
#51 George Walker Multispecies Grazing in Minnesota
Ranching Reboot
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How Do Cattle Get Implanted With Growth Hormones?
i visited a ranch that i visited last year, had a bunch of stocker steers on it. All these cattle had been implanted with some growth hormone. When you put female sex hormones into a male animal, it messes with them. It messes with their emotional response and how they act. And in this particular case, the female hormonsinin about one % of the animals was so strong that each one of those had ten to 15 other steers chased them around, trying to ride em. Yow.
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