12-11-2025, 02:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-11-2025, 02:32 AM by Aga Tentakulus.)
Of course, there was no breeding solely for hides; that would be utter nonsense.
It wasn't like today, where a vet quickly inseminates 20 cows in the barn in the morning. Gestation period: 1 year.
But the same still applies. Female calves go into dairy farming and males into meat fattening. Fattening in the second year of life.
Now it's like this. During the first winter, the mother animal feeds her young through the winter with her milk. In the second winter, enough hay must be stored for all the animals. Therefore, the slaughter time in the second year was mainly just before winter.
That is, and was, the normal procedure. Certainly not just because of parchment.
Record from around 1400. City of Salzburg approx. 20,000 inhabitants, meat requirement for cattle, 8 animals per day.
Calculate
Addendum:
Perhaps I should mention that this generally applies to regions where snow falls in winter. Unfortunately, I don't know about southern Italy or even Spain, etc.
It wasn't like today, where a vet quickly inseminates 20 cows in the barn in the morning. Gestation period: 1 year.
But the same still applies. Female calves go into dairy farming and males into meat fattening. Fattening in the second year of life.
Now it's like this. During the first winter, the mother animal feeds her young through the winter with her milk. In the second winter, enough hay must be stored for all the animals. Therefore, the slaughter time in the second year was mainly just before winter.
That is, and was, the normal procedure. Certainly not just because of parchment.
Record from around 1400. City of Salzburg approx. 20,000 inhabitants, meat requirement for cattle, 8 animals per day.
Calculate
Addendum:
Perhaps I should mention that this generally applies to regions where snow falls in winter. Unfortunately, I don't know about southern Italy or even Spain, etc.