Cow
The cow is the female of a domestic Mammifère ruminant, generally carrying horn S on the face, pertaining to the species Bos taurus of the family of the Bovidé S. It is the female of the Taureau. A heifer is a cow which did not calve.
The average weight of an adult cow varies according to the race from 500 to 900 kg.
Breeding
It is high either for its Lait (races dairy), or for the production of Viande (beef breeds or “nursing”), or for both (mixed races). Whereas the males are intended for butchery, the females are generally intended to ensure the renewal of the herd or the production of milk.
The milch cows in end of a career are normally put at the fattening and are sent to the slaughter-house (cull cows). They provide in France the essence of what is marketed under the denomination “beef”. France counts today more than 20 million cows.
Culture
See also: crowned Cow
In India, most of the population traditionally regards the cows as crowned animals. They are free to walk in the streets and until on the highways. They do not have a vocation to be eaten.
The sourate 2 of the Coran is called the Cow (Al-Baqarah). The Torah refers to the rite of the russet-red Vache .
The cow in the language
- Proverb: Shoemaker, stick to your last, and the cows will be well kept .
- Expressions:
- to rain like cow which pisses ;
- died with the cows symbolized by three points tattooed on the skin of former prisoners
Formerly, the word cow familiarly indicated a policeman);
- to be cow with somebody (to be very severe, even unjust with somebody);
- thin period of cow (period of financial problems).
- bloody (adverb) (very, much);
- bastard adjectival qualifying something or somebody which takes to you as a traitor;
- cash cow , (nobody or institution from which one benefits);
- good-bye calf, cow, pig, brooded , finished the beautiful dreams, phrases drawn from the fable of the Fountain the dairy one and the pot with milk ;
- the tough love (indicates a violent and impassioned love);
- Technical: a cow (zone of landing of help for parapente and hang glider; often pre);
Urban legend
It is false to believe that the cows can predict certain weather disturbances. Contrary to the popular beliefs, a cow laid down on the ground is only one demonstration of tiredness.
See too
Internal bonds
cow|cow- crowned Cow
- Milk, Milking machine, Milk industry
- Bovin S
- Élevage
- Ferme
- Liste of the bovine races
- Liste of the bovine races of France
- Boîte with cow
- You have two cows
- the marine cows indicate either a race of Bovidae, or the Lamantin S.
External bonds
- cows of the world
- Directory of the bovine races
- All races of cows of France