Beer for cows?

[Cliff_Johns]

"Cattlemen are hoping to raise a better bovine with beer. About a dozen eastern Iowa farmers have been spiking their cattle feed with beer. "

Read all about it.

Beer for cows

Cliff

 

[PineRidge]

Cliff we tried to use that very same excuse to visit the local drive-through. However my wife quickly reminded me that we don't own any cattle. Guess I'll have to drink all the beer I bought myself. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[riptides]

Ahh,

You need to spike your food with it too. I don't think the cows were drinking the beer.

You'll need some recipies I suppose?

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Egon]

I beleive the Japanese have a form of finishing beef in which the animal is fed beer. There is a name for it but can't recall it.

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[johnday]

Egon; Drunken Cow Disease? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[RonL]

Egon

Kobe beef.

RonL

 

[Egon]

That is it Ron.

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Wannafish]

Beer battered beef ?

 

[chucko]

I drunk cow is a happy cow?

 

[cowboydoc]

Beer is ok but this is how the whole stupid mad cow thing got started. In those feedlots they feed cattle everything. It's always best to buy from a reputable breeder or rancher that feeds his cattle out on good old hay and grain. Much better beef and better for you.

 

[Egon]

Kobe Beef.

kobebeef

Edited long url

 

[Moon]

Whiskey for the men & beer for the horses! How'd the cows get into this?

Moon of Ohio

 

[EastTexFrank]

Because the Japanese want to charge $50 for an 8oz steak.

 

[GregMVT]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Egon

Kobe beef.

RonL )</font>

When did they teach cows to play basketball?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Egon]

Ahh shucks - to learn they send em up here to Canada where the game got started. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon

 

[MF1455v]

Sound's funny, but it works!

Back in the early 80's I was raising cattle for a high school FFA project and get money to start college. About 40 miles away we had an alcohol plant that made alcohol for gasohol. They sold the grain after it hand been used in the alcohol process for feed. It still had some alcohol content and the cows loved it.

That all stopped when the plant got a load of seed corn by accident. The chemical on the out side of the corn produced something in the milk that caused cancer in people. A lot of dairy farms were feeding the grain. The plant had to stop selling the grain all together.

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Beer is ok but this is how the whole stupid mad cow thing got started. In those feedlots they feed cattle everything. It's always best to buy from a reputable breeder or rancher that feeds his cattle out on good old hay and grain. Much better beef and better for you. )</font>

Not to muddy the waters, but Mad Cow disease was caused by feeding cattle the parts of the slaughtered cattle that were not marketable for any other purpose. The same thing happened to humans (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) that were treated with growth hormones that were produced from the pituitary glands of human cadavers. This is the type of genetic engineering that gives genetic engineering a bad name.

 

[cowboydoc]

Exactly my point. It wasn't only cows that were fed but other parts as well from other animals. Buy your beef from a reputable ranch and you will never have a worry.

 

[Junkman]

around here, we have super markets, not ranches..... do you ship????

 

[ThistleKop]

MF1455v, Jack Daniels distillery in South Mid Tn. sells various by-products of their processes. Local farmers buy these products for livestock feed. The by-products vary in protein content and are priced accordingly.

TK