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danny_galaga:
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--- Quote from: danny_galaga on April 25, 2005, 09:21:35 pm ---dairy cows are breed to produce too much milk. so you really do have to keep milking it. having said that if you wanted to stop the cycle you wouldnt breed any more of those cows.
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Cows will only produce as much milk as is taken from it.
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SirPeale:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on April 26, 2005, 08:55:43 pm ---OK, but they are breed to have udders much larger than necessary. they have WAY more milk than is needed for their calves. it makes sense to have bred them that way because that is what WE wanted from them. MEAT cows have smaller udders yet their calves don't starve to death...
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The calves are taken away within a couple weeks after birth, if the calf is to be a milk cow. They're then bottle fed. If they're a male calf they get tied up so they can't move (don't want to work that muscle, you know it makes the meat tough!) then slaughtered at about a month old.
The udders on your average milk cow are distended because they're producing far more milk than they would for just their calf, and on top of that they do it for an average of five years, before their bodies give out.
Meat cows have smaller udders because they don't give milk.
Of course, different places do things differently. There's a family farm not far from here where the calves stay with the mother (at least the female calves) and they get to roam on a pasture and eat the grass there. They also only have a few cows. Not like a factory farm where they pile them on top of one another.
Dartful Dodger:
International Respect for Chickens Day
Wednesday May 4, 2005
Remember if you're going to deep fry a whole chicken you need to buy it on May 4, so there will be a noticeable economical affect.
Nothing says respect like profit.
Shape D.:
I'm going to remain undecided and watch chiken run while eating a huge tub of kfc.
daywane:
hungry yet ;D