Talk:Cattle/Archive 1

message: Hey, anyone--I see that breed pages are titled in one of three ways:
Breedname (cattle), Breedname cattle, or simply Breedname. One might think we ought to be consistent.  Thoughts on which is the best? (I'm inclined to go for one of the first 2, and use the 3rd as a redirect...?  E.g., "holstein" would link to or redirect to Holstein cattle."   Elf | Talk 01:01, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Titles for breed articles?

message: Anyone interested in improving the content of the agricultural information on Wikipedia, here is your opportunity.  Livestock has been nominated as a Collaboration of the Week. H2O 23:51, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll keep it in mind but dog stuff tends to keep me pretty busy except when I'm slumming. :-)  Elf | Talk 00:13, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Livestock - Collaboration of the Week

message: Here is small list of links where cattle is called Bos primigenius taurus. 
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Regards.--Wiglaf 11:21, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Maybe this will prevent others from making the mistake I just made: Neat really is an archaic word for cattle, not Meat.  Elf | Talk 20:46, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Neat vs Meat

message: Where I live, the term "beeves" (multiple beef cattle) and its singular "beef" are still used by ranchers and people in the processing business. While I agree that they're uncommon, and falling out of favor, they're not gone yet, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to leave "beeves" out and mark "beef" as completely obsolete. I didn't change this in the main article, though, as I'd like to hear some other opinions. And, as a side note, the word "heifer" absolutely means "female that hasn't given birth to its first calf" around here. I see that Kat disagrees, but doesn't this at least rate a parenthetical? Gary D Robson 16:45, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obsolete terminology? 

message: I suggest we place sounds of cattle in the article; maybe that showing the sounds of the different cattle kinds (i.e. american cows vs. brahman).  Thodin 02:55, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sounds 

message: Someone please include the fact that they have none in more objective or scientific terms than I possess. =)Yeago 06:40, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top Front Teeth of cattle. 

message: Wouldn't it be nice to see some statistics on cattle population (worldwide, and perhaps in selected countries as well)? Has anybody got some figures they can share? (Somewhere I'm sure the US government has a public domain source we can raid...) QuartierLatin 1968 21:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: For example, according to the USDA, there were 94,882,000 cattle including calves in 2004 in the US. Can it be I'm the only person who'd be interested in this? Please Wikipedia, don't let me down, you've always been an infallible geek magnet till now! QuartierLatin 1968 21:41, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

text: Um, it won't let you down if you add what you want yourself.  You seem to have found some good info.  Liblamb 03:23, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Tip of the iceberg! World population figures, that's what I'm after! QuartierLatin 1968 22:16, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cattle population 

message: There was a very fascinating program on last night about how farmers breed cows and how there is an entire profession devoted to collecting bull sperm.  The program showed a vet doctor using a false vagina to collect the spern from the bull penis.  Without drawing vandals and censors, that might be something to somehow put in this article. -Husnock 07:38, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breeding 

message: In Texas when thinking of cattle as meat-on-the-hoof, it's one beef, two beeves (check out Merriam-Webster); this is a case of linguistic analogy, based on calf/calves, and an interestingly irregular regularization of the noun, and probably other things too. I note there are at least three articles on Bos taurus, and agree there should be. There should be a 'fun bit' division at the end noting these things. The English language's management of this species is very interesting. --FourthAve 08:22, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Beeves

message: The article currently states, "Hybrid individuals and even breeds exist, not only between European cattle and zebu but also with yaks, banteng, gaur, and American bison, a cross-genera hybrid."  Is this an exhaustive list?  Can cattle interbreed with, say, wisents? —Psychonaut 17:05, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently cattle–wisent crossbreeds are possible: see Żubroń. —Psychonaut 04:41, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cross-breeds

message: I noticed that Shorthorn redirects to Milking Shorthorn which seems incorrect, based on my own limited knowledge of cattle. --Big_Iron 10:31, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That is because we don't have an article specifically for non-milking shorthorns.  If you wanted to expand Milking Shorthorn (which does somewhat mention that there are other shorthorns) to include the non-milking variety, I'm quite happy to move Milking Shorthorn to Shorthorn and make the milking one a redirect...or to assist however else editors decide they want things split up. --Syrthiss 12:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  shorthorn 

message: The terminology section needs to be tidied up to make it read in a logical order. Ben Finn 18:33, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology