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Definition of Heifers
1. heifer [n] - See also: heifer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heifers
Literary usage of Heifers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1884)
"Also 14 yearlings of the remainder ; 6 steers and 8 heifers remain. ... Also 11
yearlings of the remainder ; 5 steers and 6 heifers remain. ..."
2. The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties: Including the Management of by Marshall (William), Marshall (1796)
"I have known a dairy of twenty or thirty cows, and ten or twelve heifers, ...
maiden heifers, as well as dry and barren cows, ..."
3. American Agriculturist (1843)
"SCALE OF POINTS ГОК COWS AND heifers. Аят. I. Breed, on male and female sides,
... No prize shall be awarded to cows having less than 21, or to heifers ..."
4. Dairy Farming by Clarence Henry Eckles, George Frederick Warren (1916)
"Cost of Raising heifers. The cost of raising heifers on a Wisconsin farm that
raised about twenty a year was kept for five years. ..."
5. Computers and Information Technologies in Agricultural Production and edited by Karl R. Schneider (1997)
"Beginning at 9 mo of age, heifers were observed twice daily for estrous activity.
From 10.5 to 12 mo of age, five heifers from each treatment group were ..."
6. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... gates his utter fall: So vow we at thine altar heifers twelve, Yearlings, to
yoke unbroken ; so but Thou Have mercy on our children and our homes. ..."
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