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Dairy Cattle &Devon Cattle for Sale &Events &Grass Fed Beef Sales &Jersey Cattle for Sale &Meet the Sabos &Sustainable Agriculture saboranch on 26 Apr 2012
Meet us at the Montana Farm and Ranch Fair, April 27-29 in Bozeman!
Come meet the Sabo Family and some of their Devon and Jersey cattle at the MONTANA FARM and RANCH FAIR, Friday April 27-Sunday April 29. Gallatin County Fairgrounds, Bozeman, MT.
Friday 5-8pm Saturday 10am-8pm Sunday 10am-4pm
There are loads of exciting exhibitors and great local food, and activities for the family.
Riley, Kiril, and Jenny Sabo will be having Milking Demonstrations, with a chance for kids to participate, at 11:00am, and 4:00pm, on Saturday at the Show.
We’ll be bringing a baby Devon bull, just 10 months old, and a 2 year old Devon/Red Angus steers, to share how excited we are about meat quality and QUANTITY on the 100% grassfed Devon cross cattle!
Photo below, SABO DANIEL, registered Rotokawa Devon bull at 2 years old in May, 2011.
Devon Cattle for Sale &Events &Grass Fed Beef Sales &Jersey Cattle for Sale &Meet the Sabos &Off Grid Lliving &Sustainable Agriculture saboranch on 24 Apr 2012
SABO RANCH FIELD DAY- June 16, 2012, 11:00am-4:00pm
Come see mother cows with their cute NEW calves at the Sabo Ranch Field Day, 6/14/12. Reserve your place by emailing us at saboranch1@gmail.com. Adults $15.-, Children under 12 FREE.
See how a Devon bull can put some extra BEEF on your Devon cross calves! We raise these Devons for their docility, easy calving, easy fleshing, and meat quality. Come see what all the fuss is about!
11:00–Welcome and Wander
11:30– Jersey Milking Demonstration
Noon–Tour of Ranch with Mark, Jenny, Riley, and Kiril Sabo, and Kim Keller and David Maxfield, new Market Gardeners for Pony Produce at Sabo Ranch.
1:00– Lunch: Sabo Grassfed Beef, Fresh Heritage Cornbread, Pony Produce Salad, Tapioca(Sabo pastured eggs and milk), Rhubarb, Lacto-fermented Drinks, Delicious Water!
After Lunch, there will be time to enjoy the creek, stroll through a field, ask Jenny and Mark, Riley and Kiril Sabo any questions, look at the new Market Garden, pat a pig, look for the bald eagle nest, soak up sun (we hope) or rain!
Come prepared for any weather. $15.00/Adult, Children 12 and under free. RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW (only 100 places available) by emailing to saboranch1@gmail.com, then mailing a check to Sabo Ranch, P.OBox 65, Harrison, MT 59735. Directions to SABO RANCH are posted on the home page of our website. Please leave your dogs at home.
See our new Jersey baby calf, and the pastured pigs that Riley Sabo, age 12, is raising this year.
Check out our Four Season greenhouse, self heated by sun and chickens. This photo was taken in February, in June the greenhouse will be filled with tomatoes and peaches!
Dairy Cattle &Events &Jersey Cattle for Sale &Meet the Sabos &Uncategorized saboranch on 08 Mar 2012
Owning a Family Milk Cow Class- April 28,2012
Are you interested in fresh, creamy Grassfed Milk?
Does your child have milk sensitivities that prevent consumption of this nourishing, nutrient dense food?
Come join us for a class on OWNING A FAMILY MILK COW! Saturday, April 28, 10:00-4:00, Lunch included. $75/person, Children 12 and under FREE, 4H members FREE. Sabo Ranch, 303 Pony Rd., Harrison, MT, 59735. 406-685-3248. Sign up here, or at http://www.brokengroundpermaculture.com/owning-a-family-milk-cow.html.
Riley Sabo, age 11, milks gentle Folly, a Jersey cross cow, every day for creamy, unpasteurized, grassfed milk for our family.
Many of us wish that we could have fresh, organic, grassfed, unpasteurized milk for our children and ourselves. We can! It takes some organization, but with access to land, a gentle house cow is not only possible, but an enrichment in many ways.
In years past, the family cow was often called “the Mortgage Lifter”, providing rich creamy milk for drinking, yogurt, cheese, butter, food for pigs, chickens, baby calves or bum lambs, manure for rich compost for a bountiful garden, and tender meat for the family freezer. Using the bounty from one cow and her yearly calf, a resourceful farm family can provide for the majority of their yearly groceries! And, any baby heifers can easily be trained and sold to pay for the rest!
Jenny Sabo and her sons, Riley(11) and Kiril(9), milk 5 cows daily, provide for much of their own kitchen needs, and train gentle “dude” cows for other families looking to start their own homestead. Jenny’s husband Mark puts up the hay!
Learn what goes into caring for and milking a family cow, how much land, shelter and food is required, how to choose a good “starter” cow, and how to raise a healthy calf. The day will also include a session on making butter, yogurt, kefir, whey, and soaking grains in soured milk or whey.
10:00am-4:00pm. $75/person, Children 12 and under, and 4H members FREE. Lunch is included. Saturday, April 28, Sabo Ranch, 303 Pony Rd, Harrison, MT 59735. (406)-685-3248. 10 spaces available for students. Minimum number of students, 6. See our Home Page for directions.
