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This is a really awkward question, but I'll answer it as best as I can. Genetic traits for a cow should have good milking ability, good calving ease, good mothering ability, etc. If the calf is a heifer, she should be able to pass these on so that her calf will grow up to be a good mom too. If the calf is a bull, then she should be able to pass these genes on in a way so that his daughters will be good mothers as well, and he himself will be a good fertile bull enough to have good maternity characteristics for cow herds that are needing to be improved as far as maternal genetics is concerned.

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The most obvious is that a cow has a gestation period of 285 days or around 9 and a half months. The least obvious is that cows have caruncles on the wall of the uterus to which the placenta attaches to.

A cow's estrus period lasts 18 to 24 hours, with the whole estrous cycle lasting 21 days.

A cow will come back into heat after having a calf around 20 days after calving, but shouldn't be bred until 45 to 60 to 80-90 days after calving.

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