Never mind baby pigeons, did anyone ever see a baby cow with little udders? All calves seem to be male, why is this?
Viv
Wrong forum, but…
Did you ever see a baby girl (human) born with developed breasts? Same thing.
Shoving this into General Questions, although it’s been nicely answered.
your humble TubaDiva
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Well, yeah. Lots of little girls (and boys) have breast buds at birth because of influence from mom’s estrogen. Even some cases of lactation with newborns.
I saw a baby tuba once. It looked sorta like a cornet. My brother played an adolescent tuba called a baritone horn. He showed me a picture of a mutation called a euphonium. It looked like a baritone, but it had sprouted an extra bell.
Back to the Original Question, a young cow is a heifer. Actually, a female of any age that hasn’t borne a calf is also a heifer. Baby bulls that have been relieved of their testicles are steers. If the castration isn’t done until the fellow is grown, he’s called a bullock. If he’s allowed to keep 'em, of course, he’s a bull. What to call them in general? My Aunt Ivy, who raised a lot of them, called them “beeves.”
In all this talk of testiclular tinkering, you may have wondered, and I’ll now tell you; No, beeves do not need to be circumcised ;j to become Kosher beef.