Now as connoisseurs of female gams will attest, female calves, like the rest of the female form, can range from slim to curvy. |
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Suckler cows with calves will also benefit from early turnout provided the fields are sheltered and dry and you take steps to prevent tetany. |
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Roland has a wonderful selection of cows and calves and cows in calf and there are enquiries from far and wide. |
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He rears the bull calves to a year-and-a-half and the heifer calves to two-year-olds. |
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There will be special arrangements for the movement of young calves, bulls, breeding pigs and probably sheep in the autumn. |
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He rears 100 bull beef calves, runs a flock of 300 ewes and produces 3,000 turkeys for the Christmas market. |
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They raise their own replacement heifers and sell their bull calves to another organic farmer nearby. |
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There were one hundred and thirty lots in all from bull calves, and heifer calves. |
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The pokey bull calves of dairy cows are slaughtered at 16 to 18 weeks for veal. |
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On display will be the cream of the 2003 bull and heifer calves that have qualified at various regional shows throughout the summer. |
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Newborn buffalo calves, like bovine calves, can succumb in large numbers to viruses, bacteria, and poor nutrition. |
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On April 28 this year, the same cow delivered three Charolais bull calves, any one of which would be an acceptable size single. |
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This will lead to a continuing build-up of store animals and calves on many farms resulting in labour, feed and housing difficulties. |
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Cows, calves and bull were docile and showed no signs of fear or excitement at the presence of the group. |
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The guide explained they add rennet, an enzyme from the stomach of calves, which causes the milk to curdle. |
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Standard size domestic donkeys are useful for halter-breaking young calves and foals. |
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Gray whale calves are born in the winter after a gestation period of about 13.5 months. |
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Whale calves also surface in the ring of open water, right next to their mothers. |
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Discover how mother dolphins pass along the secrets of survival to their young, and watch calves as they test their skills at work and at play. |
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The cows and calves may be killed later if it appears they won't survive until freeze-up. |
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The other payback is the obvious reduction in weaning stress experienced by calves already eating creep. |
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No creep feed was provided, and bull calves were surgically castrated at birth. |
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The feed fortifier and enhancer may be mixed with any liquid feed to be fed to preruminant calves. |
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On these walks we would visit the cowsheds, which were a delight to us, for often there would be calves frolicking. |
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Thus, there is an economic incentive to dehorn horned calves or to raise polled calves. |
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During my final year, an exciting innovation was intravenous fluid therapy for calves with acute diarrhoea. |
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A local fisho said he saw up to ten mother humpbacks with calves in the space of a few hours. |
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Her silky hair was a platinum blonde and she had it up in two small buns on the top of her head, locks of it running down to her calves. |
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Children can handle and feed new born calves, piglets, goats, lambs, chicks and rabbits. |
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In a pioneering study there, solar-powered electric fences are used to surround maternity pastures where expensive, pedigree calves are born. |
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Bulging biceps, svelte calves and women-attracting pectorals may be just a few injections away. |
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Proper supplementation with fat may also help newborn calves withstand cold temperatures out on the range. |
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The soft, nutritious substance found in the internal cavities of animal bones, especially the shin bones of oxen and calves. |
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However, this and other previous research indicates calves are still suckling. |
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They suckle their calves for eighteen months, carry them on their backs when they are tired and gently guide them along with their flippers. |
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This workout targets the quadriceps, hamstrings, buttocks, upper hips, inner thighs and calves. |
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And if they wear their six studs there are very sore calves and feet after it. |
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Now the European Union is in the process of overhauling many practices involving farm animals like hens, calves and pigs. |
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Within each stratum, calves were randomly assigned to one of two finishing systems. |
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This gave farmers an insight into the type of calves to expect from the various bulls on different type cows. |
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Male calves were castrated either at birth, at time of initial vaccination, or at weaning. |
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A total of 192 heifer calves were purchased during a 2-to 3-wk period from local stockyards. |
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We have observed feed efficiencies of 0.22 to 0.56 when feeding protein supplements to stocker calves on bermudagrass pastures during the summer. |
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Indeed the Lairig an Laoigh can be translated as the pass of the stirks, or calves. |
