heifer
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Speaking at the Clogher Valley Show in County Tyrone, Leader said she had one heifer "that was taken away 18 months ago".
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
He had already lost a heifer with weak lungs and feared future reproductive problems.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
His brother, David Workman, killed in a fall off a cliff as he rode a mule in the dark in search of a lost heifer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Boyle Reservoir, a black heifer lying on her side in the dusty brown earth heaved a tiny head sticky with amniotic fluid from her birth canal.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
In the elementary school spelling bee when you intentionally misspelled heifer, he almost had a cow.
From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander
Because ranchers faced feed costs that consumed the value of their livestock, they sold off their herds or accelerated the slaughter of cows and heifers, creating a temporary surplus that compromised future supply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
The team started with a group of 20 Holstein dairy heifers ranging from three to six months old, who had previous experience in the cattle chute area and with human handling.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
The number of heifers, or young female cows, in U.S. feedlots as of Oct.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2023
With the temperature in the mid-90s, the 52-year-old Texan found the bull — whose nickname reflects his owner’s affection for the late Rev. Billy Graham — and 11 heifers cooling under a canopy of trees.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
Pa would not kill either of his calves, because they were heifers and would grow into cows.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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