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Beef Cattle &Devon Cattle for Sale &Grass Fed Beef Sales saboranch on 22 Feb 2010
Our first Rotokawa Devon heifer- Sabo Abby born 5/11/08
SABO ABBY (Sire: Rotokawa 93, Dam: Rotokawa 958) photographed Feb 2010, after a winter eating only standing grass and 20 lbs/day of 1st cutting hay.
SABO ABBY, just after she was born in a May Montana snowstorm, the first of our 2008 calves. Abby is an ET(embryo transplant) calf, borne and nursed by one of our Red Angus heifers.
SABO ABBY is the first of our growing herd of purebred Rotokawa Devon cattle. The eldest of our 8 current Rotokawa Devons, Abby is gentle, intelligent, and remarkably easy keeping. Although she was carried by and born to our most slender Red Angus cow (in her first pregnancy!), Abby is showing her Devon genetics well. We will be harvesting embryos from Abby this summer. We look towards increasing our Montana-born Rotokawa Devons for ourselves, and other cattle ranchers seeking their easy keeping, easy fleshing, tender, 100% grassfed genetics.
ABBY is not for sale, as we are building our current herd. We will not be selling our Rotokawa embryo Devon heifers (Sabo Abby, Belle, Callie, or Dora), but will be harvesting embryos once from each of them, and might have embryos for sale if all goes well on that endeavor. ABBY’s full brother, Sabo BEN, is for sale, photos coming soon!
We have more Rotokawa ET bull calves (born May 2009) here than we will need, and will be selecting which to sell next spring, 2011. They are looking terrific at the moment, even in the dead of winter! Look for a post coming soon with photos of our 2009 crop of Rotokawa Devons!
For more information about our Rotokawa Devons, or our Devon crossbred cattle, contact us at (406)685-3248, saboranch@gmail.com
Beef Cattle &Devon Cattle for Sale &Grass Fed Beef Sales &Sustainable Agriculture saboranch on 12 Jan 2010
2010 Grassfed Beef for Sale
News:
Sabo Ranch will be offering Devon Grassfed Burgers, fresh for dinner at Bogert Park Farmers Market this summer, Tuesdays, 5-8pm. ALL LOCAL, with everything from ketchup to side salads grown and prepared as close to Bozeman as possible. We will also carry our regular frozen grassfed beef, available by the pound, at our Farmers Market booths.
Watch for us, mention you found us on the web, and get your first Devon Burger FREE!
TO ORDER YOUR 2010 GRASSFED BEEF, raised without hormones, antibiotics, or toxics on hay or pasture,
email: saboranch@gmail.com, (406)685-3248
2010 GRASSFED BEEF OFFERINGS:
Sabo Ranch Grassfed Meats CSA:
100% Grassfed BEEF raised by Sabo Ranch, Pastured PORK by Nate Powell-Palm, 100% Grassfed LAMB by Montana Highland Lamb
No Added Hormones or Antibiotics, No Toxics on pasture or hay, Pork grains are all certified organic Big Sky Organic Feeds.
Rolling CSA, which starts any month with 50% payment, remainder due within 30 days. CSA’s delivered mid month at Winter or Bogert Farmers Markets.
SMALL CSA: Choose A) All Grassfed BEEF, B) Grassfed Beef/Pastured Pork/Grassfed Lamb
5 lbs Frozen grassfed meats/month for 6 months–($37.00 value per month,$222 value). $210.00 total due.
2 lbs Grassfed Beef Steaks, 1 lb each beef/pork/lamb (mostly ground meats) per month–all BEEF option available also!
LARGE CSA: Choose A) All Grassfed BEEF, B) Grassfed Beef/Pastured Pork/Grassfed Lamb
10 lbs Frozen grassfed meats/month, for 6 months. ($75.00 value each month,$450 value), $435.00 total due.
2-4 lbs Grassfed Beef Steaks, Roasts, 2-3 lbs Grassfed Burger, Short Ribs, Ground Lamb, Shanks or Steaks, Pork Chops or Pork Sausage. Each month a bit different.
Sabo Ranch Devon/Angus Quarter Beef Option:
We will be harvesting only 6 Devon/Red Angus steers this year for 1/2 and 1/4 BEEF customers.
