bum calf

bum calf
A young heifer or bull which has been orphaned or abandoned; it must therefore be adopted by another cow, steal milk, or be bottle-fed in order to survive, and is therefore often a runt.

At the start of calving season, there was another bum calf, Ferdinand, whose mother had abandoned him.


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