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Kōrero: Beef farming

Feeding bobby calves

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Feeding bobby calves

Bobby calves – surplus male calves from the dairy industry – are fed milk from ‘calfeterias’. Most are slaughtered for the veal market when only a few days old.

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Robert Peden, Beef farming – Beef finishing and dairy beef, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17351/feeding-bobby-calves (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.