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<blockquote data-quote="cowtrek" data-source="post: 251094" data-attributes="member: 2847"><p>Maybe maybe not... I was reading an article in Stockman Grass Farmer recently that high strung cattle usually end up as 'dark cutters' that the meat is hardly edible. I was discussing this with a neighbor and he agreed. He had a similar cow, couldn't pen and was breaking out of the fences all the time. They just got her with the 30-30 and butchered her themselves (they do it all the time) and the meat was dark and bitter and tough as shoe leather. When they're high strung or nervous the adrenaline burns up the meat. The article I mentioned was talking primarily about grassfed beef and how delicate the marbling is, and if you chase the calf into the trailer to butcher him or if he gets nervous/rambunctious at the slaughter plant they can burn up the marbling really quick in grassfed. Cornfed is so fat it's not as much of an issue. The article said that slaughterhouses in France specializing in grassfed beef have very quiet, soothing, well sheltered holding pens with plenty of water and feed and they handle them very gently to avoid stress. You sure want to get rid of her for sure because her calves will likely be that way too, and even if not she'll teach the others to be that way. Keep one fence jumper soon you'll have ten fence jumpers. </p><p></p><p> We had a crazy bull calf here while back we had to get rid of. Darn thing was SO nuts you couldn't get within 50 YARDS of him or he'd bolt and run for the hills. We managed to trap him in a hay storage pen and he jumped the panels to get out, taking the panel with him! Luckily he jumped into the crowding pen and we got the gate closed, but he had about 20 cows in there with him eating cubes at the time. He wandered up into the old chute in the barn and we closed him in but were just waiting for him to tear the barn down. We parked the tractor against the gates and the crazy thing STILL tried to knock them down. I went to town and got some tranquilizer to put on some cubes, but the vet told me if he was riled up he'd burn it off before it took effect. When he tried to break the gates down I called the vet to come shoot him with the dart. He went down and we pulled him out of the barn with the tractor, roped him, and tied him off at the back of the trailer. The vet popped him with the antidote and with me cinching the rope and the vet and assistant antidoting him he finally jumped into the trailer. Hauled him straight to the sale barn with his head tied to the trailer wall and when the sale barn guy tagged his back he went crazy and nearly broke his own neck. When we got him in the sale barn we unroped him and he ran for the holding pens. Boy was I glad to be rid of him! Went for the check a couple days later and he only brought 60 cents a pound. I wonder if he didn't try to knock the auction ring down or if he slammed into the wall and killed himself (I've seen it happen) and they just paid me 60 cents to get rid of me. Oh well.... Crazy SOB like that needs to go straight to the dog food truck! Good luck! OL JR <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowtrek, post: 251094, member: 2847"] Maybe maybe not... I was reading an article in Stockman Grass Farmer recently that high strung cattle usually end up as 'dark cutters' that the meat is hardly edible. I was discussing this with a neighbor and he agreed. He had a similar cow, couldn't pen and was breaking out of the fences all the time. They just got her with the 30-30 and butchered her themselves (they do it all the time) and the meat was dark and bitter and tough as shoe leather. When they're high strung or nervous the adrenaline burns up the meat. The article I mentioned was talking primarily about grassfed beef and how delicate the marbling is, and if you chase the calf into the trailer to butcher him or if he gets nervous/rambunctious at the slaughter plant they can burn up the marbling really quick in grassfed. Cornfed is so fat it's not as much of an issue. The article said that slaughterhouses in France specializing in grassfed beef have very quiet, soothing, well sheltered holding pens with plenty of water and feed and they handle them very gently to avoid stress. You sure want to get rid of her for sure because her calves will likely be that way too, and even if not she'll teach the others to be that way. Keep one fence jumper soon you'll have ten fence jumpers. We had a crazy bull calf here while back we had to get rid of. Darn thing was SO nuts you couldn't get within 50 YARDS of him or he'd bolt and run for the hills. We managed to trap him in a hay storage pen and he jumped the panels to get out, taking the panel with him! Luckily he jumped into the crowding pen and we got the gate closed, but he had about 20 cows in there with him eating cubes at the time. He wandered up into the old chute in the barn and we closed him in but were just waiting for him to tear the barn down. We parked the tractor against the gates and the crazy thing STILL tried to knock them down. I went to town and got some tranquilizer to put on some cubes, but the vet told me if he was riled up he'd burn it off before it took effect. When he tried to break the gates down I called the vet to come shoot him with the dart. He went down and we pulled him out of the barn with the tractor, roped him, and tied him off at the back of the trailer. The vet popped him with the antidote and with me cinching the rope and the vet and assistant antidoting him he finally jumped into the trailer. Hauled him straight to the sale barn with his head tied to the trailer wall and when the sale barn guy tagged his back he went crazy and nearly broke his own neck. When we got him in the sale barn we unroped him and he ran for the holding pens. Boy was I glad to be rid of him! Went for the check a couple days later and he only brought 60 cents a pound. I wonder if he didn't try to knock the auction ring down or if he slammed into the wall and killed himself (I've seen it happen) and they just paid me 60 cents to get rid of me. Oh well.... Crazy SOB like that needs to go straight to the dog food truck! Good luck! OL JR :) [/QUOTE]
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