Got a neighbor that brings home 6-8 holstein bull calves every year, from the sale barn Steers them and does well enough feeding them out that he's been repeating it for better'n 30 years
Many years ago, a guy was touring the county fairs displaying the "Worlds Biggest Steer". I didn't pay his fee but I did see it when he was moving it between the trailer and the tent. It was a holstein steer, not the heaviest by any means, but it well could have been the tallest. It was very big to start with but the thing also had abnormal spinal dorsal processes that stuck WAY up in the air, way over my head and I'm 6', even back then. It could have been 7' high. It was a weird looking thing.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
Used to pour a lot of concrete at Portuguese dairies. Biggest Holstein bull I've ever seen was in a super fortified steel pen. That bull towered over me and charged the welded pipe pen. I was told it had killed a man and I believe it. Took my gifted jug of homemade Dago Red and watched my back out of there.
I don't buy beef but was at a local grocery store today with my wife and loose hamburg laying in the case was $7.69 a lb. Yikes. Guess that wasn't Holstein burger. Burger in a cheap looking plastic 10 lb tube was $4.20 a lb.
One is alone in a land so vast, there is only the mountains, the wind, and the eyes of God.
We raised some when I was a teenager. Bottle to table.Grass and hay with a little ground oats and barley. Took a two year old to the butcher and he was just over 1200 lbs and some of the best beef I have ever had. Tender and delicious. We ate a few every year and sold the rest. Edk
All I know is I love good beef and I eat a good steak 3x a week. i really dont give a [bleep] if I will die sooner like they say. Its now how long you lived but how well you lived.