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Those calves include the offspring of the cow that tested positive for the disease. |
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At the end of 125 days feeding trial, six days conventional digestibility trial was conducted for stall-fed calves. |
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They also take care of calves and clean, sterilize, and decorate calabashes. |
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Strong and flexible calves play an important stabilizing role in exercises like the squat, the deadlift and the clean. |
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There are also goats, sheep, calves, budgies, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, ducks, owls. |
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As the bus meanders on, ducks waddle across the golf course and red cows and calves amble along the roads. |
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Caribou bull cow and two calves skirt the ridge above our camp lake during breakfast. |
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Their calves are taken away shortly after birth, many of whom are then condemned to veal crates. |
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Most calves are killed when they are older for beef, but about one million a year are killed as calves for veal. |
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Now the farm has dairy and beef cattle, veal calves, pigs and sheep as well as cereal crops, pulses and vegetables. |
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Hygiene is extremely important around calving, as newborn calves are very vulnerable in the first two to three days after birth. |
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Most calves in Britain are cross-breds with blood from both native and continental breeds. |
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The soleus also extend further down the lower legs, so muscling them up can appear to lengthen high calves somewhat. |
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He bought six calves at market in Skipton and sold them in York before his cheque bounced. |
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They milk the cows, feed the calves, slop the pigs, and check the roosting hens before sitting down to tea in their own kitchen. |
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Gossip was exchanged and embellished, births, deaths and marriages were discussed and the price of bonhams and dropped calves were dissected. |
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The boy was already sprawled inside, his pants twisted up, exposing skinny, muscleless calves. |
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For starters, I had a medallion of goose and duck foie gras embedded in a muscat and calves foot jelly, and Abi has a warm goats cheese salad. |
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Various cows and calves were slaughtered after the animals were inspected by a team from the council and a veterinarian. |
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Then calves are dosed and moved to clean pasture such as silage aftergrass. |
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My therapist then massaged my calves, feet and ankles using an anti-stress body oil, before removing the mud pack with the hot towels again. |
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The brick, gambrel-roof barn features ground-floor pens for calves and plenty of space for hay storage in the mow. |
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At the age of 12 months, a healthy male deer can sire 2 to 3 calves from a female in nine months. |
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As is typical of cow herds, the sires were not in contact with their calves. |
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Changes in thermal demand in restrictively fed, unadapted, young calves were studied during the first days after transportation. |
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In contrast, zoo elephants are typically found in groups of two, and two-thirds of female calves are taken from their mothers at an early age. |
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Shallow water may allow mothers and calves to detect and avoid predatory sharks. |
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A farmer buying some replacement breeding ewes or a new tup could not then move his store lambs or suckler calves. |
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Our beef calves and our cull sows are still sold on a conventional pricing system. |
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In June, he culled his older cows and sold them in pairs with their calves. |
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The winner was John Lee, who was very cut, with shredded legs and superb calves. |
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Julius, a 53-year-old Nigerian with flecks of grey hair, lifted up his tracksuit trouser to show the slashed skin around his calves. |
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How tough would it be to do a great dive and start if your glutes, thighs, hamstrings and calves were tight? |
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The ability to tolerate high-fibre enables it to convert the grass into milk for its calves. |
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Diphtheroid necrotic inflammation of the larynx in calves in its advanced stage mostly requires surgical therapy. |
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Two calves, one a Charolais-cross, the other an Aberdeen Angus, arrived at Murton Park earlier this week. |
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Because they prey on calves and sheep, dingoes and wild dogs are viewed as a threat to livestock. |
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Now repeatedly raise and lower your heels for a strong stretch of the calves and Achilles tendons. |
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In 1883, Hulke became the recipient of a prestigious national prize for his herd of Jerseys milkers, made up of Jenny and her calves. |
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According to Van Putten early weaned calves will suck anything that resembles a teat. |
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He pointed out that up to 600,000 male calves and weanlings are traded annually without having drawn a premium. |
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Delayed aftergrass will result in calves grazing worminfected pastures for longer. |
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Our estimate has some 75500 calves and weanlings being sold out of Kerry alone. |
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I thought it was one of the calves but when I shone my torch on it I saw that it was the double wheels of a tractor. |
