It may be that they only feed them this while they are in those tight packed finishing feed lots CAFO's for only six to eight months.I just read this to Dh. Oh my, he's ranting as I'm writing this. He thinks people have lost their minds. That's a terrible thing to think of what they do. I sure hope our cattle stay up here and aren't subjected to that. I'm not sure what our protocols are exactly...but I believe they're pretty strict about what can be fed to cattle here. However, don't quote me on that.
I was out checking out our cattle and taking pics the other day.
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These calves were following me around...lol. Looks like a nice replacement heifer with the white underside and the black will be one of our replacement bulls.
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In the background are two of the bulls pushing heads. The guy on the right will be four. The guy on left was old in 2010. I think he'll be 11 or 12 now. Still going strong. I like that longevity!. His heifers should be great! And the bull we kept from him.
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I knew our condensed whey was going to a place for animal feed, I didn't know what for, I imagined probably for the protein added to dog food maybe?
I was shocked when the driver explained it. Like I said everything that's food, snack or candy, packaging, plastic, boxes, five gallon pails, gets shredded in a mixer, supposedly they filter out the plastic (I don't believe it), add our 40% solids condensed whey, mix it up, spread it on a drying floor, dry it out, bust it up and load it on trailers for beef feed. Mmm yummy.