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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 ...
Barnyard was released by Paramount Home Entertainment on DVD on December 12, 2006, in separate widescreen and full-screen versions. [5] The DVD includes the alternate opening, a "Barnyard Bop" music video, a comic book creator, and a commentary by Steve Oedekerk and Paul Marshal.
This involves formulating their diet to provide ideal nutrition and housing the cows in a confinement system such as free stall or tie stall. These cows are housed indoors throughout their lactation and may be put to pasture during their 60-day dry period before ideally calving again. Free stall-style barns involve cattle loosely housed where ...
In response to the conditions of the environment, some mammals, such as bat delay the implantation due to the cold temperature in winter. [23] Another factor is due to the shortage of food stocks during winter as the insects are being driven away and as the result, bat hibernate in pregnant condition.
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 ...
STORY: Dozens of visitors gathered on the farm to witness the annual "cow release" - a marker of the start of spring in the northern European nation.Despite some initial trepidation when the barn ...
Here's what candy debris looks like before it gets mixed in with feed. Source: Paul Octavious "At first I was offended by the thought," of cows eating candy, Janeen Hall Cole, a dairy farmer at ...
A gestation crate, also known as a sow stall, is a metal enclosure in which a farmed sow used for breeding may be kept during pregnancy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A standard crate measures 6.6 ft x 2.0 ft (2 m x 60 cm).