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rffrancon
5y ago
> You can only mature the calves if you can spare the milk, and you get a lot more calories from just drinking the milk. Perhaps in the short term. But after 10 weeks calves exclusively eat grass. And after a year on grass the riginal 10
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rffrancon
5y ago
"They did eat meat, of course, though the reliance on milk meant that beef was a rarity" I find that hard to believe. Cows need to be pregnant to milk. Roughly half of their calves would be male. Which were primarily valuable as m