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  • From: "Hook Family" <guldann AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Grass Fed Beef
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:00:13 -0500

That appear to mesh with what Sue said uncastrated must eat by 18 months.  Ours were castrated at less than a month, seem to be growing ok.  We let our others get to old and hence same reason we did not castrate them. 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Grass Fed Beef

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.


 



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