With reference to American cattle, what is the name of a motherless or stray calf?
Calf known as a "poddy" or "poddy-calf" in British English. "Bobby calves" are young calves which are to be slaughtered for human consumption. A "vealer" is a fat calf weighing less than about which is at about eight to nine months of age. A young female calf from birth until she has had a calf of her own is called a "heifer" (). In the American Old West, a motherless or small, runty calf was sometimes referred to as a "dogie," (pronounced with a long "o"). The term "calf" is also used for some other species. See "Other animals" below. Calves
Motherless Child Blues the song, retitled "Motherless Child", and recorded it for his album "From the Cradle". A song with a similar title, "Motherless Children" (also covered by Clapton), is a blues standard, versions of which have been recorded by Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk and Lucinda Williams. The song recorded by Elvie Thomas with Geeshie Wiley in 1930 tells of a daughter not following her dead mother's advice: Motherless Child Blues "Motherless Child Blues" (or, in dialect, "Motherless Chile Blues") is the name of two distinctly different traditional blues songs. They are different melodically and lyrically. One was first popularized by Robert