When I googled “veal crate” the same type of enclosure pops up as the pictures of calf hutches that were in your post, so I’m wondering what is the difference between veal crate and calf hutches? Is there a difference?
Hey Anon! You’re right, googling veal crates mostly turns up pictures of dairy calf hutches. A traditional “veal crate” was designed to restrict movement as much as possible, to ensure extra tender meat, and would restrain the calf’s head.
You’ll notice that basically every picture you can find of a true veal crate looks like it was taken on a Polaroid. That’s because they haven’t been in use for years now. Modern veal operations raise calves in group pens.
We mostly have scaber in here and they are always HUNGRY & we love feeding them leaf litter and veggie scraps. Heck, we've even started getting them to clean bones for us.
Very excited to maybe find a carcass/ do some food hunting and use these babies to clean a skull or other bones :3
reminder to my female followers that mother cows carry their babies for nine months and bond more with their babies than most human mothers do.
the babies are removed immediately after they can stand, to which the mother will scream and cry about for days or weeks. if the baby is a girl she'll be in line to take her mothers place once her mother is murdered for no longer being able to get pregnant. if the baby is a boy he'll be chained to a pole for a week or two to keep his muscles underdeveloped and then he will be murdered and delivered to your plate.
cows only produce milk as a result of pregnancy, to nurture her baby. cows do not produce milk for the fun of it. a cow who is no longer fertile will be killed immediately to save food and then butchered and put on a plate.
not eating their bodies isnt enough, if you arent a infant or a cow you should not be drinking (cow) milk.
Nurturing Tradition: Ideboku Farm's Artisanal Approach to Dairy Farming
Location: Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, Japan
Timestamp: 13:37・2024/02/28
Fujifilm X100V with 5% diffusion filter
ISO 800 for 1/250 sec. at ƒ/2.0
Provia/Standard film simulation
The Ideboku Farm is a meticulously maintained boutique dairy farm. Here, cows are milked to produce the milk used in manufacturing gelato, yogurt, and artisan cheeses.
Other shops can be found throughout Shizuoka Prefecture, with one shop each in Kanagawa Prefecture and Chiba Prefecture.
This dairy farm is the antithesis to industrial farming. The dairy products produced here are mostly sold within the local community at boutique shops and served to children at local school lunch cafeterias.
Although my photo only shows Holsteins, the farm also raises Jersey and Brown Swiss cows.
Holstein milk is best suited for drinking; Jersey milk is ideal for making butter and ice cream; and Brown Swiss milk is said to be most suitable for cheese and drinking.
This dairy farm was a nice change from the hustle and bustle of the Tokyo metropolitan area. Not only was the gelato mouth-watering, but seeing up close the clean barns and adorable healthy cows that seemed very healthy and stress-free.
Check out the full write-up (https://www.pix4japan.com/blog/20240228-cows | 2-minute read) where I include access information, Google Maps links, and sources for further reading.