Name for a Cow
 

So I am getting a new cow, going to be my family milk cow. :bouncy:she is friendly and comes when called but she doesn't have a name. they just call cow. but I need a name for her so I was thinking it should sound similar to "cow" so she might have an easier time transitioning. Anyone have any ideas?

From a great old Cheech and Chong movie.... HAMBURGER.....

Use any name or call, just use it continuously when you call her to feed her. Cows are totally habit driven, and you just have to teach them by repetition for a little while. I personally think they recognize your voice more than a name, anyway. And I never give animals people names. Personal preference:)

Oh we had a cow named burger. As a heifer she would eat our barns Christmas tree so my sister told her do that one more time and your name is hamburger. Well she did, and it was. Before that her name was Amber :)

You can’t go wrong with virtues Faith, Honor, Charity.
Or flowers Violet, Rose, Mayapple.
Or gems Ruby, Pearl, Coral??:D

"Now".

Like, "Come here, Now!". I say something similar every morning, and it more or less works. Seriously, your girl will get used to your routine clanking around in the barn every day and will come no matter what you say, as long as there is feed waiting for her.

Right now I have Polly, Paisley, Penzy and Peggy Sue. Come and gone are Pandora, Penelope, Pilgrim, Pearl, Pokey. Pilgrim was a steer that had been born on Thanksgiving day. Polly got me started on names beginning with "P" and I've been doing it ever since.

You can call her any name you like. It doesn't have to sound similar to cow. She'll learn her new name. I can call each one of my cows by name while they're grazing and the one I'm calling will look up. They know their names.

Congrats on the new cow. :)

Cow Belle! Or Bella. Kora. Caolene, Carlene. =P I just like Cow Belle tho. Haha

Ok, so dont laugh....lol I have a steer and heifer, when I want them to come up to the barn, I holler "MOO"-bies (been calling them that since they were on bottles, they are two yrs old now). They come running, I agree I think it is more the sound of your voice or the noise you make at the barn.

Their names are Precious and Goober

I'd rather call it medium rare.....

I always like to have something to call them. I had Elsie, my milk cow that wouldn't breed, and there was ribeye the steer. I know she will get used to anything, I was just trying to make it easier for her to learn the new name. but I just don't think there are any names that sound like cow- unless you just go for a new C name...

Carol sounds like Cow, though that seems like a funny name for a cow. Sometimes I like common human names for animals. Last year I named a goat Paul. The folks who bought him changed his name to Niles, which I thought was just as funny.

Going along with this trend, you could call her Rarity.

Miruku is milk in Japanese.

Plena and Aamira mean abundant, in abundance, plentiful [in regards to her milk supply].

I like Miruku, but I can't really see standing in a pasture calling Miruku!!

Our current little heifer is Tootsie because she is brown like a tootsie roll.

You have to pick what suits you and the cow. I prefer older people names for our milkers. Like Millie, Charlotte, Gerty (Gertrude) and so on.

My milker is Abbigail (Abby for short)--it means "a servant," among other things, which I found fitting for a milk cow. I have a line of goats where mom is Faith, daughter is Joy, and the next doeling will be Hope. I also had a line where I bought mom already named Latte', so her twin doelings became Mocha and Caramel. I love coming up with related names for related critters. Then, of course, we have the steers destined to be beef--Rib-eye and T-bone, and the gilt pigs, destined for Christmas hams--Honey and Maple. Names are fun!

One thing I find about naming an animal is if you want a good name let it come to you....don't force it. Peppercorn is a pig with black spots so she looks like peppercorn salami...Dot was named by the neighbors, Gorbachev (complete with spot on his forehead) was named by my sister. Names that stick are the ones that fit the animal.

Also, Miruku a modern word for milk. Gyu-nyu is actually how the Japanese say milk.

Never name your food ! it's easier to butcher "cow" than Honey do . And a whole lot easier to swallow . and i know some will say it's her milk cow so what does that mean when the time comes your not going to eat the beef ?

turns out she was actually named Hersey. not sure how I feel about it, but she does look when you call it, so I guess that's what she's stuck with.
and I like the Latte goat line!!!

I don't like to give animals people names, either (did you ever notice that not once in the Bible does an animal have a 'given' name? They are just called 'the donkey' or 'a milch cow' or whatever.). However, dogs, cats, and animals that get milked or are around a long time usually do end up with names. I think it's a human trait to name things (it was the first job given to Adam, after all!). My Jersey heifer is Rosabelle, with frequent alterations depending on how good she's being! I usually call her Rosie (and even at eight weeks old she's learning to know her name!) -- one of my grandmothers was named Rosie, but I don't think she would have minded a calf being named after her. We had a big Brown Swiss named Buttercup when I was a kid, and we named her calf Prune Juice because he was just that color (he was a cross with something else -- the experiment station in Fairbanks tried all kinds of cattle, trying to come up with something that could handle Interior Alaska's extreme cold in the winters, and the products of their experiments made it out to the homesteads like ours).

I have a wether goat named BBQ, because he's headed for the freezer. Too bad, because he's a sweetheart. But we'll enjoy the meat anyway!

Kathleen

When we were kids we had 2 sheep i remember named Barney and Fred one day they left to go live on a huge sheep farm .....about 3 months later we found their name collars in the barn and figuired out why we had been having so many lamb chops lately !:grumble:

"Chow" sounds like "cow".

Compliments of my wife! :)

we named our little heifer calf Sassafrass cuz sh'e sassy and our other one is named Bella.other names we have used include,Batman,Joker,Winchester,,Porter,Denver,Lew ie,Rolo Harley and Dumbo :)

Emma, Buttercup if she is a Jersy, Daisy, Domino or Oreo if black and white.

I just use what feel right. Right now I have: Angel, Hannah, Thelma, Libby, Pearl, Bitty, and my least favorite "The Black Eyed Witch" who's real name is Louise, but she and I do not get along...:yuck: