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

[Elaine Koogler]

I'm sorry, but this reminds me of something that happened to my mother 
many years ago.  My father raised Black Angus cattle as a hobby, and at 
this point in time, they were pastured in a field next to the road.  One 
morning, a fellow knocked on our door.  Mama answered the door, and he 
wanted to know if we had an "gentlemen cows" for sale.  Mama said she 
could decide whether he was trying to be courteous...or whether he just 
didn't know any better.

Kiri

Ron Carnegie wrote:

>    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.
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>	I have been corrected in this by an ox driver I know.
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>   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.
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>works with farm animals,
>Ranald de Balinhard
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>>[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Kirsten Houseknecht
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:46 AM
>>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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