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We found that placing a bale rack inside the tank keeps cows and calves out of the tank. |
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Animal carcass weights also indicate advances, with the increase in size of lambs and calves the best indicators of productivity improvements. |
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The vitamin-D-deficient calves had increased basal metabolic rates and decreased blood calcium and phosphorus. |
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I get dressed and, ignoring the pain in my calves and thighs, I cycle into town. |
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The extremely practical and funky knee length side zips with popper storm flaps allow ankles to be aired and calves exposed. |
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The next morning, I reached down to stroke my sleek calves and recoiled in horror when my fingers encountered a disgusting prickliness. |
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Cows won't milk as well and calves can't easily pick the good grass out of the old growth. |
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He has played 36 minutes and grabbed 21 rebounds despite cramps knifing through his calves. |
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Some claimed that they attacked young calves and worried the bigger animals. |
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Cows and calves graze on orchardgrass and alfalfa pastures at Moonstone Farm. |
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It was hard work, I was getting crotchety, and tonight the blisters on my calves are as big as gobstoppers. |
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To make the movement more challenging, hold a small exercise ball between your thighs, knees or calves. |
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He mates them to a Charolais bull and keeps the calves until they are yearlings. |
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Erickson et al. conducted two feeding trials to evaluate the P requirements of steers brought into the feedlot as yearlings or calves. |
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A snap of cold and wet weather will give rise to pneumonia in calves so stay vigilant. |
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A typical March farm scene includes calved cows, young calves, yearling cattle and older finishing cattle. |
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Viewers can see sheep making use of nature's larder for feeding and medicinal purposes, calves playing tag and hens soaking up the sunshine. |
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However, the reps go up dramatically for endurance-oriented muscles such as calves and abs. |
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However, if you're already lean, chances are you simply have muscular calves. |
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He stood between her legs and casually played with her feet and calves, holding her ankles, running his fingertips up the backs of her legs. |
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Ilse tried not to concentrate on that, but try as she might, the delicate wrists and ankles, shapely calves and round arms spoke to her. |
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They tattoo their hands, arms, calves, ankles and I even saw one girl with a tattoo on her neck. |
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The bank sloped gradually and the water tickled her ankles, calves, thighs, and then waist with its warm tongue. |
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He removed her shoes and socks, running his hands over the warm skin on her ankles and calves. |
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For example, dietary protein restriction reduced Zn absorption and retention in calves. |
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The ratio of P and Ca retention to protein gain for all animals older than the newborn calves was then plotted against animal age. |
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Your gluteus maximus, quadriceps, hamstrings and calves work to bend your knee and lift your body upward and lower it back to the start. |
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Also, heifers that conceive earlier in their first breeding season calve earlier and wean heavier calves. |
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The squat strengthens all of the major muscles of the lower body, including the gluteals, hamstrings, quadriceps and calves. |
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Common procedures for beef calves include branding, castration and dehorning. |
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Out past a cruising leopard seal, the distant Marr Glacier calves another berg, the boom echoing across the water. |
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Selling calves at weaning provided the most variation in the decision-making outcomes. |
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Are cows which provide colostrum for your calves tested for bovine leukosis? |
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The ao dai consists of a long mandarin-collared shirt that extends to the calves, slit at both sides to the waist. |
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I would choose pizza on my night, but the following night, his selection would be calves liver and onions. |
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The pain or ache is commonly situated in the front of the thighs, in the calves, and behind the knees. |
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Front-pointing up endless snow slopes or carrying absurdly heavy loads can leave your calves screaming for mercy. |
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Although we bought calves locally for rearing, we sometimes bought them from a dealer in Cheshire. |
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Moose calves with dangling wet umbilical cords struggle to keep up with their long-legged fast-moving mothers. |
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It's exercise, sure, but it is as demanding on the eyes and the brain as it is on the back, thighs and calves. |
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When calves are fed milk it is funnelled through the oesophageal groove to the true stomach, bypassing the rumen. |
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Three groups of 20 calves found with suspect identifications or without tags over the past three days are the focus of the investigation. |
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I think having stimulated the females to come in season, we actually had two calves this year. |
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Exercise in the heat can bring on heat cramps, which usually affect tired muscles in the calves, thighs and shoulders. |
