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dairy cattle in American English cows raised mainly for their milk dairy cattle in American Englishplural nouncows raised mainly for their milk, esp. cows of a dairy breed Word origin [1890–95 ]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blip, cholesterol, honky-tonk, phoneme, wirelessExamples of 'dairy cattle' in a sentencedairy cattle Maize is fed as silage to dairy cattle.The prices fetched for dairy cattle have trebled and milk prices have improved.If dairy cattle aren't milked, they become very uncomfortable and begin leaking.Methane from livestock, with dairy cattle at the fore, contributes a third.Hay and corn prices used to feed dairy cattle have doubled because of the rising demand for corn to ferment to make ethanol, the biofuel.Another target that has incensed farmers is that methane emissions from dairy cattle should be reduced by 60 per cent within 15 to 20 years.The industrial practice of feeding cattle bits to dairy cattle not only produced more milk, but also put big holes in their brains.The vast bulk of them are elderly dairy cattle who would have eaten cattle-based feed in the 1980s.The same thing happens to dairy cattle after their 'productive' lives are over - around four to five years of age. |