> You can only mature the calves if you can spare the milk, and you get a lot more calories from just drinking the milk. Perhaps in the short term. But after 10 weeks calves exclusively eat grass. And after a year on…
"They did eat meat, of course, though the reliance on milk meant that beef was a rarity" I find that hard to believe. Cows need to be pregnant to milk. Roughly half of their calves would be male. Which were primarily…
> You can only mature the calves if you can spare the milk, and you get a lot more calories from just drinking the milk. Perhaps in the short term. But after 10 weeks calves exclusively eat grass. And after a year on…
"They did eat meat, of course, though the reliance on milk meant that beef was a rarity" I find that hard to believe. Cows need to be pregnant to milk. Roughly half of their calves would be male. Which were primarily…