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He is also nursing young calves ensuring that they have adequate heat, feed and sanitary conditions. |
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While squats and leg presses don't directly target the calves, they do rely on them for stability during heavier lifts. |
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The wind whipped at her skirt pulling the material taut across her calves and thighs, outlining her shape as the marble of a statue. |
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But still, calves or no calves, the demands of balancing an education with extracurricular responsibilities are taxing indeed. |
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After processing, equal numbers of calves were randomly assigned to one of the three preconditioning treatments. |
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It is best that calves suckle from all 4 teats, but make sure at least 2 teats are suckled. |
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The devotees were also treated for their excruciating pain in their shoulders, neck, back, thighs, knees, calves, ankle and foot. |
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The horns might be considered masculine, but that is how cows protected their calves from prairie wolves, so people left them on. |
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As it is sometimes difficult to rear young calves it is a good thing to keep them clean and dry, whitewashing the calf hulls two or three times during the winter. |
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In all 12 heifers and 12 bull calves have qualified for the final. |
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He wears a black Under Armour T-shirt, red basketball shorts, sneakers, and white socks hiked up to his calves. |
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My team and I learned that family units are split up and calves are taken from mothers and moved to other parks. |
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Before the drought, the Smiths owned about 150 cows and their calves and as many as 100 yearlings. |
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In eastern Africa, they mostly hunt Thomson's gazelles, but they will also attack calves, warthogs, zebras, impalas, and the young of large antelopes such as the gnu. |
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The live trade involves the export of over 200,000 head of calves and weanlings to Europe and up to 70,000 head of livestock to international markets. |
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An Orkney farmer scooped one of the prizes at the prestigious Black Beauty Bonanza show of Aberdeen-Angus calves and yearlings, in Aberdeenshire, on Saturday. |
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At Ennis Mart, 600 yearlings and 400 calves met a very strong trade. |
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At one end are the highly specialized producers of yearling calves. |
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The number of calves born in 1999 and 2000 was found to be low following two feeding seasons that were shortened by anomalously cold winters with extensive ice coverage. |
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And he claims to have lost 37 calves during the winter, when he could not be present during complicated deliveries, because he was calving elsewhere. |
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The glacier frequently calves huge chunks of ice into the Copper River. |
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In the Northern Hemisphere, because of the thickness of glacial ice and the way it calves, most icebergs are of the more dramatically shaped kinds. |
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In addition to breeding calves and colts, Glenn earns a living taking clients out for guided hunts and stalking the occasional problem cat for local ranchers. |
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He sat down on the edge of a flame duct scalloped out of the concrete pad, feeling the sun-heated wall against his calves as his legs dangled, the chain scraping between them. |
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Rotavirus is responsible for up to half of all scours in calves. |
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Cows can be vaccinated against rotavirus and the other organisms that cause scour, passing the protection on to their calves via colostrum and milk. |
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On May 10 the men found fourteen bison with two new calves, but the animals fled from the intruders, who could not keep up with them in the slushy snow. |
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As these heifers do not have to be in calf, there is bound to be a drop in the number of quality beef suckler calves produced and a reduction in the supply of our best beef. |
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They form a matriarchy, a herd of females led by the dominant matriarch, who all band together to raise and protect and teach each other and their young calves. |
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For main course I had calves liver, nice and pink, on haggis mash with caramelised shallots and boudin blanc with a beef jus, a splendid medley of complementary flavours. |
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Gombo gave Rodgers a light flick on the calves from his snakeskin lash. |
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At Pelican Creek, the men unhitched the dogs, rolled up their pants, took off their boots, picked up the toboggan with the calves, and waded across. |
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Shooties look great with knee-length skirts and dresses, and they're still a perfect choice for anybody whose calves are too fat for knee-length boots. |
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The farmer would either cull the vulnerable calves or, if they are valuable for other reasons, treat them for parasites and then sell the meat in the nonorganic market. |
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Her calves, soles, toes, palms, and fingertips were dark red and mottled. |
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Large, high-gaining sires produce calves with large birth weights. |
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The heifer calves were from crossbred cows sired by Eimousin bulls. |
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I was wearing a simple black, slip-on dress that stopped around my calves. |
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Expert ropers caught the calves with a loop around their hind legs and dragged them out of the herd to the fires where the branding irons were heating. |
