calves

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“If I lived in another country, my legs wouldn’t look like this,” she said, rolling up her pants to show the chronic sores on her calves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Beef production reached 706,296 tonnes in the quarter ending June 2025, while the gross value of cattle and calves slaughtered totaled $4.9 billion.

From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2026

"She put all the energy into the calves, the calves are in good shape, but it took it off the mother," Moore said.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Sadly, while the five calves - two male and three females - are all doing well, their mother has since died.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Everything was overgrown; the plants scratching at her calves.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata