Category ArchiveDevon Cattle for Sale
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 9 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, but her full brother, SABO BEN, will take over as our herd sire this summer, for our Red Angus cows, and our Devon/Red Angus first-calf heifers (born May/June 2008).
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
Devon Cattle for Sale & Grass Fed Beef Sales & Intern Diaries saboranch on 04 Feb 2010
Sabo Ranch Internship blog- Jules Feeney 2/3/10
- Jules Feeney at “Montana’s Best Meats” cutting room with Wayne Worley, manager
Entry two
February 3, 2010
By, Jules Feeney
As the days progress everything begins to flow more easily. We wake up; we do early morning chores; feeding chickens and moving horses and cows. Lately, I have taken charge of the chickens and ducks; refilling their food and water pails. When I’m finished feeding the chickens and ducks and Mrs. Jenny with the cows we head in for breakfast.
When breakfast is finished we Mark, Kiril and sometimes Riley and I drive down to the hay barn before feeding the cattle located on the lower fields. I have taken to driving the little white manual pickup truck that distributes the feed. When I return from this I usually assist Jenny with the grooming and milking of the dairy cows.
Only this morning I woke up at around five O’clock, did the early morning chores and hit the road; our destination, the butcher. Only 45 minutes later we were there. I was not sure how I would react to the slaughtering of cows, but I managed. What I did realize was that these cows have only been bred to be beef cows so they have been treated as such. This learning experience has been one of the best because I now know the way in which the beef is treated in its last minutes.
The ranch continues to be a constant flow of learning and experience that never stops.
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 & 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 & Field Day Farms Market Garden- 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, Large MARKET GARDEN, 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!, 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
– Soil testing and Foliar Feeding for hay fields
– MIG with laying hens
– Sabo Ranch Interns- the importance of training future Sustainable Farmers/Ranchers
– 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.