[ars]

> What happens month 7?

What happens is they eat solid food and no longer need to nurse. See: https://animals.mom.com/happens-dont-wean-calves-9821.html

If you give them milk they'll drink it, but they don't need it anymore.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Well. Eventually you do have to kill some and eat them. Otherwise they will just keep breeding and take up all available space.

[caturopath]

Dairy farmers? Seems unlikely.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

You're joking but you'd be surprised. Apparently, all people of Indo-European descent are the descendants of ancient dairy farmers. Who bred, and bred, and bred- and took up, well, a lot of the available space. And dairy (rather, the ability to digest it) seems to have been a major reason for that taking-over.

Incidentally, are you Greek?

[caturopath]

Fascinating, thanks! :)

I'm not Greek.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

You're welcome and sorry- I thought your username was a play on words that would have made some sense in Greek.

[pcthrowaway]

I'm learning Greek. Curious what play on words that would be? In English it reads as a portmanteau of "cat" and "naturopath"

[deelowe]

The kind of milk you get from males isn't exactly something most people would want to consume...

Dairy farms send their cattle to slaughter as well. It just happens on a different timescale for the females.