Its dehydrated, this is where powdered milk comes from.
The best sign of birth is the 'waxing up' of the horse's teats. Dried milk will be seen at the ends of the teats. Birth is usually hours away.
Only four teats on a cow shouldn't be considered as "many." The advantage of having four quarters--and thus four teats--on a cow is so that the calf doesn't suckle one milk gland completely dry. It also allows the calf to come back for seconds to the other quarter[s] that are still full of milk.
This question is impossible to answer because the number of cows per farm differs, as well as number of cows on farm per day, since cows that were milked one day wouldn't be milked the next or vice versa because either they'd be culled and sold, come down with a sickness, be of the time to be dried up before calving, or start giving milk as heifers or (for older cows) after calving, etc.
No. A cow only has four teats, not 16 or 8 or 7 or whatever number you come up with.
This is a situation which I hope no one experiences. No, they do not.
you can have up to 2 cows on 1 acre of land. but better if you only have 1
a dried up one
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Somatic cell count is the total number of cells in the MILK. Somatic cells are made up of leukocytes (white blood cells) which are produced by the cows immune system to fight inflammation. Somatic cells can cause inflamation in the UDDER, causing mastitis. This is concering the DAIRY cow. However beefer cows may be prone to it during nursing as their calves are the only form of milk removal and they can also get infections in their teats with out any one noticing, as beefers aren't handled as much as dairy girls :o)
A cow should have four functional teats as maximum. She can, however, have two or more extra non-functional teats, none of which affect production nor milking ability. In dairy operations, though, these extra teats need to be removed so that the person with the milking machine doesn't hook up the vacuum pump to the wrong teat.
No. The udder develops during the time the heifer, after being bred at 15 months of age (breeding age), is pregnant with calf. The udder doesn't start developing until the third trimester, when it starts filling up with milk, and is ready until the calf is born and gets up and starts suckling.
Do not worry that one testicle will do the job for you just as well as two of them.