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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 268"><p>Can't argue with science, if that is what it is. There is a saying that figures never lie, but liars figure. I guess I am just afraid of "aggressive" implanting. I don't agree with the hormones in milking cows, either, but that is just my personal opinion. I see by your figures that it is no big deal. Nowadays, with the way the public in general reacts to what agriculture is doing in this area, I suppose I sound a bit hysterical. I will have to be more careful to indicate when something is my personal opinion (which the use of implants is) and when I have science or experience backing me up. Thank you for your points, because they sure changed my point of reference when considering implants which I (personally) will never use. I was going to say something stupid like "why castrate if you are going to replace the hormones a bull loses by being made into a steer", BUT.... who could handle a herd of bull calves. I have a friend who has enough space to allow his bull calves to stay bulls until they are fourteen months old. He says he is letting nature put the grow on the bulls. He is also in the business of trying to sell breeding bulls before they are a year old. If they don't sell by fourteen months old, he castrates them and sells them for beef.</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:Sailor_One@hotmail.com">Sailor_One@hotmail.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 268"] Can't argue with science, if that is what it is. There is a saying that figures never lie, but liars figure. I guess I am just afraid of "aggressive" implanting. I don't agree with the hormones in milking cows, either, but that is just my personal opinion. I see by your figures that it is no big deal. Nowadays, with the way the public in general reacts to what agriculture is doing in this area, I suppose I sound a bit hysterical. I will have to be more careful to indicate when something is my personal opinion (which the use of implants is) and when I have science or experience backing me up. Thank you for your points, because they sure changed my point of reference when considering implants which I (personally) will never use. I was going to say something stupid like "why castrate if you are going to replace the hormones a bull loses by being made into a steer", BUT.... who could handle a herd of bull calves. I have a friend who has enough space to allow his bull calves to stay bulls until they are fourteen months old. He says he is letting nature put the grow on the bulls. He is also in the business of trying to sell breeding bulls before they are a year old. If they don't sell by fourteen months old, he castrates them and sells them for beef. [email=Sailor_One@hotmail.com]Sailor_One@hotmail.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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