All you people who called it a calf are wrong, wrong I tell you, wrong. What baby animal is actually called a calf?
2006-07-07 07:22:22 · 18 answers · asked by patchesvz121 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
A Calf (plural calves) is the young of an animal. The term is mainly used for cattle, although whales, dolphins and elephants also have calves.
A cattle calf is a child of a cow and a bull and a calf that has lost its mother is referred to as a dogie. With respect to cattle calves, calf meat is called veal; fine calf skin used for pages in early codexes is called pergamon. The fourth stomach of slaughtered milk fed calves is the source of rennet. Calves feed from their mother's udders for a few weeks before eating solid food.
Both terms are right calf is the most used and really means male baby cow a heifer is a female baby cow.
2006-07-07 07:28:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A baby is called a calf. It can fall into different categories, like a feeder calf and later a steer, but it is a calf. A heifer is a female cow that has been allowed to mature past the age of two years and is able to reproduce. Males are divided into 2 categories, bulls and steers. And lets face it, steers dont usually live past two to three years.
2006-07-07 15:34:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A heifer is a full grown female cow. It's baby is called a calf. If you think I'm still wrong stop at a farmers home who has some cattle and ask him. He will tell you the same.
2006-07-07 14:30:29 · answer #3 · answered by chief_eagle_wing 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A baby cow is either a heifer calf or a bull calf. Heifer is a term for female cattle until they have finished their first lactation, at which point they are cows.
2006-07-08 07:39:07 · answer #4 · answered by JadeDragonMage 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A calf is only a heifer if is a girl calf. If it is a boy calf it is a baby bull. I believe Buffalos have calfs as do Moose and Elk, but Cows definitely have calfs. I think you might be mis-informed.
2006-07-07 14:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by qtee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a baby cow is called a calf and a female cow is called a heifer.
2006-07-07 14:27:34 · answer #6 · answered by Suzee M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, that is not wrong, it is a calf. I took a class where we had to learn all the names if different farm animals and terms for male, female, and babies. A heifer is a young female who hasnt begun producing milk.
2006-07-07 15:28:11 · answer #7 · answered by lita k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as a baby COW. There are baby CATTLE. They are called calves. There are bull calves(males) and heifer calves (females) and steers(castrated males.) Heifers are baby females, but cows are just mature bovine that have given birth.
2006-07-08 22:50:09 · answer #8 · answered by ekaty84 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A whale....and a heifer is a female baby cow by the way....would not apply to a male baby.
2006-07-07 14:26:03 · answer #9 · answered by pryde_kennels 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You do realize that your questions makes no sense, rephrase it. I work wtih cattle, and I have yet to hear anyone call our "baby cows" anything other than "calf." So, what on earth are you talking about? If it's a trick question, as I said, it makes absolutely no sense.
2006-07-07 14:27:35 · answer #10 · answered by Erin M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