Harvest Date: mid October, delivery to Bozeman early November 2010.
10% off for 2009 returning customers! First come first served.
Free Grassfed Meats recipe book to all Quarter Beef Customers.
$5.00/lb boxed and frozen, 80-100 lbs of meat per mixed quarter (Rib steaks, Sirloin, T-Bone, Brisket, Round and Chuck steaks or roasts, Burger) is the basic option, other choices possible. $100.- deposit required.
TO ORDER YOUR 2010 GRASSFED BEEF, raised without hormones, antibiotics, or toxics on hay or pasture,
email: saboranch@gmail.com, (406)685-3248
Beef Cattle &Dairy Cattle &Events &Grass Fed Beef Sales &Intern Diaries &Meet the Sabos &Off Grid Lliving &Sustainable Agriculture saboranch on 28 Dec 2009
Internships available
SABO RANCH INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE
Contact us at (406)685-3248, saboranch@gmail.com
March-June 2010, and Sept-Dec 2010.
Same or different people possible.
Summer work here might also be possible, as work can expand here depending on help.
The program can be formal, or informal, hooked to the university or not, as the student needs.
2-7 days per week possible.
Food and Lodging provided.
We would like to be paid $100.00/week for the first three months, recognizing the extra time that goes into training and teaching someone the “ins and outs” of a sustainable beef/dairy ranch.
Once a student is competent enough, we might choose to leave for an overnight trip, at which point we will pay the intern to cover the ranch in our absence.
If a student is also competent enough, there is the option of staffing a Farmers Market booth for Sabo Ranch, which is also a paid position.
Benefits:
Daily delicious food, much of it raised on our ranch or by our direct friends. Eating LOCAL every day of the year!
Experience living in an off-the-grid home
Heritage breed beef cattle management
August & Sept will include embryo transfer work within our herd
Grassfed Jersey dairy cattle management (milking, breeding with AI techniques, caring for milk)
Management Intensive Grazing with livestock
Pastured Poultry
Pastured Pork
Farmers Markets, including fresh food and frozen meat sales
Field to Table management training in our Grassfed Beef program, participating in our family discussions about finances and future planning for the ranch
Publish your thoughts as you learn on our Intern Blog
Questions about our internship, or reference needed for us?
Contact Rebecca Kurnick, rakurn@gmail.com, who interned with us May-Dec 2009.
Beef Cattle &Dairy Cattle &Devon Cattle for Sale &Events &Grass Fed Beef Sales &Meet the Sabos &Off Grid Lliving &Sustainable Agriculture saboranch on 15 Dec 2009
Field Day- Sabo Ranch- June 19, 2010- 11:00 to 4:00
Jenny and Mark Sabo
- Sabo Ranch Field Day 2009
Come Meet the Sabos and Tour the Sabo Ranch – Saturday, June 19, 2010, 11:00am-4:00pm. Tent Provided this year for dry/shaded eating!!!
100% Grassfed DEVON and JERSEY Cattle, Management Intensive Grazing, Off Grid Living, Eating Local Foods, Grassfed Beef, Pastured Pork, Pastured Poultry. Only 150 Spaces available, Local Food Lunch served.
After Lunch SEMINARS: 2:00-4:00pm
1. GOOD FOOD/GOOD FUTURES- How to Source Great Local Food HERE!, Keep yourself Healthy all year on Local Food, and Why Your Purchases will Change our LOCAL ECONOMY for all of us.
2. FAMILY DAIRY ANIMALS- How to Choose the Best Genetics for Family and Friends, How to Keep Animals and Milk CLEAN AND HEALTHY.
Tour with Jenny and Mark Sabo will discuss:
– Breeding Jersey cattle to A2/A2 New Zealand bulls, tightening breeding season towards seasonal milking.
– Rotokawa Devon cattle: Harvesting embryos from “Sabo Abby”, our first Rotokawa Devon, implanting in other Sabo Red Angus previous recipient cows, using seasonal fertility patterns in cattle. Testing for A2/A2 status in Devon Herd.
