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Andrew McCammond's 200 suckler cows are among the herds that graze across the Belfast hills.

Katie-Rose Davies, whose family have run their hill farm for almost 100 years, has about 1,000 south Wales mountain ewes and 40 suckler cows.

To address this officers are sent on a two-day course, including a trip to the mart and abattoir where they're schooled in heifers and bullocks, suckler calves and the value of stock.

They return three times a day until their children are eight months old—in the middle of the forenoon, at noon, and in the middle of the afternoon; till the twelfth month but twice a day, missing at noon; during the twelfth month at noon only…The amount of work done by a suckler is about three fifths of that done by a full hand, a little increased toward the last…Pregnant women at five months are put in the sucklers' gang.

The Karankawas of Texas called "mother," kaninma, the "suckler," from kanin, "the female breast."