Lightweight mod that randomizes cattle color and new gender-specific models. No record edits and no 3rd party patches needed! Females have horns removed and keep their udders. Males are now thicker in the neck and shoulders and keep their horns while their udders have been removed. Calves are smaller with slimmer skulls, bigger eyes, and adorable little baby horns. :)

REQUIREMENTS
Only requirements are Spell Perk Item Distributor and course Mihail's Cow Replacer. As of version 1.4 now also requires Keyword Item Distributor for calves to follow their mothers. Works fine with Dynamic Animal Variants SPID and meant to be an addon for it, but you don't need it if you just want the cows.


TECHNICAL DETAILS
The installer comes with and ESPFE and two ini options.The vanilla version replaces all vanilla cows with male and female variants of randomized color. The SkyTEST version (which also covers SkyTEST Redux, yes) will replace all Bulls with only male models of randomized color, and replaces all other Cows with only female models with randomized color.  Built-in support is provided for CACO cows and calves. There are also patches included for Fluffy models (seen in the screenshots).

With this mod you should not need ANY patches not already currently provided in the installer, including existing patches for Mihail's Cow Replacer. You also no longer need More Cow Variants, as this mod covers color variants and more without adding any additional actors or records. That being said, you can use it and any patches you already had, but you no longer need them to get Mihail's cows everywhere-- the script will still replace any cow that uses the vanilla cow record (which is most mods) and all additional cow types from CACO and SkyTEST.


KNOWN ISSUES
-If you use Favor Jobs Overhaul or some other mod that adds milking to cows, you will probably receive the prompt to milk bulls and calves. I'm not a scripter but depending on how it's implemented it might be able to be patched. For now just don't milk bulls and calves if you don't want your immersion broken. :P
-If you use a plugin that disables SkyTEST's extra spawns, most if not all your cows will be female since bulls will no longer be hand-placed in the world. I might patch this in the future but I don't forsee it being a big issue for most people.
-I don't have fluffy meshes for the calves yet. They're kind of a pain so they'll be in another update.
-If you use MO2 the calf might look funky in Nif Preview. It looks fine in game.


TOOLS USED
Photoshop CC
Blender
Nifskope
Outfit Studio


CREDITS
-Mihail for the great cow models that made this possible
-Xtudo for his optimized textures which I used as a base to create texture patches for the modified meshes
-SamLowry42 for the calf models I used as a base and improved upon
-6Four9 for the shell meshes that allowed me to make a Fluffy patch (the mod is now gone but it had open permissions)
-DylanJames for the SPID files I used as reference and for the script included in this download
-fadingsignal for the OG script


PERMISSIONS
None of these assets are originally mine and fall under the permissions of those I derived them from, primarily Mihail, whose permissions can be easily accessed through his page-- generally speaking though, they are open permissions. Anything that was not open permissions I obtained permission to use and/or edit.