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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
An udder ting...
« on: April 09, 2015, 02:13:10 pm »
Pedant warning...


I keep reading about a ewe and her udders ... please folks, there's just one udder.  A cow has one udder with four quarters and a teat on each quarter.  A sheep has one udder with two quarters ( ::)) and a teat on each quarter.

Sorry.  :-[
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2015, 03:19:12 pm »
Except those which have one udder, 2 quarters and TWO teats per quarter  :roflanim:
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Me

  • Joined Feb 2014
  • Wild West
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2015, 05:23:58 pm »
What an udderly ridiculous post Sally  :spam: :bow:

waddy

  • Joined May 2012
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2015, 05:42:31 pm »
Pedant warning...


A sheep has one udder with two quarters ( ::) ) and a teat on each quarter.




Wouldn't that make it two halves? ;D


Helen

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2015, 05:45:49 pm »
Pedant warning...


A sheep has one udder with two quarters ( ::) ) and a teat on each quarter.



Wouldn't that make it two halves? ;D

You would think, wouldn't you?!  But no, it don't!


Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Hevxxx99

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2015, 11:14:36 pm »
If it's the same as with horses, they still have 4 "quarters" but each teat serves two quarters and has two holes.

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2015, 11:32:06 pm »
and has two holes.

Udderneath?  ;D

What a great thread.  Every day's a school day!  :roflanim:
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Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2015, 07:39:32 am »
When you milk a mare as both holes squirt in oposite directions you cannot use a bucket.  Actually a 60 ml syringe is best, cut the pointed end off, put the plunger in the wrong way and put the finger grips up against the udder, draw back the plunger and the syringe fills with milk.  Easy, clean and a lot less swear words.

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2015, 03:24:15 pm »
and has two holes.

Udderneath?  ;D

What a great thread.  Every day's a school day!  :roflanim:

I love this site.

Isn't evolution strange - cows have four teats and usually only have one calf; sheep only have two but often have three (or more lambs) and horses, well,  ::)

Caroline1

  • Joined Nov 2014
  • Cambridgeshire
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2015, 04:03:03 pm »
This is definitely my fact of the day!  :farmer:
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Caroline

princesslayer

  • Joined Jan 2013
  • Tadley, Hants
Re: An udder ting...
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2015, 10:52:03 pm »
Keeper of Jacob sheep, several hens, Michael the Cockerel and some small children.

 

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