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When working calves, include a seated version in your routine, which allows you to hit the deeper muscle layers of the soleus buried beneath the gastrocnemius. |
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Cows are bred, calves are produced and animals are sold off the farm. |
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Farm owner Jeff Marshall used the heart massage and mouth-to-mouth techniques he had learnt to save newborn calves and lambs to bring the youngster back to life. |
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The series includes episodes about newborn calves, an ailing horse, an orphaned lamb, a llama with a broken leg and an old dog with a brain tumour. |
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The sky is broodingly grey over the humid downs of the Barkly Tableland as a mob of well-fed white Brahman cows and calves quietly shift across the green expanse. |
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We sometimes keep the bull calves and fatten them as young bulls. |
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Now it is time to divide the herd among the three districts, the total number of reindeer for each area being made up of a combination of bulls, females and calves. |
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When he started losing calves, he switched to a different spot. |
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Over three-fourths of the beef calves produced in the US will be used as stocker calves to graze pastures prior to entering the feedlot for finishing. |
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Compensatory gain during the postweaning stocker phase can be anticipated if calves were reared on endophyte-infected tall fescue pastures prior to weaning. |
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Bradley was unconscious and had stopped breathing before Mr Marshall performed the heart massage and mouth-to-mouth techniques he uses to save his calves. |
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Six men opened the suite with the McKenzie of Seaforth strathspey, requiring the alternate beating of the calves by feet shod in ghillies and the arms en haut. |
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For suckler cows with calves, the biggest risk now is grass tetany. |
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The results obtained in this study suggest that the activity of enzymes involved in the metabolism of sulphadimidine increased with the age of calves. |
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After lots of sups of Lucozade and massaging of calves we're off again. |
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This involves giving the first dose to calves at 3 weeks after turnout and repeat dosing every 3 weeks for a 12 week period where the white or yellow drenches are used. |
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And then finally cultural factors, the Norse were derived from a Norwegian society that was identified with pastoralism, and particularly valued calves. |
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She glanced up when she had nearly finished, and saw his eyes pinned on her calves, the shadows of which could be seen through the filmy linen shift she wore. |
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Alternatively, however, some buyers may associate the increased fleshiness with higher nutrition and health and then pay a price premium for preconditioned calves. |
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Every muscle was defined, from his corded neck to his knotted calves. |
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Fortunately, the problem only proved to be cramp in both calves. |
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Cows soon to freshen or with calves should have access to a magnesium-containing mineral supplement to help prevent grass tetany on pasture in the spring. |
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Maybe you are, in fact, one of the few and proud that does train calves, diligently pounding out set after grueling set of calf raises and donkey presses. |
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He is also heading up an effort in a campaign in Arizona to ban the confinement of calves in veal grates and breeding pigs in small gestative crates. |
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Off the Crozet Islands, mothers push their calves onto the beach, waiting to pull the youngster back if needed. |
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The pharmacokinetics and effects of meloxicam, gabapentin, and flunixin in postweaning dairy calves following dehorning with local anesthesia. |
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Froufrou was sired by Casimir and has been used extensively at Whinfell Park, with calves on the ground. |
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Throughout February and March, the first to leave the lagoons are males and females without new calves. |
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Use of the word maverick spread among cowboys and came to apply to unbranded calves found wandering alone. |
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Females lactate for approximately seven months following birth, at which point calves are weaned and maternal care begins to decrease. |
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Mating probably takes place in the summer, with calves being born in the following year, between June and September. |
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Do stair raises by standing tippytoe on the edge of a stair step, then lowering and raising your heels until your calves start to burn. |
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Influence of parasitism on plasma concentrations of growth hormone, somatomedin-C, and somatomedin binding proteins in calves. |
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Composition of growth of Holstein calves fed milk replacer from birth to 105-kilogram body weight. |
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A study to compare circulating flunixin, meloxicam and gabapentin concentrations with prostaglandin E2 levels in calves undergoing dehorning. |
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Briefly, the calves were restrained and sedated 20 min prior to the procedure and placed in left-lateral recumbency. |
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And the Kemps are eagerly awaiting next spring's batch of calves, which will include a number of calves imported from Canada as embryos. |
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By contrast, low-vitality calves, especially dystocial calves, are unable to withstand adverse climatic conditions. |
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After separation from their mothers, Holstein calves showed such a cognitive bias indicative of low mood. |