– More Management Intensive Grazing (MIG)practices with beef cattle
– MIG with laying hens
– Sabo Ranch Interns- the importance of training future Sustainable Farmers/Ranchers
– Direct Marketing Grassfed Beef
– Devon Burgers for fresh food sales added to Bogert Farmers Market activities Summer 2010.
ALL LOCAL FOOD booth!
– 1/4 Carcass Beef Harvest, single week harvest, for compacted beef sales, premium Omega 3 levels in the grassfed beef
Tour and Meal: $15/Adult, Children 12& under FREE.
**$7.50/Young Farmers 12-21(free with reservation before 5/1/10)**.
Beef Cattle &Devon Cattle for Sale &Grass Fed Beef Sales &Sustainable Agriculture saboranch on 08 Dec 2009
Sabo Ranch Devon bull calf- born 5/09
This nice, full bodied bull calf is an example of the Rotokawa bulls Sabo Ranch will have for sale in winter 2010. These bulls are Embryo Transplant calves from the Rotokawa Devon herd now living in Massachusetts. 933 is of moderate frame, gentle, 100% grassfed, and easy keeping, a great example of the Devon breed’s ability to thrive on sustainable, ranch grown forages.
Beef Cattle saboranch on 06 Dec 2009
Sabo Devon calves- 2009
- Sabo Rotokawa Devon calves
We are very happy with this year’s crop of Embryo Transplant Rotokawa Devon calves. Pictured here, bull calf #630, and heifer #692 (they carry their Red Angus recipient mothers’ numbers in this photo), two of eight born on Sabo Ranch this year. These calves are easy keeping, docile, inteligent, and a joy to have around.
Beef Cattle saboranch on 08 Nov 2009
Devon bull “Sabo Abel”
Sabo Abel at 5 years old, the end of breeding season
“Sabo Abel”, born spring 2004, our current herd bull. Abel is an “embryo transplant” calf, born in western Montana. Parentage-dam: Harrier Field Farms 414, sire: Rotokawa 688.
Abel has 100% breed-back within our 45 day breeding season (three years running), and we are very pleased at how he has added depth, meat, and easy fleshing onto our Devon/Red Angus calves.
Beef Cattle saboranch on 08 Nov 2009
Rotokawa Devon Bull calves-2009
Sabo Rotokawa Devon bull calf, born may 2009
Beef Cattle &Dairy Cattle &Uncategorized saboranch on 24 May 2009
Calves and their Friends
Since our dairy calves spend at least half of each day away from their mothers so WE get some of the milk, we make sure that each calf is raised with a companion. Here, friends Devon steer calf Adam and Jersey heifer calf Ladine share a nap and a snuggle on a warm spring morning. (Sabo Ladine is an A1/A2 calf, sired by Beledene Dukes Landy)
Beef Cattle &Dairy Cattle saboranch on 09 Nov 2008
Managing Our Cattle
Our cattle are 100% grassfed, and also consume apple cider vinegar, kelp meal, and a cultured yeast , free choice, for greater health. We use fencing and management of our livestock to keep our watercourses clean and our land welcoming to wildlife.
Our Devon beef cattle herd is a mixture bred from our North Devon bull and Red Angus cows. We continue to select over time for gourmet, tender, flavorful 100% grassfed beef. We use no hormones or backgrounded antibiotics, and have no feedlots of any kind.
Our calves are born in the spring on green grass, in May and June, and are not weaned until they are at least 9 months old. North Devon cattle, in particular the Rotokawa Devon herd that sired our bull, are well known for tender, gourmet 100% grassfed beef.
Our Jersey influence herd of cattle is also 100% grassfed, grazing out in the fields all summer, and supplemented in the winter months with the most nutritious hay we can grow. Our breeding program seeks out the most adapted genetics for 100% grassfed Jerseys, slowly building a top quality herd for creamy milk and tender gourmet meat.
We milk our cows only once a day, and calves live with their mothers at least part time until they are 4 months old, then nurse once daily until they are at least 9 months old. Each Jersey cow, depending on her conformation, is given at least 2 months rest from lactation before she calves again, allowing her to dedicate her energies to the healthiest calf possible.
For more information about our grassfed beef, see the Guidelines and Philosophies page.