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<blockquote data-quote="susie" data-source="post: 231028" data-attributes="member: 1553"><p>Just thought I'd chime in with my experience with grass-fed beef.</p><p> We had a Hereford steer grain-fed for 60 days, the beef was pretty good, not great. The steer was 18 months old. He was a small framed, about 525 pounds hanging weight.</p><p> Had a grass-fed steer butchered at 10-11 months ( didn't want to butcher that early, but circumstances warranted it). It is the most delicious tender beef I've ever had. He was a Hereford Shorthorn cross, tall, ended up with 515 pounds hanging. Butchered him late winter, so he'd been eating grass hay and alfalfa, with some produce scraps thrown in..</p><p> Have some friends that bought half a cow, grass-fed beef, it was so dry and tough they could hardly stand to eat it.</p><p></p><p> We've had the same experience with pork- the better you feed them ( not out of a sack ) but with real veggies milk products bread, etc, and theyounger they are, the better your end result. Makes store bought meat taste like crap.</p><p> Oh and had the same experience with pasture-raised chicken-- totally different product than mushy watery store-bought. </p><p> i think to produce great meat you have to have the animals on a high plane of real nutrition ( luscious pasture in the case of beef ) and butcher them younger.</p><p></p><p></p><p>JMO,</p><p> Susie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susie, post: 231028, member: 1553"] Just thought I'd chime in with my experience with grass-fed beef. We had a Hereford steer grain-fed for 60 days, the beef was pretty good, not great. The steer was 18 months old. He was a small framed, about 525 pounds hanging weight. Had a grass-fed steer butchered at 10-11 months ( didn't want to butcher that early, but circumstances warranted it). It is the most delicious tender beef I've ever had. He was a Hereford Shorthorn cross, tall, ended up with 515 pounds hanging. Butchered him late winter, so he'd been eating grass hay and alfalfa, with some produce scraps thrown in.. Have some friends that bought half a cow, grass-fed beef, it was so dry and tough they could hardly stand to eat it. We've had the same experience with pork- the better you feed them ( not out of a sack ) but with real veggies milk products bread, etc, and theyounger they are, the better your end result. Makes store bought meat taste like crap. Oh and had the same experience with pasture-raised chicken-- totally different product than mushy watery store-bought. i think to produce great meat you have to have the animals on a high plane of real nutrition ( luscious pasture in the case of beef ) and butcher them younger. JMO, Susie [/QUOTE]
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