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Calves: Muscle located on the back part of the lower leg of a human body.

Stocker Cattle: Calves or older animals maintained, often on pasture or rangeland, to increase weight and maturity before being placed in a feedlot.

Couru: Small quick steps in most cases calves are kept together can also be described as 'massaging the floor with your feet'.

Vellum: The skin of a young calf used as a writing surface--the medieval equivalent of 'paper.' A technical distinction is usually made between vellum and parchment, the latter is made from goatskin . . . View Full Definition

Feeder Cattle: A steer or cow mature enough to be placed in a feedlot where it will be fattened prior to slaughter. Feeder calves are less than 1 year old: feeder yearlings are between 1 and 2 years old.

Cow-Calf Operator: A ranch or farm where cows are raised and bred mainly to produce calves usually destined for the beef market. The cows produce a calf crop each year, and the operation keeps some heifer calv . . . View Full Definition

Parchment: Animal skins that have been treated by scraping, use of lime to remove hair, and rubbing. Skins of sheep, pigs, goats have been used. For vellum those of young calves or still-born lambs are . . . View Full Definition

Animal Welfare Act: P.L. 89-544 (August 24, 1966) was enacted to curb the theft and mistreatment of dogs and cats for experimental and research purposes. The principal federal animal protection law, it has been . . . View Full Definition

Beef (Cattle) Price Index (BPI): An index of the weighted average annual price for beef cattle, excluding calves, for a 16 western state area as compared with a specific base period equal to 100. This index is used in calcu . . . View Full Definition

Bioaccumulation: The process whereby pollutants are taken up, retained and concentrated in the cells of plants and animals.