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Did you know that, like humans, cows have best friends? This adorable Instagram post explains that cows are known to choose “best friends” and panic when separated from them. Although they are ...
Cows can live in herds that range widely in size, and in some commercial operations, herds may include up to 300 cows or more. In addition to bonding with the herd as a whole, cows will often pick one ...
Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health (R.L.P., G.A.B., K.E.S., D.R.K.), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at ...
Except for plantar warts, they are typically painless. They're caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) with 100 different strains of HPV causing different types of warts, often affecting children and ...
It was also true that the vast majority of bovine dehorning I did in practice was not on calves with small horn buds. Most owners used caustic paste, an electric (“hot iron”) dehorner, a tube dehorner ...
Enterotoxemia, also called “overeating disease” or “purple gut,” can cause the death of a young calf in as few as 12 hours, with signs that are not detectable until it is often too late. One reason ...
For sex sorted semen, the ability to shift the gender ratio of a calf crop comes from the fact that gender is determined by the sperm cell that fertilizes the egg. Sperm cells that result in a heifer ...