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  • From: Marie Kamphefner <kampy AT grm.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Grass Fed Beef
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:03:35 -0600

Ours was a bull.  The vet said not to castrate him until he was six months old - so he would grow better.  By the time this Brown Swiss was 6 months old, he was so big, neither one of us wanted to work on him.  I had heard that if you hold a bull's tail up in the air, he can't kick you, but we didn't feel like gambling.  :-)  We had him butchered when he was about 1 1/2 years old.  The other thing that could have make his meat bad was that the guy who shot him, scared him.  He hollered at him so he would look up and it seemed to startle him to see a stranger.

 
Marie I will ask you what I asked Sue (hope she has great answers) was the calf a bull or steer.  I read where bull meat is not as tasty as steer.  I read this after we'd eaten two bulls.  Beth
We bought a baby Brown Swiss bull from a nearby dairy a few years back.  We raised him on pasture and fed him some of our corn.  We had him butchered and the meat was extremely tough and the taste was not good.

We would like to raise our own "organic"  beef, but how do you make it taste good?  Is there a book?

Marie in Missouri
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