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Most calves are born in the summer, though some calving occurs throughout the year. |
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The first elk to step into the clear was a raghorn bull, followed by two calves and then a mature cow. |
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Later in the day, Ruby finally allows the calves to nuzzle the newborn and say hello. |
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Vaccinated and unvaccinated high-risk calves were shipped from Arkansas to a New Mexico State University feedlot in Clayton. |
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An outbreak of Akabane-induced abnormalities in calves after agistment in an endemic region. |
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Females and calves spend about three quarters of their time foraging and a quarter of their time socializing. |
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Anancy the trickster spider figured in these stories, as did ghosts and rolling calves, rum, molasses and sugar. |
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Although I was not unfond of pigs, they were not the same as the little calves. |
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He told her that in his childhood he had been a simple shepherd in the Taurida, pasturing other people's sheep and calves. |
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Dairy calves are usually raised separately from their mothers, although most are raised in a calf hutch that is bigger than a veal crate. |
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Just a week ago, Wal-Mart called on suppliers to stop keeping calves in veal crates and hogs in gestation crates. |
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All feeder calves wintered and sold in the spring are stockers, whether they go to grass or to the feedlot. |
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The calves should be castrated before 8 to 10 months old to prevent a staggy appearance and a lower price. |
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The stretches and exercises here all target the lower leg and will keep the muscles in your calves strong. |
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But I can take the calves and learn them to work and give milk, and learn them to become domesticated and useful. |
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In calves, the frequency of agonistic behavior decreases as space allowance increases, but this does not occur for changes in group size. |
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A cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market. |
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Heifer and bull calves are equally attached to their mothers in the first few months of life. |
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Lactation proceeds for 19 to 42 months, but calves, rarely, may suckle up to 13 years. |
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Under natural conditions, calves stay with their mother until weaning at 8 to 11 months. |
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There are a number of other sounds made by cattle, including calves bawling, and bulls bellowing. |
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Such vaccines were made in the skin of calves and sheep, and seeds and stocks were passaged in tissues of calves, sheep, and rabbits. |
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Most young male offspring of dairy cows are sold for veal, and may be referred to as veal calves. |
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Newborn calves acquire passive immunity by ingestion and absorption of antibodies present in colostrum. |
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Subsequently, a randomized field trial was completed in a commercial farm with preweaned calves. |
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While calorized feeds for poultry were being developed, scientists were also looking into an improved milk replacer for calves. |
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Non-O157 Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli isolated from diarrhoeic calves in Argentina. |
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Calf survival varies according to the season of birth, with calves born during the dry season having higher survival rates. |
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Older skeletons showed the most extensive pitting, whereas calves showed no damage. |
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Females give birth every four to twenty years, and care for the calves for more than a decade. |
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Researchers identify individual right whales, document whale behavior, monitor new calves, and respond to entangled whales. |
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Mothers in such a group may sometimes leave their calves with one female while they forage and drink elsewhere. |
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This is significantly below the annual average of 20 calves per year over the last decade. |
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Sure, his calves are a little weak, but the rest of his physique is so overwhelming, he should place high. |
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Mothers with calves will gather in nursery herds, moving or browsing together. |
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In 2001, after the zooplankton populations greatly recovered, 30 calves were born. |
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Social cohesion in these groups is maintained by the bonds formed between calves. |
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Giraffes appear to select mates of the same coat type, which are imprinted on them as calves. |
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Golden eagles prey on calves and are the most prolific hunter on calving grounds. |
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On some dairies, in order for this to take place, the calves are fed milk replacer, a substitute for the whole milk produced by the cow. |
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Manatees emit a wide range of sounds used in communication, especially between cows and their calves. |
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Large cattle backgrounders, however, prefer to buy 500-pound calves in 90-head truckloads. |
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All red deer calves are born spotted, as is common with many deer species, and lose their spots by the end of summer. |
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Three calves died moments after their birth, but two survived for several years. |
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After two weeks, calves are able to join the herd and are fully weaned after two months. |
