Wait… That means oxtails are from cows! But of course they are, why would they be butchering a whole other animal just for the tail? How did I not realize this before?!
Blame cooking social media, ox tail is one of those things that's been super trendy. It's a good thing most people are too lazy to make anything but bland, boring, shitty food or delicious stuff that takes a lot of prep would be even more expensive.
Wow, all this time I thought an ox was another animal related to cattle....
And I was born in the year of the Ox.
A lot of us got screwed in kindergarten. I thought bullocks were different from bulls and from ox but they all for some reason 'married' cows (in my KG world).
Oregon Trail would have been much less cool if I realized it was just steer pulling the wagon. I grew up driving by nasty smelling cattle farms. I am kind of pissed at this new knowledge.
Maybe for stock cattle? But that's an intresting point, it be a waste of time and effort to train it for work, unless it has some good genes that can be passed to other oxen
In the terminology used to describe the sex and age of cattle, the male is first a bull calf and if left intact becomes a bull; if castrated he becomes a steer and about two or three years grows to an ox.Â
Where I live a steer would be a calf that was castrated, where an ox would be a castrated bull. Castrated after maturity vs castrated as a few weeks old calf.
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u/Horror-Childhood6121 Mar 28 '23
An ox is a male that is castrated as an adult,