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Rarely you find reports on the news and in the media of a "cow" (or any bovine, really) that has an extra set of legs in addition to the four that are already there. This occurs when a cow has twins in her uterus, primarily maternal twins, and one of the twins either hasn't fully separated from the other, or that the other twin, usually the smaller, hasn't completely been reabsorbed into the other, resulting in these freak accidents of a calf being born with a couple extra set of appendages that obviously do not belong to that calf in the first place. Occasionally siamese calves have also been born, but usually these calves do not survive long after birth.
Normally though, a cow (and a bull, steer, heifer and calf) has four legs, not six. Cows are mammals, not insects, which means they are only inheritably and genetically capable of having four limbs, not six or, heaven forbid, even eight.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoNo, like most mammals cows normally have only four legs. However, developmental mutations can occur in which the front legs or the back legs are duplicated, resulting in the calf having six legs. If the calf is born alive, the legs may get in the calf's way and need to be surgically removed.
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∙ 12y agoThe easier they can support their weight with, not to mention be mobile with. It's very difficult for an animal on just its toes to stand on to balance on two legs. It's much easier and efficient to have weight supported on four legs rather than two or even three.
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∙ 12y agoNO, THEY HAVE TO SCOOT AROUND WITH THEIR HEADS
lol ^
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∙ 11y agoA Cow. All cattle have 4 leg unless deformed
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∙ 12y agoA normal bovine has four legs.
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∙ 8y ago4- one on each corner.
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8 cows (They all have 2 legs)
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There are 5 more crows than cows in a farmer's field there is a total of 52 legs on all of the animals How many crows and how many cows are in the field?
To find the answer that there are five more crows than cows in the farmer's field you need to know how many animal legs are in the field. The complete problem is, "there is a total of 52 legs of all of the animals. How many cows and how many crows are in the field?"
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stop eating then you wont have fat legs then you hungry cows!
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About 200
In a herd of cows there are 84 more legs than eyes How many cows are in the herd?
42.
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On a farm there are three-legged-cows and horses There are total of 59 heads and 211 legs How many three-legged-cows are on the farm?
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