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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1792162" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>True veal is just milk fed and they are iron anemic.... hence the "white" color of the meat. When I raised them in Conn. after I got divorced and before I moved to VA, I would feed up to a 5 gallon bucket of milk/milk replacer, each feeding, 2-3 times a day. All they would drink without getting scoury. They were bedded with straw which has little nutrition but it did add bulk to their diet. Any grain or hay would cause the meat to get "rose pink". I did not raise them in crates, they were free in a 12x20 area under the barn.... I had customers on a wait list... I raised holstein bull calves I got off the dairy I was milking on; This was in 1979-80 and I got $3.00 / lb..... LIVE WEIGHT.... for them..... They usually were 250-300 lbs when they would leave.... I only raised 3-4 at a time and they were usually 12-15 weeks old when they left. But there was alot of milk in them and didn't make much after all was said and done... and milk replacer was about $30-35 a 50 lb. bag...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1792162, member: 25884"] True veal is just milk fed and they are iron anemic.... hence the "white" color of the meat. When I raised them in Conn. after I got divorced and before I moved to VA, I would feed up to a 5 gallon bucket of milk/milk replacer, each feeding, 2-3 times a day. All they would drink without getting scoury. They were bedded with straw which has little nutrition but it did add bulk to their diet. Any grain or hay would cause the meat to get "rose pink". I did not raise them in crates, they were free in a 12x20 area under the barn.... I had customers on a wait list... I raised holstein bull calves I got off the dairy I was milking on; This was in 1979-80 and I got $3.00 / lb..... LIVE WEIGHT.... for them..... They usually were 250-300 lbs when they would leave.... I only raised 3-4 at a time and they were usually 12-15 weeks old when they left. But there was alot of milk in them and didn't make much after all was said and done... and milk replacer was about $30-35 a 50 lb. bag... [/QUOTE]
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