"Cow in Calf" by Seamus Heaney was written in 1972 and is included in his poetry collection "Wintering Out." The poem reflects themes of nature, fertility, and the cycles of life.

Same reason why a captain calls there boat a girl, or a person to call their car a girl its just the way we picture it animals are usually considered boys until the sex of the animal is known.

In the Bible, the fattened calf was considered a sign of a special occasion because it was reserved for celebrations or feasts. Its fattened state symbolized abundance and prosperity, making it suitable for important events like welcoming guests or honoring someone of significance.

Yes. Both sexes are of the same species, just different genders.

There can be several reasons why a cow may give birth prematurely. These include hormonal imbalances, infection or illness, poor nutrition, genetic factors, stress, and certain medications or treatments. It is important to consult a veterinarian to determine the specific cause and appropriate course of action.

The process of banding the testicles of a bull is called "castration." It is typically performed by tightly applying a rubber band around the base of each testicle, cutting off the blood supply. Over time, the testicles shrivel and eventually fall off. This procedure is commonly done for the purpose of population control or to manage certain behaviors in livestock. It is important to consult with a veterinarian or trained professional for guidance on how to properly perform this procedure.

A calf. If it's a male, it's a bull calf. If it's female, it's a heifer calf. Bull calves become steer calves if they are castrated.

A bull calf becomes a bull when he is weaned and reaches one year of age. Bulls are raised and used for breeding cows and heifers.

Steers are steers when they are fed and raised for beef. A steer can become an ox if he is trained at a young age to pull carts and wagons.

A heifer calf is no longer a heifer calf after she is weaned and becomes one year of age. She is a bred heifer when she is impregnated by a bull at 15 to 18 months of age, then a first-calf heifer when she calves. She becomes a cow after having her second calf.

Cows don't lay eggs, chickens do. However a cow's "eggs" or ovum "matures" in the cow's fallopian tube near the uterus which sits in wait for the sperm from the bull to fertilize or fuse with it.

Supposedly it is likely that she will. However, there are cows (and heifers) that aren't too keen about kicking off their own calf even if there's a new one on the way. Domestication can be blamed for this, mostly because in some females the natural mothering instincts have been selected less so because it's the humans that are going to be working to make sure newborn calves are going to survive instead of letting the cow do her job. This is especially apparent in dairy cows. It can be a problem in beef cows that do not have as strong of mothering instincts as other cows do. However, if a cow is selected to and allowed to raise her calf as she sees fit (provided she gets the proper nutrition to be able to raise a healthy calf), she will more than likely know when and how to wean her own calf.

It's just like knowing when to put the bull out with the cows: When they're not pregnant and are ready to be bred. Most often it will be the cow herself that will tell you when she is ready to be bred, but you have to judge when the right time would be to AI her. Ideally 45 to 60 days after calving is when you should consider getting her bred. AI needs to be performed 12 hours after her first signs of heat.

A calf does not stay in it's mother's stomach: the stomach is a place where feed is digested, not a place where a calf develops. A calf develops in his mothers WOMB or uterus, not the stomach. Thus, a calf is in his mother's womb for around 285 days.

You can consider weaning the calf when it's 6 months of age or more. How long after she's bred that you can wean the calf off her depends on how long after she calved you had her bred. If you had her bred about three and a half months (~80 days) after she calved, then you should consider weaning the calf two-and-a-half to three months after she's been bred.

There could be many reasons to this, and one is as likely as the other:

1) You're too impatient. Usually it takes an hour or two for a calf to be able to get up. Some calves are more vigorous than others, depending on their breeding.

2) The calf went through a tough birth, which it needs the time to recover

3) It's a stillborn calf (born dead)

4) It may have gotten up already and has laid back down to go to sleep

5) He hasn't nursed yet probably because his momma won't let him

6) The outside temperature is too hot

7) The outside temperature is too cold and the calf is too chilled to get up or has frozen feet

8) The calf could be injured and unable to get up.

You can find such pictures on the Internet, by doing a search on your favorite search engine for such words as "cow birthing" or "calving" or "cow[s] giving birth." Click on images and you should find the kind of pictures you are looking for.

Also, the cattle forum at Cattle-Today.com have several threads where members have posted pictures of cows giving birth. Such a thread can found in the related link section below.

Before its born its a fetus.

a dogie, just like in the "Rawhide" theme song

The short answer is, you don't; mature horses with broken weight-bearing leg bones do not heal well (or at all), are generally in excruciating amounts of pain and are often a danger to themselves or their handlers because they panic due to being restrained. However, a young foal (6 months old or younger) with a greenstick fracture or a fracture of a non-weight-bearing bone may be able to have the fracture reduced and tolerate corrective equipment (cast, splint, etc.) until the bone heals.

This is where the folk wisdom of shooting (ie, mercy killing) a horse with a broken leg comes from: there is little that can be done to keep the horse safe, comfortable and immobile for the months it would take for the bone to heal up enough to support the animal's weight.

I have seen this tried, on a six year old Arabian stallion with a compound open fracture of the proximal radius. He freaked out when put into a body sling to help support his weight and broke an equine vet resident's ribs. He had multiple surgeries to realign the bone fragments, put antibiotics into the break site to prevent bone infection, pull out dead bone fragments and put transverse supporting pins through the distal humerus. The owner spent over $10,000 on surgeries, X-rays, hospitalization and daily care, the break never healed and the stallion was eventually euthanized.

Limousin are selected to have long gestation periods, which is around 290 to 300 days (or more) in length.

Heifers don't lactate prior to their first calf. However, they may start lactating several weeks before giving birth, but they aren't lactating like a mature cow does.

A bull looks more masculine than cows do, often with a large muscular hump on the neck, and more muscular features around the shoulders and rump. Bulls have a broader forehead than cows do, which is sometimes curly, often signifying fertility. Where cows have udders, bulls have testicles that look much like human male testicles but are much larger. They also have a sheath where the penis is "stored," which is often covered in longer hair than the rest of their body. The sheath is located in the bottom-middle of their belly, and is where they also urinate from. This area is also called the navel.

Cows, on the other hand, are more feminine in their features in comparison to bulls. They are often smaller, with a less broader forehead, no hump on their shoulders (except for the Brahman breeds), and are less muscular in appearance. They do not urinate from the navel area like bulls do, but from their rear ends. Below their anus they have a bit of a pronounced vulva, which is where they urinate, concieve, and give birth to a newborn calf from. They also have udders, a bag of skin with four teats on each quarter, from where milk is developed and excreted by the newborn calf or by a milk machine.

A heifer calf will take 3 to 4 years to reach full maturity. By then she's called a cow. A Brahman heifer will most likely be ready to be bred by the time she's 15 months of age or older.

That all depends on when they have been bred. A heifer bred at 15 months of age would calve when she's 24 months old. If she's bred later than that, she will always calve 9 months later.

First of all, there is no such thing as an adult calf. A calf is no longer a calf after he/she is weaned. After a calf is weaned, she would be called a heifer. If it's a male, then he would be called a steer (if he's already been castrated) or a bull (if still intact or uncastrated). A heifer becomes a cow after she has had at least two calves. When she has her first calf, she is commonly referred to as a first-calf heifer.

A sexually mature female bovine that has had a calf is called a cow. A sexually mature female bovine that has not had a calf is called a heifer. Heifers are also those that are sexually immature (have not reached puberty), i.e., as newborn female calves.