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Generally, if the cow is butchered after she is unable to produce milk (or older than about 3 years) the meat will become very tough. Diary cattle are usually used for ground beef for this reason, however, veal (meat taken from young calves) is high in flavour.

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Holstein steers actually have good carcass quality characteristics and are good to eat, just like any other beef steer. They may yield a bit less meat on the carcass, but it is just as tender and edible as from a beefer. If you feed them a bit of grain a few weeks prior to slaughter along with the grass and hay they eat, they will marble up really nice.

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