March 16, 2007

She don't hear so good

Terri at I Think ^(Link) Therefore I Err thought it was Friday Calf Blogging. The little calf is going to ruin the planet with greenhouse gases, but she sure is cute.

On the web Posted by jk at March 16, 2007 1:42 PM

Good cross-post JK. I took my best shot at naming the breed. We'll see how close I came.

Posted by: johngalt at March 16, 2007 3:22 PM

I'm guessing....cow.

(city folk!)

Posted by: jk at March 16, 2007 3:51 PM

Nope. "Cow" means "an adult female who has had more than two calves." (With a little help from wikipedia.)

"Breed" refers to the "domesticated subspecies or infrasubspecies of an animal." (again, wikipedia)

A fairly comprehensive bovine breed index can be seen pictorally here. (four links, by first letter of breed name, near bottom of page.)

'Sides, ain't you dun never gone ta the Stock Show boy?'

Posted by: johngalt at March 16, 2007 6:23 PM

Not until I was growed. My Grandmother left a Willa Caheresque existence to move to the city and we have not looked back for a couple of generations.

I love Atlantis farm and SugarChuck's spread, but I am city folk through and through. My siblings consider me bucolic for choosing a small town. Wrong it may be, I deserve points for "cow."

Posted by: jk at March 16, 2007 8:05 PM

And you get points for "cow". Thanks for the link!

Posted by: Terri at March 19, 2007 11:23 AM

Not too many points, since Terri says that she was there when, "he," was born indicating that he is a bull calf rather than a cow at all.

Also, since when does it take, "more than two calves," to be called a cow? I thought it was heifer only until the first calf was born. Anybody with some real bovine expertise to clear this up?

Posted by: dagny at March 19, 2007 4:13 PM

Heifer's get to have one calf. Once they have their second, it's to the cows.

Apparently she needs to be over a year of age too. I didn't realize that part!

http://www.allwords.com/word-heifer.html

Posted by: Terri at March 20, 2007 12:48 PM

Nice, thanks

We usually don't get eight comments around here without mentioning immigration. And I never once called it a "moo-cow" I'm getting better.

Posted by: jk at March 20, 2007 1:35 PM | What do you think? [8]