On many operations, a calving shed or barn with a head-catch facility to use for cows or heifers that need help calving, handling facility with a loading chute, and a calf chute attached to that handling facility are commony found in cow-calf operations. Calf chutes are not needed if the ranch uses horses and ropes to brand, vaccinate, tag and castrate their calves.
Separate pens for cows calving, cows with bull calves, cows with heifer calves, bulls, culls, backgrounding, etc. are also found on a cow-calf operation.
If the cow-calf operations calve in the summer, a calving barn isn't really necessary.
The Udder is used to feed the newborn calf.
The name of a baby cow is a Calf
The baby is called a calf and mother is a cow. Together they are called a cow-calf pair, or "mom and baby."
Cow. Calf came after.
A "calf".
A newborn calf, a baby calf or just a calf.
The best thing you can do is to skin the dead calf of that beef cow's, and drape it over the orphan calf's body so that you trick the cow into thinking that that calf is hers. But this will only work if you have that cow's dead calf on hand and not if that cow doesn't have a calf or if you're wanting to put another calf on that cow. Other tricks include smearing cod liver oil or perfume or some other strong-smelling solution that's not poisonous to the cow nor calf over the cow's nose and all over the back and head of the calf, putting a dog in with the cow and the calf, etc.
A young cow, in the sense of it being female, is called a heifer. Heifers remain so until they have had a calf. However in the more general sense, a young "cow" is called a calf.
The mothering ability of a cow is a term that means how fast that cow (or even heifer) is able to bond with her calf and accept that calf once born. It is a term that encompasses the protective ability and maternal instincts that a cow should have upon having her calf, and is a term that is used in regards to beef breeding herds. A cow with strong mothering ability is a cow worth keeping, but a cow that is protective over her calf towards people is one to be very careful about.
The offspring of a cow is referred to as a calf. A heifer calf is a female calf, a bull calf is an intact male calf, and a steer calf is a castrated male calf (castrated after birth).
Fetal calf, fetus, fetus calf, or cow fetus.
The name of a baby cow is a calf (plural: calves)