What is the growth of a cow?

Answer 1

Calf: newborn offspring that depends on milk and mother for growth. Heifer: female bovine that has not had a calf. First time heifer: a female that has given birth to her first offspring. Cow: female that has given birth second calf, she will remain a cow until the end of the life cycle. Yearling: can either be a female or a male that has reached a year old. Bull: sexually mature (at about 12 months of age) intact male bovine, he will remain a bull until either castration when he will be called a steer or until the end of his life cycle.

Answer 2

This depends on the sex and type of bovine you are referring to.

Steers, after weaned from their mothers, are sent to the backgrounder lot then the finisher lot before being slaughtered at around 18 to 24 months of age.

Heifers, after weaned from their dams, are put on a good-quality forage diet to grow. They reach sexual maturity at around 15 months of age, are bred at around the same age to calve out at 24 months of age. They reach adult maturity at 3 to 4 years of age where they become cows. Cows keep producing calves until they loose condition, get too mean to keep around, or are too old to be calving. They are then sold for slaughter, or die of health problems or old age.

Bulls, after weaned from their dams, are put on a similar diet as the heifers. THey reach sexual maturity at 9 to 13 months of age, where they are then started to be used for breeding heifers and cows. Bulls reach age of adult maturity at around 3 years of age. They keep breeding cows until they have figured out that humans are smaller and weaker than them where they loose respect, or until they loose libido or become infertile, where they are sold to another farm/ranch or sold to the slaughter plant.

Answer 3

The gestation period of a cow is about 280 days. A cow will grow about 34% in height each year, and about 56% in weight.