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[mavhc]

Do you know what the name for a baby cow is? It's: baby cow

and a male cow is called: a male cow

[Symbiote → mavhc]

Separate words for male and female animals, and adult or infant ones, were (and are) useful for people who work with them — farmers and so on.

[mavhc → Symbiote]

Indeed, but no need for everyone to care about such technical terms

Also who's farming crows?

[dgfitz → mavhc]

I might be missing the point you're making, but isn't a baby cow called a calf, and a male cow called a bull? Unless castrated, in which case the bull is instead known as a steer.

[unsupp0rted → dgfitz]

What's the word for a group of baby cows? What about a group of male cows that have been castrated?

Let's use "group" and leave it at that.

[mavhc → dgfitz]

Only technical people need to know such things though, in this case, farmers