Dairy Cattle Anatomy
Across
- 2. Attaches to the medial flat surfaces of the two udder halves
- 6. Part of an animals head between ears
- 7. Bones with a lot of meat that protects organs
- 9. Helps the dairy cow last and its thought to be a an indicator of more udder capacity
- 13. Vertebrae that's well defined and is attached to the hip bones
- 14. Firm & smooth attachment to cow’s body wall of moderate length & evenly balanced
- 15. projection from the mammary gland of in which milk flows from
- 16. Measures where the fore udder blends into the body wall
- 17. Allows for wider openings of the pelvic outlet at calving
Down
- 1. Part of an animals head which includes the nose mouth and jaw
- 3. Known as beef clod it is a large muscle
- 4. Wide but not prominent, slightly higher with the pins
- 5. Posterior ends of the pelvic bones that appear as two raised areas
- 8. Composed of the hind parts of the udder
- 10. large half round section of the bone at the edge
- 11. Should be wide to help balance
- 12. Defined and very angular in appearance with no disternal