“I have to wonder how many of the proponents of “feed the cow only grass stems” on this thread have actually seen a cow on anything but TV much less raised them.”
This thread is amusing. We’ve been raising cattle on this ranch since the late 1880’s it’s about as free range as it get’s. Well over 100 years in the cattle business and this I can say without hesitation, a damn cow will eat anything it can get it’s lip’s around. They’ll eat grass, weed’s, tree’s, dead carcasses, bones of dead cow’s and dead deer. They’ll eat paper, plastic, strip anything rubber off your vehicle and I’ve even had them eat the belt’s off of pump jack’s. I had one that ate the coil wire off of a AJAX motor while it was still running (Bet that one made her udder shudder). They’ll drink salt water and love lapping up a little spilled crude oil. This is your average free range cow, these are the one’s hitting the markets.
And let me add that since they receive no corn or supplemental feeding they officially qualify as grass fed.