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heifer

[hef-er] / ˈhɛf ər /


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Instead a heifer, a young female cow, needs two years before she is able to produce a calf.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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

On that October morning in 2018, Ethan found his father dead in the heifer shed, his raincoat draped neatly over a door nearby.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

The only trouble was, this heifer Spot, as we called her, had been snaky wild from the day she was born.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

The bull and three heifers arrived fit and healthy at Calcourt Farms in Wernllwyd, Powys.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024

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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