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On this page
you will discover pictures of animals that you may find in New
Zealand on both North and South Island. On this particular
picture you can see a bull sitting in the green grasses. A bull
is an intact adult male cattle. Young cattle are usually called
calves and young male is a bull calf. Heifer is how a young
female is called when she has not calved for a second time. In
America male cattle which are raised for meat are castrated and
are called steer or bullock. The ox, oxen for plural, are big
and heavy from the Bos Taurus cattle breed are mostly used for
draft as transport, plowing, irrigating, wagon drawing and
hauling cargo. They are most of the time castrated. A cow is an
adult female of over two years old. Cattle are raised for milk,
meat and hides. Some cattle are used for sports and draft. In
New Zealand farming is one of the main industries of this
country. Sheep farming is very common in New Zealand for its
meat and wool. New Zealand is one of the countries in the world
considered to produce the strongest wool. The most and best
breed in New Zealand is the Romney. |
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