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We have eaten bulls with broken legs and they were fine then the last one we did you couldn't stand the smell when cooking so the dogs ate fine all winter.

To bad about the loss, A young bull you probably had plans for.
 
I had a cow sluff a calf a while back we are down to 30 packages of burger so today the butcher came.The burger we are eating now came from a cow with a broken leg and it's tasty.
 
I would just wonder how the meat will taste if he has just been on grass/hay. We ate a bull that didn't sale at the bull sale and the meat tasted gamey,my uncle who fattens cattle, said it was due to no corn being fed to him. Hope all goes well it's a lot of meat for coyotes if it doesn't. :(
 
Lots of cattler are grazed and butchered. If you do it here before August, they taste great. Don't know about just feeding them hay, but guess we are about to find out. He was in excellent shape and had good fat cover. The butcher mentioned adding some tallow if necessary. I hate real lean hamburger...want a little 'sizzle' in my burgers.
 
Soapweed said:
We didn't butcher the heifer that choked on afterbirth. It had only been about ten days since she had been vaccinated with Scourgard, and the withdrawal is 21 days.
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Soapweed!!! Great call and thanks for reading the label and following the withdrawal time...we should all do it, but lots of us get in a hurry, don't read the label, and unfortunately get in a wreck... :x

Have a great day!

Cheers-

TTB :wink:
 
Sorry about the bull, that's a bummer. I would definately keep some roasts etc. We are currently eating a 18 mo. old bull, used him last summer, pulled him off the cows, ate grass for a week or two and butchered him. Steaks and everything are great! good luck
 
FH,

Glad a bad situation was salvagable,

TTB,

You can read the labels on these drugs and Vaccines? I used tobe able to, but the last year it is a struggle. I was just lamenting this yesterday. It seems like that information is super critical, but they make the print SOOOOO small. Just a pet peeve of mine,



PPRM
 
PPRM said:
FH,

Glad a bad situation was salvagable,

TTB,

You can read the labels on these drugs and Vaccines? I used tobe able to, but the last year it is a struggle. I was just lamenting this yesterday. It seems like that information is super critical, but they make the print SOOOOO small. Just a pet peeve of mine,



PPRM
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Amen PPRM...I couldn't agree more.

Unfortunately the FDA makes animal health companies put all that stuff on there...and everytime a new product is brought to market it seems they require more info. I personally don't think all of it is relevant unless you're a PhD in pharmacology or toxicology, but there is some really important stuff on there...

Cheers---

TTB :wink:
 
The older we get, the finer the print seems to be. I wish they would put the important stuff (to us) at least, in a little bigger print. It is almost as if they don't want you to read it.


This bull had not had any shots of any kind. And I think I will have him age it a bit more and see what we get. I could use some roasts at least.
Aging it shouldn't hurt the hamburger, except more might be lost due to the aging process, but that never bothered me any.
 
Faster Horses: Seems that things like this are all part of raising livestock; at least you should be able to salvage the meat! Several years ago we were loading out our commercial cows to move to our north ranch and we noticed a commotion over in the bull pen. Change of routine got them upset and fighting......snapped the hind leg off of one of the best 2 yearolds in the pen. We found a place to butcher him but their cooler was broke down so we made arrangements with a store to hang the meat. The store butcher had a funny look on his face when we delivered 300 lb. quarters to hang.......he didn't even know how to cut such a large carcass! Thankfully the meat was excellent as it lasted us quite a while! BTW we grew up eating nothing but virgin bull beef and we seldom ever had a bad eating experience!
 
Sally Forbes, owner of Beckton Stock Farms at Sheridan, Wyoming, and a prominent Red Angus breeder, used to market her inferior virgin bulls through a meat market in Sheridan. I remember buying a half from her a time or two and it was good. At one point, she thought that was going to be the meat of the future.
 
Visiting in the feed store this morning, I mentioned my heifer that had choked to death eating afterbirth. The other fellow said he had sold all of his bulls but the best one, and had a bale ring full of hay in with it. He also decided to supplement the bull with a tub of molasses feed. They put out the tub, and took off the plastic wrap and put it in the pickup. As they drove away, the cellophane blew back out. Later in the day, the bull was found dead. He had choked on the plastic wrap. :???: :cry:
 
Soapweed said:
Visiting in the feed store this morning, I mentioned my heifer that had choked to death eating afterbirth. The other fellow said he had sold all of his bulls but the best one, and had a bale ring full of hay in with it. He also decided to supplement the bull with a tub of molasses feed. They put out the tub, and took off the plastic wrap and put it in the pickup. As they drove away, the cellophane blew back out. Later in the day, the bull was found dead. He had choked on the plastic wrap. :???: :cry:
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I have a neighbor that loses 8-10 cows per year from eating "Net Wrap" on his hay.

He STILL doesn't remove it either. :???:
 

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