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From: cgm@idec.UUCP (Colin McKenzie)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: names of animal categories
Message-ID: <493@idec.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 06:39:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: idec.493
Posted: Tue Sep 24 06:39:19 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 05:39:43 EDT
References: <791@ihlpa.UUCP> <724@terak.UUCP>
Reply-To: cgm@idec.UUCP (Colin McKenzie)
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Organization: STC IDEC, Stevenage, UK
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Keywords: Horses, Cattle.
Summary: Two more.
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In article <724@terak.UUCP> suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett) writes/includes
from a previous posting:
>> I am interesting in knowing the English words for
>> various categories of animals.
>> 
>>  Generic       Adult      Adult     Castrated       Child     Child    Child
>> ingle;Plural   Male       Female      Male         Generic    Male     Female
>>
>> Horse ; Horses Stallion   Mare      Gelding          ???      Colt     Filly
>> 
>>  ??? ; Cattle  Bull       Cow       Ox <or> Steer  Calf        ???      ???
>  Cow?                                                                  Heifer
>> 
>> If you know any words that belong in the cells where I have marked `???',
>> please write to me and tell them to me.
>
>Also ranchers refer to male calves as "bull calf/ves"

I would use "Foal" for a young horse, and "Bullock" for a young Bull.  The term
"Ox" is the nearest thing to a generic singular for Cattle (Oxen).

Colin McKenzie.


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