Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire The last time you saw a Holstein Steer?

Ten or more years for me.

7 days ago. Helped a bud move him.

Not quite a steer yet as he was just banded about an hour before we moved him.

Usually they're just on the back of the tandem bike.

Friends family pastures them on the farm we hunt.

They'll lick/rub the paint off a truck quick.
Usually 1-200 of the stupid bastages.

We had one when I was a kid. It was the funniest son-of-a-cow I ever saw.

All over Kommiefornia pasture land. Portagee's run a lot of them in the Central Valley.

Just a bit ago. My neighbor feeds out about 100 every winter.

There is a HUGE dairy (Berend Bros) in Windthorst, TX. They sell off their bull calves every year. Neighbor buys about 100.

We have about 500k dairy cows within 75 miles of here and probably 95% are holsteins. Usually the bull calves are just killed as there's no use for them. You can get newborns for free but it takes 2 years go grow one to butcher size and they just aren't worth the cost and effort for the amount of meat on one.

Yes. Rockchuck probably lives among them.

About 10 years back for me. Nearest dairies are about 100 miles away in Idaho.

A hunting buddy had one. It experienced some ankle damage as a calf, and his wife adopted it. When the marriage fell apart, a portion of the agreement was that Mofo would live out his years at my buddies' place. Absolutely no kill or sale allowed.

Damned thing lasted almost 20 years, and as it moved about during its final seasons, one could hear its joints squeaking/grinding. My buddy moved once, and we had serious issues loading it. It was so tame he could not be herded about. Wave one's arms and run around, and he'd just stand and stare at you. Finally put his feed in the trailer and closed the door when it went in to eat the following morning. Probably weighed about 2,400 lbs. At 3% of body weight in feed a day, it was a very expensive pet. In the end it cost about $300 to bring out a backhoe to bury him.

I’m going to Walmart this weekend, I’ll see a herd of them there.

You have to come to the east side of the state ifn you want to see alot of holsteins.

Wednesday. Local mills cattleman's dinner/seminar is held at a farm here they feed out 2000 holsteins a year.

Sooner than I last saw an Orange Julius......

Bull Holstein calves bring big money here, BUT it all depends on the breeding.. The farm I work for part-time raises some of the best Holsteins in the state and they've won a major award for the breeding and heritage lineup.. They've sold bulls to several countries in eastern Europe and, IIRC, Australia.. As for meat use, most breeds take about two years to get to butcher size. My uncle raised Angus cows for decades and it was common to have 'em take 2 years to get to the 'ideal' weight of about 1100-1200#..

My nephew, next door on farm raises red and black holsteins and a few other breeds. He just butchered a steer not too long ago!

It's all black angus or hereford around here. Our neighbor used to milk holsteins but he stopped doing that about 50 years ago. I don't know of a single one in the whole county.

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That would have been my guess based on what relatively little I know about cattle. There's a reason beef breeds are beef breeds and dairy breeds are dairy breeds. Dairy breeds are efficient at producing milk, not meat.

I grew up eating half Holstein and half Hereford steers, fattened on ground corn,shuck,cob and grain ground together. A little bit of cottonseed meal mixed too. Still the best steaks that I ever had. Steer would be from our milk cow. The full blood Herefords went to sale. Back on topic, a few years ago, on the South side of I-40 just West of Amarillo, Tx. That for several years only had Holsteins. I assume part were steers. Rumor was that it was a feed lot for Mickey-D. miles

We figured it out 35 years ago they aren’t worth feeding out. All bones and gut and not much meat but I see people feeding them out every year. People get lured into them because they are cheap or free.

Holstein beef is good.