on a cow
The teats on the udder.
The Udder.
The floor of the udder is just that- The floor of the udder. The shape of the udder is determined by the medial and lateral suspensatory ligaments. Poor ligaments mean a saggy, mastitis prone, misshapen udder.
Not exactly. A cow, when she is a heifer, starts developing mammary tissue a few weeks before having her first calf (where she is actually called a first-calf heifer not a cow), and retains that udder throughout her life. A cow doesn't just all of a sudden not have an udder before giving birth or suddenly have an udder after giving birth--it doesn't work like that. Once she has an udder, she keeps that udder until she dies. Besides, a cow is a female mature bovine that has already had one or two calves and thus already has an udder. A heifer, on the other hand, is a female bovine that doesn't have a fully developed udder, not until she is close to calving (if she's been bred at the right time).
I believe it is colostrum, her first milk with most of the nutrients.
A complex system of ligaments holds the udder to the abdomen.
When the cow's udder is full and heavy, it needs to be milked.
Cows only have one "breast," and that is the udder.
The udder will only swell, the cow is dropping her milk into the milk cisterns in the udder for the calf to suckle.
Generally, udder treatments are done using a teat cannula...the medication is infused into the affected quadrant(s) of the udder by sliding the cannula into the udder through the openings where milk would normally pass out during the suckling process and the medication would be pushed into the udder via syringe.
The udder, just like in a cow. The udder is stationed in the same area as a cow's, only there are just two teats, not four, on that udder.
A cow only has one udder, with four teats for each quarter of the udder.