yellowish tinge. The Jersey adapts well to various climates and environments ...
Otis (voiced by Kevin James in the film and Chris Hardwick in the series) is a cow and the leader of the Barnyard. Despite being a steer, he has an udder. Pip (voiced by Jeff Garcia) is a barn mouse who speaks with a slight Mexican accent and Otis' best friend. He has a crush on Bessy, the sassy and sarcastic cow best friend of Abby, but she ...
Millie and Emma were two female Jersey cows cloned at the University of Tennessee in 2001. They were the first calves to be produced using standard cell-culturing techniques. In 2001, Brazil cloned their first heifer, Vitória. [22] Pampa, a Jersey calf, was the first animal cloned in Argentina (by the company Bio Sidus) in 2002. [23]
An "intact" (i.e., not castrated) adult male is called a bull. A father bull is called a sire with reference to his offspring. An adult female that has had a calf (or two, depending on regional usage) is a cow. Steers and heifers are also colloquially referred to as cows. A mother cow is called a dam with reference to her offspring.
In the Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World, a "freemartin" (mentioned in chapters 1, 3, 11 and 17) is a woman who has been deliberately made sterile by exposure to hormones during fetal development; in the book, government policy requires freemartins to constitute 70% of the female population. A side effect of this is some freemartin women ...
Welcome to the farm where cows, pigs and sheep are part of the climate curriculum. Corie Brown. September 15, 2024 at 6:00 AM. Student Michelle Chan with some of the farm's residents at Sotomayor ...
Polled livestock are livestock without horns in species which are normally horned. The term refers to both breeds and strains that are naturally polled through selective breeding and also to naturally horned animals that have been disbudded. [1] Natural polling occurs in cattle, yaks, water buffalo, and goats, and in these animals it affects ...
Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers. Cattle are commonly raised for meat, for dairy products, and for leather. As draft animals, they pull carts and farm implements.