Regional or Dialect words for young cattle - Another request for info

Louisa Gidney · Post by **Louisa Gidney** » Mon May 25, 2009 10:12 am

Heifer, steer, bullock, store all in common usage.
What about stirk? Still common locally.
Anyone use Quey, or any of the other variants derived from Twinter?
What about Stot?
Any more I have yet to come across?

Duncan MacIntyre · Post by **Duncan MacIntyre** » Mon May 25, 2009 10:18 am

In west of Scotland, heifers, bullocks, stirks and queys abound. Stots are more common in Perthshire, sometimes sounds more like "stoat" on the phone so can be confusing to vets' wives.

A heifer twin to bull hereabouts is a "Jenny Willocks" - freemartins only occur in posher areas.

Duncan

Saffy · Post by **Saffy** » Mon May 25, 2009 10:36 am

Oh Duncan you have made my Day!!!

A twin to a bull calf was always a freemartin here! :D

Stephanie

Louisa Gidney · Post by **Louisa Gidney** » Mon May 25, 2009 1:24 pm

Jenny Willocks is wonderful, never heard that one before. Sounds like a relative of Betty Swollocks!
Thanks for the stots & queys. Stot is interesting as originally Old English but appears to survive around & north of the Border nowadays.
Quey is apparently a corruption of twinter, which was used locally for sheep into recent past.