Kye

Kye (colloquially cous) is yin o’ the maist common teep o muckle domesticatit ungulates. Thay are a prominent modren member o the subfaimily Bovinae, are the maist widespreid species o the genus Bos, an are maist commonly classifee'd collectively as Bos taurus.

Kye
A Swiss Braunvieh cou weirin a cowbell
Conservation status
Domesticatit
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Faimily:	Bovidae
Subfaimily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Bos
Species:	B. taurus
Binomial name
Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758
Bovine range
Synonyms
Bos primigenius Bos indicus

Kye is commonly raised as fermstockin for meat (beef an veal), as dairy ainimals for milk an ither dairy products, an as draucht ainimals (owsen or bullocks that pull cairts, plows an ither implements). Ither products include laither an dung for manur or fuel. In some regions, sic as pairts o Indie, cattle hae signeeficant releegious meanin.

Aroond 10,500 year syne, kye wis domesticatit frae as few as 80 progenitors in sootheast Taerkey.^[1] Accordin tae an estimate frae 2011, thare 1.4 billion kye in the warld.^[2] In 2009, kye becam ane o the first fermstockin animals tae hae a fou mappit genome.^[3] Some conseeder kye the auldest form o walth, an nowt raidin consequently ane o the earliest forms o thift.

Names for kye

• Heifer - a young cou
• Mairt - an owse or cou fattened for slauchter
• Cauf (pl. caur) - a babbie cou
• Bull (or bu') - a male cou