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Mad Cow Disease Appears in California

Critter News

The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county. Nationally, California ranks behind Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in total cattle numbers. The state also hosts 1.84 million dairy cows, according to information compiled by the California Beef Council.

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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. About the Author Rick Rick Wright studied French, German, philosophy, and biology at the University of Nebraska. at Princeton University in 1990.

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