Devon Cattle for Sale &Events &Jersey Cattle for Sale &Meet the Sabos saboranch on 07 May 2010
Field Day June 19th- information
SABO RANCH FIELD DAYJune 19, 2010 11:00AM-4:00pm 303 Pony Rd, Harrison, MT
(just 3 miles off MT Rte 287, between Harrison and Pony, MT)
PROGRAM:
11:00- Cow Milking and Welcome and Wander
12:00- Tour of Sabo Ranch Cattle (Devon and Jersey) and other Livestock, and Off-Grid Living.
Tour Topics will include Off-Grid Living, Heritage & Grassfed Cattle breeding, A2 Milk development, Eating seasonally, Management Intensive Grazing, Redeveloping Locally Grown Food Sources.
1:00- All Local Food Lunch
(2:00-4:00)- Free Afternoon Classes
- Good Food/Good Health- Eating Local all Year Long
with
Tanda Cook and Sarah Marshall of Clearwater Health
- Family Dairy Animals- Keeping Your Animal Healthy, and Your Milk Clean
with Jenny Sabo, and Dave Scott of Whitehall,
Adults: $15.00 each, Children FREE
Only 80 spaces available,
Reserve your space now- (406)685-3248, saboranch@gmail.com
Much of this event is OUTSIDE, dress accordingly. Please leave dogs in your car, to keep them safe from protective mother cows. There will be a safe field for dog walking about 1/4 mile away from the cattle.
Bring your swimsuits and towels, and stop for a relaxing soak at Norris Hot Springs on the way home, just 13 miles south, near the junction of Hwy 287 and Rt 84.
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, saboranch1@gmail.com. Mail:P.O.Box 65, Harrison, MT 59735
March 2011 onwards, positions available, 2 references required, written or telephone interviews.
MINIMUM STAY, three months, unless you come with serious experience on another cattle operation. We recognize that there is lots to learn here, and we love teaching. However, the teaching requires lots of time and energy from us, Mark and Jenny, since we want to make every intern position at Sabo Ranch worth YOUR time as well.
TUITION FEES: $100.00 USD per week for the first three months (3 month minimum stay), which covers room and board, and time spent teaching.
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
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)
Mob 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
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.
Dairy Cattle &Intern Diaries saboranch on 21 Dec 2009
Sabo Ranch Intern Diary – Rebecca Kurnick
October 18, 2009
Lena has been showing signs of limping. Her left hind foot seems to be the problem. Vet Will Oliver came by to doctor her toe, which is a lot longer than it should be to begin with. It seems she has a genetic crack on the inside of her right toe. An infection was begining to make a home. Will Oliver filed down the dead material and used Bovibond to apply a plastic cap to cover the toe. Jenny puts great effort into keeping the herd as chemical free as possible, however Will used a local antibiotic in the fat pad to assist with the healing. After the visit we continued treating Lena by fasting her and giving her a dose of crushed garlic (approximately 2 oz) in the morning and evening based on Newman Turner’s (1950′s English organic farmer) philosophies, (“Cure Your Own Cattle”, Newman Turner, republished by Acres U.S.A, 2009).
Bad weather setting in October 18, 2009. Dairy Cows still on green grass
One characteristic of the Sabos is their commitment to the overall health of their animals, despite resistance met towards alternative methods of healing. Lena is a Jersey cow bred for her milk production and butter fat content. Naturally very thin and hard to keep weight on, she is not an “easy keeping” cow. Easy keeping is one of the biggest traits I have been looking at the past few months. Jenny said what you want to look at in a good cow is the “belly, bag, and boots”. With Lena I am seeing the negative effects of having poor feet.
Cupcake is maintaining about two and a quarter gallons a day. This week Cora had a snotty nose and was looking a little down so we fasted her for a day, giving us a spike in milk from Cupcake.
Dairy Cattle &Jersey Cattle for Sale saboranch on 16 Dec 2009
Jersey/Dutch Belted heifer for sale
Sabo Cora, Jersey/Dutch Belted heifer, at 18 months old, January 2011
Sabo Jersey cow Cupcake, age 6 or 7, is a small framed (46″ shoulder height), easy keeping, gentle cow. Cupcake is hand milked once daily, tied to any post we choose, without hobbles or any other restraint. Her 2009 heifer calf, Cora, pictured here, is Jersey/Dutch Belted (another grass-based, high butterfat dairy breed). Cora will spend her first month with her mother, 24/7, then gradually less each month as she grows (and drinks more of Cupcake’s milk!), nursing at will and learning proper herd behavior. Cora will finally be weaned at 9 months old, when we dry up Cupcake in preparation for her next calf, due June 11, 1020.
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 &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)
Dairy Cattle saboranch on 07 May 2009
Sabo Faline – Jersey heifer
Owner Riley Sabo, age 9, with Sabo Faline at 21 months. Faline has spent the winter with our Devon beef herd, in the open fields at 5000
“Sabo’s Faline”, born March 2008 (photographed March 2009), sired by New Zealand Jersey bull Beldene Dukes Landy. Sabo Faline is an A1/A2 calf and will be bred July 2010 to an A2/A2 Jersey bull, LIC Sire 190JE0038 Hawthorne Grove Zeus. For more information about A2 milk, see http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1259149 .
Faline’s dam, Folly, is an extremely “easy keeping” Jersey/Limousin cow who fostered two extra Devon calves last year without losing any condition. Folly produces about 2 – 2 1/2 gallons of milk per day on a once-a-day milking, 100% grassfed.
Questions?: Contact us at saboranch@gmail.com