This is an animated Dairy Cow .. dairy cattle (also called dairy cows or milk cows) are cattle cows bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made .. historically, there was little distinction between dairy cattle and beef cattle, with the same stock often being used for both meat and milk production. .. in the old west, a cattle drive would move a herd of cattle from one place to another, by cowboys on horses .. the herd would include , cows, steers, and calves .. in the terminology used to describe the and age of cattle, the male is first a bull calf and if left intact becomes a bull, if castrated he becomes a steer, and in about two or three years grows to an ox .. the female is first a heifer calf, growing into a heifer, and becoming a cow .. an adult female that has had a calf or two, depending on regional usage, is a cow .. a young female, before she has had a calf of her own, and is under three years of age, is called a heifer ... a young female that has had only one calf, is occasionally called a first-calf heifer .. Moo..