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Sabo Eban, registered Devon bull, sired by Rotokawa 974, dam Rotokawa 930.  Full rumped, gentle, intelligent, fertile, 49″ at the shoulder.  Eban will build rumps, moderate frame size, easy calving, and gentleness into any crossbred herd, with excellent tender beef for grassfed production.  Ask our butcher (Wayne Worley, Montana’s Best Meats, Whitehall, MT 406-287-3457)!

Sabo Eban, Rotokawa Devon bull, just back from 6 weeks with our beef herd (photographed Oct 5, 2011).  Trim, fit, and ready for more work!  Eban is an embryo bull, raised by a Red Angus mother here on our ranch at 5200′ elevation.  Born May 19, 2009, Eban is ready for a long life of herd improvement.   Interested?  Contact us a 406-685-3248, or saboranch1@gmail.com.

Sabo Eban, showing terrific teat placement for balanced udders in his daughters.  $7000, embryo bred by Bakewell Reproductive Co., born and raised at Sabo Ranch, Harrison, MT 59735.  (406-685-3248)

SABO FRANCIS, a registered fullblood DEVON embryo bull born and raised here on Sabo Ranch at 5200' elevation in the foothills of the Tobacco Root Mountains of MONTANA, is a gentle, deep chested, full rumped bull with great feet. Sire: Rotokawa 982, Dam: Watson Farm Sarina. Born 5/22/09, photographed here in Feb. of 2011. FRANCIS is of moderate frame, about 50" at his well-crested shoulder. $3600. Questions? Contact owners Mark and Jenny Sabo, (406)685-3248, or saboranch1@gmail.com. Mail: P.O.Box 65, Harrison, MT 59735

SABO FRANCIS IS SOLD, Sept. 2100.  Subscribe to our website for news about 2012 calves!  email: saboranch1@gmail.com

SABO RANCH FIELD DAYJune 19, 2010 11:00AM-4:00pm  303 Pony Rd, Harrison, 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.

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

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.