A sheep can be culled from the flock at any age. Generally culling means that the sheep is being removed from the breeding herd because of age, something wrong in the genetics, too closely related to other animals in the herd or illness, not necessarily strictly for being killed for meat. Culls can become someone else's pets!
Lamb that is grown specifically for meat are processed before one year of age.
Sheep older than one year are processed as mutton.
Beef cattle can be culled at any age beyond 6 to 10 months old.
Calves, not cattle are used for veal. The meat that comes from calves that are slaughtered at the age that is younger than 4 to 6 months is considered veal.
Any age. Especially if you're referring to a mature female bovine and not anything else.
18-24 months
Nothing wrong with that. Dairy cows are slaughtered for beef as culls anyway, so it's no big deal if you slaughter a dairy cow and turn her into ground beef.
You usually slaughter beef cattle around the age of one year, at this time they have the ideal amount of conditioning (beef).
The average beef cow will live until they are about 15 years of age or longer, however, if they are being used for beef production they will live until they are about 1-2 years of age.
You only have half the story. It gets wierder. Why would you eat a hamburger made with beef? Ham comes from a pig. Beef comes from a cow, but we associate all things masculine with being "beefy." Why not big and cowfy? Phil
A cow is already at maturity because cows, whether they're beef or dairy, are female bovines that have had at least two calves and are at least 4 years of age, which is the age of maturity for a cow. So the question is pretty much pointless. But if you were to ask about a beef heifer or steer or calf that is such-and-such months of age, that's a different story.
The name that is applied to meat that comes from a cattle that is over one year old is "beef."
the average beef cow is 1,333lbs
A slaughter cow is a mature female bovine that has already given birth at least once or twice and has been culled from the breeding herd to be sent to slaughter.
horses do not have beef. beef is on a cow.
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That all depends on how productive they are, living conditions, health history and how favourable they are to a producer's cow herd. Typically age of a cow is determined by the producer. If a cow is no longer productive for some reason or other, she is culled and sent to the slaughter plant. Occasionally a producer will let a cow, particularly one that is a "foundation" cow, live to old age. How old is old age depends on the cow: some will live until they are 15 to 20 years of age or more. Others may only live until they are 3 to 5 years because they had to be culled for health, temperament or unproductive reasons and sent to slaughter.
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