What Age....

[Rogo]

to butcher for veal?

Thanks.


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What disease did Cured Ham actually have?

[agmantoo]

What disease did Cured Ham actually have?
trichinosis

[springvalley]

[QUOTE=Rogo;5135371]to butcher for veal?/QUOTE]

Well a veal is technically only to be fed milk, and calves are fed up to a few hundred pounds. A true veal is fed only milk, no grass, no grain, no hay, just milk. > Thanks Marc

[brentcu]

If it adds anything, there are two kinds of veal out here in France: white and pink.

The milk-fed-only one (white veal or veau sous la mère) is killed from three to six months of age. They usually run a beef breed calf (Limousin, Blond) feeding of its mother twice a day plus some extra off a nearby milk cow (e.g. a Normandaise).

White veal has lots of rules and they have a fancy site about it in French if you read it or want to use google translate: veausouslamere.com

It is pretty lucrative; you get a thousand Euros for the calf plus the Euro subsidy for the mother - another 200 to 290 Euros a year depending on what year you look at - plus land subsidies.

There's also pink veal (veau rosé) where the calves get to go in the field and eat grass. The grass makes the meat pink. The calves are slaughtered later; the farmers I spoke to mentioned 8 to 10 months for this. But remember, these are Euro breeds and grow at a different rate to British breeds. The pink veal is usually for private sale or consumption with the butchers having the white stuff.

[Rogo]

=== What disease did Cured Ham actually have? ===


>> trichinosis


Leave it to you, agmantoo, to come up with an answer for a joke! -LOL-