Udder

An udder is an organ formed of two or four mammary glands on the females of dairy animals and ruminants such as cattle, goats, and sheep.

The udder is a single mass hanging beneath the animal, consisting of pairs of mammary glands with protruding teats.

It has been demonstrated that incorporating nutritional supplements into diet, including vitamin E, is an additional method of improving udder health and reducing infection.

[3] It was evolved from the Proto-Germanic reconstructed root *eudrą or *ūdrą, which in turn descended from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”).

[4] The udder, or elder in Ireland, Scotland and northern England, of a slaughtered cow was in times past prepared and consumed.