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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1373303" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>We have certain cow families that have names, and there are cows that have real personalities that get nicknames even when they have numbers....but I don't have a problem with eating a "named" animal. Mostly anything that is likely to be designated as freezer beef gets a name like "rump roast or steak"....I have become much less "sentimental" as I have gotten older and am usually the one that says an animal has to go when it comes up open or is old or doesn't produce a calf up to snuff even when it is a pet. Cried when we had to ship our old red poll bull; he was having trouble getting up due to arthritis and was as sweet as any animal we ever had. Never saw him breed a cow but never had anything come up open when he was used in any pasture. But I wouldn't watch him suffer through a winter when he started getting so stiff in the hind leg, and he was getting some real age on him. I never make a steer a pet so don't have to feel bad about selling/eating them...not even the ones I raise on nurse cows or bottles. I regularly raise and have butchered jersey steers for my own beef and they are raised as bottle babies or grafted on nurse cows that I spend alot of time with in the barn lot. They are there for a reason and I try not to let them become something that they are not....I also feel better about killing one that I have raised as opposed to sending them off to a strange place and not getting treated decently at the end....And I have an "orphan Annie" too, and she was given a reprieve when we finally caught her out at pasture after her mother died, she isn't much, but gotta respect the will to live.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1373303, member: 25884"] We have certain cow families that have names, and there are cows that have real personalities that get nicknames even when they have numbers....but I don't have a problem with eating a "named" animal. Mostly anything that is likely to be designated as freezer beef gets a name like "rump roast or steak"....I have become much less "sentimental" as I have gotten older and am usually the one that says an animal has to go when it comes up open or is old or doesn't produce a calf up to snuff even when it is a pet. Cried when we had to ship our old red poll bull; he was having trouble getting up due to arthritis and was as sweet as any animal we ever had. Never saw him breed a cow but never had anything come up open when he was used in any pasture. But I wouldn't watch him suffer through a winter when he started getting so stiff in the hind leg, and he was getting some real age on him. I never make a steer a pet so don't have to feel bad about selling/eating them...not even the ones I raise on nurse cows or bottles. I regularly raise and have butchered jersey steers for my own beef and they are raised as bottle babies or grafted on nurse cows that I spend alot of time with in the barn lot. They are there for a reason and I try not to let them become something that they are not....I also feel better about killing one that I have raised as opposed to sending them off to a strange place and not getting treated decently at the end....And I have an "orphan Annie" too, and she was given a reprieve when we finally caught her out at pasture after her mother died, she isn't much, but gotta respect the will to live. [/QUOTE]
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