[Sca-cooks] Oxen and ox driving

[Ron Carnegie]

   Because they would be meat sooner.  The training an Ox receives causes
it's life to be lengthened.

Ranald de Balinhard


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>   Ranald de Balinhard commented:
> > The Ox lives longer than i was designed to and gets to big and heavy
> > for its own
> > legs.
> Does this mean that the ox keeps growing throughout its life?
> > This always struck me as sad and possibly cruel, but they do tend to
> > live about 4 to 8 times the length of their non-working brethren.
> Do they live longer because they are castrated? Or because they work?
> Because they are better cared for? Or because the non-working ones get
> turned into meat sooner?
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