Why do male cows have udders

Are Cows afraid of Water? Udders are made of mammary glands, which are similar to human breasts. They contain four glands that are grouped together in a single organ. Each of the glands includes a long teat, similar to a nipple, that drains the gland while a calf suckles it or when a farmer milks it. Many people have mistaken that all the male cows have horns, while female cows do not. This assumption is not true.

In fact, not all male cattle have horns. Therefore, others resort to udders to distinguish between male and female cows. A bull is defined as a grown male bovine with intact testicles.

They are utilized for breeding purposes. Bulls do not all have horns. You can only tell whether a bovine is a bull or not by looking for a big sac located between hind legs. Moreover, bulls typically have more muscular shoulders, neck, and backside than cows. Simplistic story, but enjoyable and fun nonetheless as a partying cow must grow up to save his animal friends from a group of hungry coyotes who threaten their very lives on an otherwise peaceful farm.

Highly under-rated computer-generated feature has lots of upside for kids and kids at heart as the characters are all hilarious, the story has a good message and the situations are neat to watch.

In the tradition of "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius", the Nickelodeon Studios have come up with a winner that blends in well with other contemporary films of the type that have achieved success over the past few years.

A marginal winner. But as the film wears on, one can't help feeling that either the makers or the studio executives got a bit jittery about what they were doing, and decided to overload their film with sentiment and sugariness.

On a farm somewhere in America, the animals simply cannot wait until the farmer is away or asleep. The reason? Well, when these animals are not being watched by humans, there's nothing they love more than standing up on their own two feet and partying like hell! Much to the chagrin of his sensible father Ben voice of Sam Elliott , Otis is lively, popular, irresponsible and dangerous. However, one night Ben is fatally wounded by a pack of roaming coyotes, and the job of protecting the farmyard falls upon the barely-ready shoulders of young Otis.

To start with, Otis simply encourages his buddies to party harder than ever, but soon his carefree attitude to everything is challenged.

Secondly, the pack of coyotes return and start menacing the farmyard chickens. It falls upon Otis to stand up against them, but is he bull enough to face his bitter enemy? The animation is OK, but nothing remarkable. Oddly, the male cows have udders, which seems a rather absurd oversight on the part of the animators, but provides a few funny jokes early on e. In terms of plot, "Barnyard" is desperately familiar. The whole father-son relationship stuff, and the way the kid ends up learning to stand on his own two feet by the climax, is reminiscent of both "Chicken Little" and "The Wild", both released a few months prior to this one.

It's the same old same old, and we've suffered it too many times before. But I wouldn't exactly say that it's a must-see. Another life goes into the barn when the farmer is away. All the animals play Ben, not the main character but a cow, is in charge of the barn and it's coyote season At first, I was expecting an average animation film with bright colors, fast-paced songs, and lovable characters. Yeah, this film has that and much more.

The film has a lot of energy that kids will enjoy. The beginning starts off slow and boring but it picks up after the first twenty five minutes. I even found some parts that would scare the kids and some that I didn't even know could be in a PG rated film.

Although having a lot of peril, there are also funny and clever jokes some fall flat. I couldn't say something about the actors and actresses voicing the film but I would like to say Wanda Sykes is in this film.

She has also been in Over the Hedge, a better film, and was expecting her to bring some comedy into the film but I was disappointed. She did bring jokes that could make the kids laugh I know, this is a kids film. At some parts, this film could be PG but most of it is fun for children to watch.

This film is funny and better than expected. Barnyard tells the story of a barn of animals,, the main character being a cow, living a secret life when the kindly old farmer isn't looking.

When a gang of vicious coyotes kills an old cow, Otis the cow's goofball son , is left largely in charge of the barnyard Barnyard wasn't necessarily a bad movie, but it's not the first animated film about farm animals to come out, nor was it the last.

It certainly doesn't have the same quality as Chicken Run or Charlotte's Web Somehow is spawned a sequel, and a TV series that I've never honestly bothered to watch; I'm not exactly Barnyard's target audience. I think if I was, I would have enjoyed it a little more, it's a typical kid's movie, not much else to say.

DonFishies 18 April After I saw the first trailer, I thought that Barnyard looked amusing. I cannot remember when I saw the trailer. I just know that I did not see another one for quite a while. Finally, when the second trailer showed up, everything looked a bit cartoonier, and the movie finally was set to be released. Unfortunately, the amusement looked like it wore off, and it seemed to get lost in a jumble of other animated films released last summer.

So after finally checking it out, I have to say that I was a bit more surprised with the film than I thought I would be. Basically, Otis the Cow Kevin James is a free-spirited party animal. He parties with all of the other animals in the barnyard when the farmer is away, and disobeys his father Ben Sam Elliot on just about anything. So when Otis is called on to take charge and protect the animals from the vicious coyotes, he doubts he is really up to the job.

The film is not really all that deep as expected, but it does more of a job with maintaining a plot than other major animated films. And thankfully, the plot does not wear thin after just a few moments only to become preachy or downright boring, much like many of last year's animated offerings. It actually becomes rather sweet in some cases, and really surprised me with how much of a point the film had the trailers suggested the opposite.

Of course, in some cases it rips off The Lion King which was a kid-friendly version of Hamlet to start , but it is not so blatant that it takes right away from the film. But unfortunately, the film drags a little to get to its point. It is very padded with the party sequences in the barn, and the likes of the trailer's key "boy tipping" sequence. So when actual plot development takes place, it is offset by something silly that takes over and stays going for a lengthy amount of time. And for that to happen every few minutes in a ninety minute movie, really makes for a bit of an annoyance.