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Light grey calves are virtually blubberless when expelled from the womb, but still weigh a ton. Mothers move in close to land for nursing. |
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This more widely separates lactating females from their calves, increasing nutritional stress for the young and lower reproductive rates. |
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Both the orca and the polar bear are also most likely to prey on walrus calves. |
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This lower fat content in turn causes a slower growth rate among calves and a longer nursing investment for their mothers. |
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When mixed with other individuals, cloned calves from the same donor form subgroups, indicating that kin discrimination occurs and may be a basis of grouping behaviour. |
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Female calves born on a dairy farm will typically be raised as replacement stock to take the place of older cows that are no longer sufficiently productive. |
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Supplementation of calves with stabilized orthosilicic acid. |
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Georgetown University professor Janet Mann argues the strong personal behavior among male calves is about bond formation and benefits the species in an evolutionary context. |
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Wandering the irradiated wastelands of Fallout 3 has a slimming effect, and parkouring about in Prince of Persia or Mirror's Edge tones your calves, we're told. |
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Thus, in a pastured herd, any calves or herd bulls usually are clearly distinguishable from the cows due to distinctively different sizes and clear anatomical differences. |
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Other than the few bulls needed for breeding, the vast majority of male cattle are castrated as calves and slaughtered for meat before the age of three years. |
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She thinks of them as golden calves, but they were a gentle brown. |
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Generally mild Irish winters seem to have meant they were never put in roofed shelters in winter, although young calves might spend a period in the house. |
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These first whales to arrive are usually pregnant mothers looking for the protection of the lagoons to bear their calves, along with single females seeking mates. |
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To unknot the calves, try kneeling with a skinny roller lying on top of the calf muscle length-wise, sit back on it, and move gently from side to side. |
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The local, seasonal presence of large herds of migratory wildebeests and zebras reduces predation pressure on giraffe calves and increases their survival probability. |
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Bolger tightrope Despite my gracelessness though, I feel calm and like I've had a good work out and the following day, my calves and core feel nicely stretched out. |
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Soon the formications and muscular debility returned, not alone, but accompanied with painful cramps and startlings in the feet and calves of the legs. |
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You can watch the farmer plough and harvest, collect the eggs, and you may even get the chance to pitch in by helping to bottle-feed some calves or milk a cow. |
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Mazurka 13th, now owned by Mr. Streator, at ten years old Is dam of eight living calves at single births, and we don't know a cow of her age that can outshow her. |
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Likewise, calves may suckle for only a month Females become sexually mature when they are four years old, while males become mature at four or five years. |
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It was assumed that the woman deserved a share of the lambs and calves. |
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Until then, the calves will feed on the mother's fatty milk. |
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These whales have also been observed babysitting calves that are not their own, with one study showing that many of those doing the babysitting are males. |
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He said that this is the case because it compares swimming pools to the wild ocean and extrapolates the survival rates of calves to life expectancy in adulthood. |
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In fact about 300,000 cattle are killed each year with farmyard diseases such as mastitis and foot rot, as well as thousands of bull calves considered not commercially viable. |
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Welsh farmers earned their reward at Bishop's Castle and District Quality Cattle Association's sale of autumn and spring-born suckled calves and weanlings. |
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This, for the most part, does not take into account the large number of calves injured or left to starve after their mothers had been killed in the breeding lagoons. |
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Often, a few mothers linger with their young calves well into May. |
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One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties. |
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Those 10 minutes are spent visually appraising the calves, replenishing the feeder with milk replacer and checking through the computer programme for any non-drinkers. |
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There is evidence that humpback whales will defend against or attack killer whales who are attacking either humpback calves or juveniles as well as members of other species. |
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Newborn calves are roughly the length of their mother's head. |
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Some large shark species, such as the tiger shark, the dusky shark, the great white shark and the bull shark, prey on the bottlenose dolphin, especially calves. |
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After 45 days, the calves are able to graze and forage but continue suckling until the following autumn when they become independent from their mothers. |
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Some dairies even pasteurize extra milk from the main herd to feed calves. |
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Focussed exercise brought out the muscularity in her calves. |
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