heifer

[ UK /hˈɛfɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈhaɪfɝ, ˈhɛfɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. young cow
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How To Use heifer In A Sentence

  • Carcass revenue increased for heavier carcasses and steers had a higher value relative to heifers.
  • He rears the bull calves to a year-and-a-half and the heifer calves to two-year-olds.
  • Successful first breeding and calving of the heifer is only part of a successful replacement strategy.
  • Then Zeus changed the maiden into a heifer, to save her from the anger of Here, but presently Here learned that the heifer was the maiden whom she hated, and she went to Zeus, and said, Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • − 92-95% of heifer calves born to twin to a bull − Female organs develop, but are male-like − Commonly seen with enlarged vulva, and long vulva hairs; but some born with no external clues − Virtually always sterile Genetic Upsets − Most common is "hermaphroditism" − Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Rodney R. Land of Land Dairy in Mayo Florida sold a dairy cow for food with 0.2 parts per million (ppm) of sulfamethazine in her liver tissue and Michael D. Martin of Martin Feed Lot in Harrisburg, Illinois sold a beef heifer for food with a walloping 38.855 ppm of sulfamethazine in her liver as well as 0.1781 ppm of flunixin, say other letters. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • There was very little difference in the top prices being paid for beef bullocks and heifers at Kilkenny Mart where there were over 1,200 head on offer.
  • Never come between an excitable cow/heifer and her calf and never ever turn your back on a nervous animal in a small space.
  • Male calves resulting from these matings express a higher incidence of dystocia than heifer calves because male calves are gestated longer and have considerably larger birthweights.
  • They raise their own replacement heifers and sell their bull calves to another organic farmer nearby.
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