Female cows OOP, OT WAS:Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: college and slaughter... (was Cooking Cats

[johnna holloway]

I grew up on a farm and we certainly butchered and ate female cows and
ones that were heifers and never bred. One or two never weaned, so they
were sold or butchered. There are always a number you decide not to keep
for the herd and some of those get eaten at the same age as a steer.
Other were sold at the livestick market. We also had one miscarry a
first calf in which case she wasn't kept either.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis

Isabella di Giovanni wrote:
> OK. I admit that I am clueless in some things. I had *no* idea that female cows weren't slaughtered for human food, after their *normal* usefulness was over.
> Isabella
>  lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:Isabella di Giovanni