Cows and calves

Calves are born when a mother cow is lying down or standing up. The calf pops out and the calf try to stand up and gets milk from the mothers adder.

The farmer check if the mother and the calf is all right and the calf is taken away from its mother and is put in a shed where other calves are.

In the warm shed where calves are they are very hungry and greedy and want to have more milk.
When calves get older,they nibble on grass.  They eat lots of grass when they are growing and less milk and also need to drink lots of water.


Young calves have little tiny horns. There horns are removed or disbbuded by using hot iron and calves are given injection to prevent infections.


The calves will now not grow sharp dangerous horns and play with happy calves in the field. The farmers keep the best female calves to be the best milking cows. A milking cow is called a heifer. They are taken to be a dairy cow. Cows milk 20,000 liters a year of milk. The male cattle, well they get killed and make it for beef. They keep the best bulls for breeding.