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Any cow can have a calf per year, usually cows will be able to breed and produce calves until they are 7-10 years of age.
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If you mate a Hereford bull with horns to a female without horns if the female is homozygous for the no horns how many calves could be born without horns Why?
This is not a matter of how many it's a matter of chance in terms of percentages. In this example, any bull that is horned is ONLY homozygous, both phenotypically AND genotypically, for horned because the horned gene in cattle is recessive. The polled (non-horned) characteristic in cattle is a dominant trait both phenotypically and genotypically. So that means that any horned parent that breeds a homozygous polled parent will have offspring that are ALL polled. The only way you will get horned offspring is one of two ways: a horned sire mates with a horned dam, or, a hetero polled sire mates with a hetero polled dam (resulting in a much smaller chance than the first way). The question above is answered as followed:Homozygous Horned (Hereford) bull x Homozygous Polled female = 100% Polled offspring.I cannot use the Punnett square on this site, but if you use it on a piece of paper you will see that 100% of all offspring are polled. But notice that genotypically they are HETEROZYGOUSLY polled. This means they are polled physically, but in their genes their offspring have a 50% chance, should this offspring be bred to a horned partner, of having either horned offspring or polled offspring. If the offspring of the above cross were bred to a polled partner, the results would be 50% hetero polled and 50% homozygously polled. AND, if the above offspring were bred also to a hetero polled partner, you would get, phenotypically, 75% polled and 25% horned. Genotypically, this is 25% homozygously polled, 50% hetero polled, and 25% homozygously horned.See, the most a cow can have in her lifetime is 20 calves. There is no way that she can have 100 or so calves in her lifetime to see this example work out. Producers have to go by chances of an event happening when selectively breeding cattle, not how many.
How many cows live at the Doug the Dairy farm?
About 100-125 head cows and calves
How many children can a cow have?
None. Cows don't have children; they have calves.
Can Cows have horns like bulls?
Cows don't have horns. Bulls, or "male cows" do.Answer 2:The first answer above is NOT TRUE!! Firstly, 'cows' may colloquially refer to domesticated bovine in a gender-neutral manner, as it appears to in the structure of this question. Secondly, cows (as in female mature bovines) can have horns, though they are generally smaller than bulls of the same breed. Most of the modern breeds have been selected for not having horns, while those that do often have their horn buds removes as calves. Answer 3:Cows of those breeds that are known to be horned, which is pretty much every breed except the following: Angus/Red AngusGallowayBelted GallowayRed PollRed BrangusBrangusBritish WhiteSpeckle ParkPretty much all other breeds have cows AND bulls that have horns. Within those breeds that are historically known to have horns, there are also polled animals. But those polled animals you see of a particular breed like Gelbvieh, Charolais, Simmental, Hereford, Shorthorn, etc., does not mean that ALL of the animals of that breed are polled: bulls and cows can be polled, and bulls and cows can be horned. In the entire world, horned breeds outnumber polled breeds by 1:100, approximately.
How many young do cows produce at one time?
2-4 calves
Are cows born in spring?
goats are born in the spring that's what I think okay
How many calves can eat from one mother?
Usually one calf per cow. Occasionally one cow may have enough milk to feed two calves, but dairy nurse cows can have as many as four calves suckling from her.
What are the type of cowshed?
There are many kinds of cowsheds for all different kinds of cows. There are sheds for milking cows, for calves to drink milk, for pregnant cows, for quarantined cows, for multiple breeds to live together, for abandoned cows, for male cows, and much more.
What is meat of young cow?
there are many animals that their young are called calves. there are camel calves, cow calves, and i think orca whale babies are called calves. not sure about the last one. =)
How many calves can a cow produce in her lifetime?
A cow can have anywhere from one to 20 calves in her lifetime, depending on how productive she is and how long she is able to stay in the herd to produce those calves. On average, a cow will produce eight calves in her lifetime. Cows that are used for embryo transfer can produce up to twice as many calves in her life time than she can by her own doing. The record number of calves a cow has had in her lifetime is 39.
Are cows born with horns?
Not all cows do. Holsteins are naturally horned, so their horns need to be trimmed or cut before their horns get too big, which is when they are a few months old if horn buds can be seen or felt. However, other cows can be born polled or hornless and do not need to have their horns trimmed. The naturally polled breeds of cattle include Angus, Red Angus, Brangus, Red Brangus and Galloway. Horns is a recessive gene in cattle, so if a horned cow mates with a polled bull, the offspring will be polled. But mating horned with horned produces horned offspring, or hetero polled with hetero polled have a 25% chance of producing horned offspring.
How many babies can a bull have at once?
Bulls are males , they doNOT have babies, only cows have babies , theya re called calves.
