do male dairy cows have udders and if they do why?

Question

I am talking about the black and white cows that are used for milk production, do themales have udders too? or just the females? asking because on the new cartoon back at the barnyard the boy cow has udders?

Answer 1

Male cows are bulls so NO!!!

Answer 2

Male Dairy Cows

Answer 3

The black and white cows you are talking about are called Holsteins, and were once called Friesians.

Male cattle, be they bull, or steer (neutered male cattle) have teets (nipples).

It's actually important to look at the teets on male animals, like cattle, goats, and sheep as they pass the quality or lack there-of onto their daughters.

Male animals can sometimes begin producing milk. This usually happens with male goats (even then it's rare). The male animal which produces milk should be culled from any breeding program and never allowed to breed again. Male animals that produce milk are usually passing on other genetic abnormalities.

Yes, a male dairy cow could concevably produce milk. It would be EXTREMELY rare, and the male animal would most likely be shipped off for slaughter.

Barnyard was a cartoon produced by the Nickelodeon company, for children. I cannot imagine what kind of a blacklash there would have been against the movie, if they drew the male cow character with testicals, or even where his penis should be.

I use to live in Ellensburg, WA. They made an anatomically correct sculpture of a bull sitting on a park bench, with one leg cross. His testicals hung down below the park bench. You could sit in the bench to either side of him and have your picture taken. People had such a HUGE fit about being able to see the ~gasp~ testicals on this statue, the sculptor had to make a cowboy hat, and put it in the bulls lap.

People are very weird (especially puritanical Americans) about seeing anatomically correct parts...even on animals!

A normal healthy bull would not have an udder, or produce milk. They would have tiny underdeveopled teets, the way a human man has small nipples, and no breasts.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 4

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do male dairy cows have udders and if they do why?
I am talking about the black and white cows that are used for milk production, do themales have udders too? or just the females? asking because on the new cartoon back at the barnyard the boy cow has udders?

Answer 5

a cow is a female bovine.
a bull is a male bovine.

Cows have udders (large mammary glands), to provide milk to their young (calf). Think breasts on human women. Bulls do not develop udders.

Unfortunately, many children only see bovies through cartoons. It is typically taboo to show an anatomically-correct character in a cartoon... So rather than put in the appropriate male bits, the artists decided to use the same design as for the female cows for the males. Who would notice, other than the farmer?

Answer 6

Male cows is a contradiction. If its a cow its a female. A male is a bull, or if its been neutered its a steer. There are mammary glands on males of all mammal species I know about. Almost all the time it is only the female that can secrete milk thru them however. They are superfluous on males. In exceptionally rare cases males of some species including us humans, males can lactate, but it is extraordinarily rare.

Answer 7

The female cow has udders and gives milk. Male cows are called bulls. They don't have udders, and they don't give milk.

Answer 8

hermafadite cows? the male Holstien cow is a bull..no udders...now the wampus cow is a different story...they have 2 legs shorter than the others from grazing on the side of a hill they may have udders

Answer 9

the udders are just like breasts in humans.

Male cows have something else between their legs.

some breeds of female cows also have horns

Answer 10

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Male bovines have small teats, but they never develop like a female's (the same as guys have nipples, but don't produce milk). Terminology for you- Bovine- Cattle Bull- Male bovine Steer- Fixed male bovine Heifer- Female under 2 years, hasn't calved Cow- Female, has calved, over 2 years old (they generally calve at 2)

Answer 11

Male cows are called bulls or steers, bulls with and steers without B@@S. Neither have udders.