name only female cattle. males would be, slaughtered; attachment undesirable.
In ' The colors of the mountain' gripping maiden film by Colombian director Carlos Cesar Arbekiez, there is a scene in which a father tells his son who wants to name a male calf that only cows are to be named.Bulls will be slaughtered, so it's not good to get attached to them. Most of the pets, male of the species too, get a name though..