Cattle

Raising a cow to slaughter is not a quick process. No matter what breed, no matter what you feed them, it just takes time. Time, and a whole lot of patience and diligence on your part to keep them alive and healthy until then! Out of all the other livestock species we might own, cows […]

Cows are just great, in general, and dairy cows are probably the best. They’re just so versatile! For just a little bit of effort you can be kept in a virtually limitless supply of milk that you can put to use for drinking, cooking, or turning into all sorts of wonderful dairy products, and my

If you’ve never been around cows, and I mean live in-person and next to them, it is easy to be fooled. These animals are just plain big! And aside from a few notably petite breeds like the Dexter, I think it’s safe to say that all cows fit legitimately into the large category of the

Do cows have upper teeth? It seems like a strange question, but if you ever paid attention to them eating, it’s a logical one. Anytime you see a cow standing around chewing on grass, you probably only see those small teeth poking out past their lower lip. The more I think about it, I can’t

Pretty much everyone knows that milking cows every day is an important part of taking care of them when they are in milk. But have you ever really stopped to consider how much milk you get from a cow a day? It sure seems like a lot when you’re milking them by hand, but how

Cows have a much shorter lifespan then humans. Everyone knows that. And pretty much everyone already knows that cows actually have a pretty brutal, short life most of the time. Raised solely for their meat, or put to work producing milk for their entire life before being put down, it’s kind of a rough gig

Have you ever looked at a big group of cows and wondered what they are called? Every animal species on earth pretty much has a special name or term for a gathering. Birds have flocks. Dogs run in packs. Fish travel in schools. Insects travel in swarms. How about cows? What is a group of

One essential calculation all cattle-owning homesteaders must perform is how much land they will need to keep their cows. This can be especially tricky, and expensive, because cows need more land than just about any other species of animal. Too little land and they will be crowded, unhappy and underfed from pasturage. Too much land

If you are sick and tired of getting gouged on beef at the grocery store, purchasing a quarter of a cow might be for you. A quarter of a cow is basically what it sounds like: 1/4 of the carcass yield of a slaughtered cow, typically. Sounds like a big slab of beef, but how

Ever wonder how many steaks you could get from a cow? It’s a good question whether you are buying or selling, and also one that is difficult to answer without considering quite a few variables. But we need to know. So, how many steaks are in a cow? An average-sized cow carcass provides between 100