[Sca-cooks] Oxen and steers, was Recent Test

[Ron Carnegie]

    No such thing as a male cow.  It is a male neat or a male beeve, or even
a male bovine.  Cow is always female.  An Ox technically can be female and
need not be castrated.  Now saying that they almost always are both those
things.  A female has other more important work to do than being an ox, and
a bull is to much trouble.  They are so typically steers that most non-ox
people will tell you that they are always steers, which is usually correct.
Oxen is plural.

	I have been corrected in this by an ox driver I know.

   Now chickens are another matter!  I don't know how many time I have heard
people say, "that's not a chicken, it is a rooster!"  Roosters are always
chickens, they are never hens, they can become capons.

works with farm animals,
Ranald de Balinhard




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> To: john at kemker.org; Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Oxen and steers, was Recent Test
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> i thought an Ox was a working castrated male cow.
> that is, a steer that pulls things.
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