Watching part of it again really showed me just how fickle and unsolid some parts were. Yes, it does have its sweetness and its point, but it takes its time getting to it. What it does not take its time with is some really random scenes that you cannot do anything but laugh during. They get so ridiculous and so obnoxious that crying or really pondering to yourself why the scene is there in the first place is not an option. Their obnoxiousness is just too funny to not laugh.

Thankfully, there are some genuinely amusing moments that have nothing too raunchy or bizarre in them too. The CGI animation is alright, but is nothing to really cheer about. As I said previously, it is very cartoony, and it harks back as more of an ode to the olden style 2D animation of Looney Tunes than it does to the new, highly detailed animation of Happy Feet and Cars.

The characters are well drawn and designed, but do not expect to watch and count just how many strands of hair the dog has, or how many individual specks of mud the pig jumps into. The colours however are very vibrant and bright. It looks like they made up for the lack of detail with just how much colour splashes on the screen at any given moment. The animation really is not too jarring or bad, it just is obviously not up to the same level of expertise as other animated projects. It actually looked pretty good for what it is.

Obviously the biggest question to come out of the design of some of these characters is the udders on the male cows. It did not bother me except when they actually showed bulls in the barn which happens very little , and showed the female cows they look the same as the males.

That kind of threw the effect off for me, joke or not. I would have liked it better if there was a real explanation as to why they had udders, or how the females and males were supposed to be different, other than the fact that females can get pregnant.

But overall, unless you are really nit picky about animals being shown anatomically correct, it really should not be all that bothersome. The character of 'Wild Mike' also brings up a few questions, but not enough to really need as large of an exploration as the male cows with udders. The voices are all pretty well done. James as Otis is very fun loving, and very comical. In some instances though, his voice kind of wavered between tones bizarrely.

I think he would have done better not going with all kinds of wacky voices, and just stayed put in one tone. Elliot does a great job with his crackling fatherly voice, and so does Danny Glover with his wise donkey. David Koechner brought some great dark humour to the voice of the head coyote Dag as well. I was not all too impressed by Courteney Cox as Daisy the cow, as she does not sound all too convincing as an animal she should have taken lessons from Wanda Sykes, but unfortunately, she is too held back in her performance to do much of anything.

The lesser known, supporting voices are the ones who actually do the best, but that's come to be expected of people who already do voices to start with. On the whole, Barnyard is a lot better than it looks. Yes, it is silly, and yes it does drag out, but through it all, there are some good messages and a decent story going on. But you will definitely laugh, that's for sure. LazySod 22 February Live on the farm is a bore if you're one of the animals. Or at least it looks that way.

Being normal all day long, never being able to show your farmer what you are really made of. But that's what can be done at night when everyone is asleep. Party time! And by the looks of it the animals are pretty human after all. Barnyard is a typical animation film with plenty of fun. All the animals are animated in a typical cartoon style and all have their distinct treats of human nature, making it a very fun thing to watch, but not for the full length of it. The novelty runs of quickly and then it becomes boring.

Boring enough to fall asleep. It even bored the kid I took with me to see this film. All in all, decent animation, thin, but OK, story, too little events to keep it rolling. Good enough for DVD if it gets released to the cheap bins right away, not good enough for cinema. Barnyard is another in the entertaining animated films that attempt to please all audiences. There's much good humor in this film and many sight gags as well as the usual shenanigans.

The film is well put together technically, but there are some things about the film that just don't hit the spot. I didn't have any sympathy for the lead character Otis. Perhaps it was just the mood I was in, but the characters just didn't come through and I didn't feel much of an emotional response through most of the film. I think it was a little too teen for me. If you want some good teen-ish laughs, this is for you. Otherwise go with Cars or Over the Hedge. DLochner 28 March Something you watch with your kids while you explain hie the animals look like - because they are strange looking.

Bu thats not important because its colorful and funny enough for the little kids to have fun. Mission accomplished. Reckno64 25 June This is actually probably the second movie I ever cried watching, after The Spongebob Movie I was eight when this movie came out, and I remember crying my eyes out when Otis' dad died. Gawd just thinking about it is making me choke up again. This ain't no animated masterpiece, but boy did it have some heart, and I still remember it to this day.

Be right back I've gotta get some tissues cause I am crying just thinking about Otis and his dad in that one scene :''. Basrnyard; When the farmer goes away, all the animals in the barn sing, dance and behave like humans. All female cattle have visible teats , but only cows who have given birth to at least one calf, or are pregnant with a calf on the way will have visible udders.

In farming, we divide cattle into different categories, depending on their gender and reproductive state. Though there are countless further subdivisions we can make and different names in different parts of the world, there are broadly six categories of cattle when it comes to udders. Of this group, only Cows and Springers have visible udders , although Cows, Springers, Heifers, and Freemartins will all have visible teats.

Like all mammals, cows produce milk for their young from their mammary glands. Female cows produce milk which is stored in their udders and used to feed their calves. This is the case for young cows who have not yet had a calf, and for male cattle who can not have calves.

Cows only produce milk when they have a calf to feed, so dairy cows are kept in a perpetual state of pregnancy to ensure that they can keep producing milk for about 10 months of the year. If a non dairy cow were to become pregnant, their udders would become visible just like a dairy cow, however farmers usually try to avoid this because it costs them a lot of money to feed and nurture a young calf. Male cows are called bulls or steers, and they can not have udders.

Udders are only used for producing milk and feeding calves, which is only possible for female cows. All bulls have nipples, however their nipples are not prominent like the teats of a female cow and can be difficult to see, since they do not have udders.