My team and I learned that family units are split up and calves are taken from mothers and moved to other parks.
Rose and Kent take great pride in the care they give to their calves.
The excess solution wasn't wiped off, so when the tan took effect, dark brown drip marks appeared all over her calves.
Before the drought, the Smiths owned about 150 cows and their calves and as many as 100 yearlings.
Corporate backgrounding farms take in 50,000 calves a year and lose an average of 50 to death.
The calves are snatched out and the "jimption is socked to 'em," as the boys express it.
We have shot several of the bulls, but our object is to secure their calves and cows.
His chief pleasure consisted in teaching pigs and calves to jump.
Have a look at the wrists and the calves of the legs and the stomach.
Ducks, and chickens, and pigs, and calves would have gone to make up a German feast this night.
fleshy part of the lower leg, early 14c., from Old Norse kalfi, source unknown; possibly from the same Germanic root as calf (n.1).
"young cow," Old English cealf (Anglian cælf) "young cow," from West Germanic *kalbam (cf. Middle Dutch calf, Old Norse kalfr, German Kalb, Gothic kalbo), perhaps from PIE *gelb(h)-, from root *gel- "to swell," hence, "womb, fetus, young of an animal." Elliptical sense of "leather made from the skin of a calf" is from 1727. Used of icebergs that break off from glaciers from 1818.
fleshy part of the lower leg, early 14c., from Old Norse kalfi, source unknown; possibly from the same Germanic root as calf (n.1).
Old English cealfian, from cealf "calf" (see calf (n.1)). Of icebergs, 1837. Related: Calved; calving.
calf (kāf)
n. pl. calves (kāvz)
The fleshy, muscular back part of the human leg between the knee and ankle, formed chiefly by the bellies of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles.
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