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An udder
Udder

An udder is the mammary gland organ of female cattle and some other mammals, including goats and sheep. Udder care and hygiene in cows is important in milking, aiding uninterrupted and untainted milk production, and preventing mastitis....
 is the mammary
Mammary gland

Mammary glands are the organ s that, in mammals, produce milk for the sustenance of the young. These exocrine glands are enlarged and modified sweat glands and give mammals their name....
 organ of female
Female

Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces mobile ovum . The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male....
  cattle
Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
 and some other mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s, including goat
Goat

The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep: both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae....
s and sheep
Sheep

#REDIRECT Domestic sheep...
. Udder care and hygiene in cows is important in milking
Milking

Milking is the act of removing milk from the mammary glands of an animal, typically cows and donkeys. A rarely used term for the milking of cows is vaccimulgence, derived from the Latin words vacca and emulgere ....
, aiding uninterrupted and untainted milk production, and preventing mastitis
Mastitis

Mastitis is the inflammation of the parenchyma of the mammary gland . It is called wikt:puerperal mastitis when it occurs in lactating mothers and non-puerperal otherwise....
. Products such as Bag Balm
Bag Balm

Bag Balm is a salve originally intended to soothe irritation on cattle udders. Although the product only mentions use "For chapped conditions and superficial abrasions" it is used as a treatment for chapped and irritated skin on humans and can be found in Pharmacy and ski resorts....
 are used to soothe the chapped skin of the udder.








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An udder
Udder

An udder is the mammary gland organ of female cattle and some other mammals, including goats and sheep. Udder care and hygiene in cows is important in milking, aiding uninterrupted and untainted milk production, and preventing mastitis....
 is the mammary
Mammary gland

Mammary glands are the organ s that, in mammals, produce milk for the sustenance of the young. These exocrine glands are enlarged and modified sweat glands and give mammals their name....
 organ of female
Female

Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces mobile ovum . The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male....
  cattle
Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
 and some other mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s, including goat
Goat

The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep: both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae....
s and sheep
Sheep

#REDIRECT Domestic sheep...
. Udder care and hygiene in cows is important in milking
Milking

Milking is the act of removing milk from the mammary glands of an animal, typically cows and donkeys. A rarely used term for the milking of cows is vaccimulgence, derived from the Latin words vacca and emulgere ....
, aiding uninterrupted and untainted milk production, and preventing mastitis
Mastitis

Mastitis is the inflammation of the parenchyma of the mammary gland . It is called wikt:puerperal mastitis when it occurs in lactating mothers and non-puerperal otherwise....
. Products such as Bag Balm
Bag Balm

Bag Balm is a salve originally intended to soothe irritation on cattle udders. Although the product only mentions use "For chapped conditions and superficial abrasions" it is used as a treatment for chapped and irritated skin on humans and can be found in Pharmacy and ski resorts....
 are used to soothe the chapped skin of the udder.

See also

  • Dairy
    Dairy

    A dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk—mostly from goat or cattle, but also from bovine, sheep, horses or camels —for human consumption....
  • Cow
  • Milk
    Milk

    Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals . It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digestion other types of food....
  • Lactation
    Lactation

    Lactation describes the secretion of milk from the mammary glands, the process of providing that milk to the young, and the period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young....
  • Mammary gland
    Mammary gland

    Mammary glands are the organ s that, in mammals, produce milk for the sustenance of the young. These exocrine glands are enlarged and modified sweat glands and give mammals their name....
  • Breast
    Breast

    The breast is the upper ventral region of an animal?s torso, particularly that of mammals, including human beings. The breasts of a female primate?s body contain the mammary glands, which secrete milk used to feed infants....
  • Nipple
    Nipple

    In its most general form, a nipple is a structure from which a fluid emanates. More specifically, it is the projection on the breasts of a mammal by which breast milk is delivered to a mother's young....
  • Teat
    Teat

    Teat is an alternative word for the nipple of a mammary gland, in humans referred to as a breast, from which milk is discharged. Similarly, in Cattles, goats, etc., teats are the projections from the udder through which milk is discharged....
  • Milk line
    Milk line

    The milk lines are two parallel lines, formed by thickenings of the epidermis along the ventral surface of mammals of both sexes. They extend from the upper limbs to the lower limbs and are developed in the embryo....

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