Honestly, "steers" probably go over most people's heads (Rocko's Modern Life probably didn't help), but cows being female and bulls being male is shit you learn in kindergarten.
You see, having a lot of male stock (of any animal type) can be a bit of a problem. Particularly if they are intact. Hormones and a large male population tend to result in damage to each other, damage to female stock, and possibly even killing of juvenile stock (let alone damage to property).
Solutions include:
Making Stallions Geldings (chopping the balls off a stallion)
Making Bulls Steers (chopping the balls off a bull. Can also be called oxen or bullocks if kept to adulthood and made to work as beasts of burden). Alternatively, making bulls veal.
Making Rams Wethers (chopping the balls off a ram). Alternatively, making rams into a lamb roast
Making Roosters Nuggets (grinding baby male chicks into paste)
Making Boars Barrows (chopping the balls off a boar). Alternatively, making them into bacon.
It's okay to practice eugenics in animal populations to keep desired traits for agricultural purposes, and raising animals agriculturally tends to have a lot more shit and blood involved than sunshine and lollipops.
Honestly, "steers" probably go over most people's heads (Rocko's Modern Life probably didn't help), but cows being female and bulls being male is shit you learn in kindergarten.
What are steers?
Funny you mention that. Just watched 'Damnation' episode 6 in which they mention a "burdizzo." Looked it up: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=burdizzo&ia=web
Ouch. https://www.quora.com/Can-a-burdizzo-be-used-to-castrate-a-man
You see, having a lot of male stock (of any animal type) can be a bit of a problem. Particularly if they are intact. Hormones and a large male population tend to result in damage to each other, damage to female stock, and possibly even killing of juvenile stock (let alone damage to property).
Solutions include:
It's okay to practice eugenics in animal populations to keep desired traits for agricultural purposes, and raising animals agriculturally tends to have a lot more shit and blood involved than sunshine and lollipops.
Whoa there bigot! Cattle have a spectrum of genders and any farmer that worships sCience will submit to that truth!