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Sabo Ranch #833 and her sisters(all sired by registered Rotokawa Devon bulls), with 3/4 blood Rotokawa Devon calves at their sides, are for sale, $2200/pair.

If you like gentle, easy keeping mother cows with calves that will kick start your gourmet grassfed beef program, these pairs are for you.    10 pairs available, all mother cows born 2008 or 2009.  Calves sired by registered Devon sons of Rotokawa 974, mothers are granddaughters of Rotokawa 688 or Rotokawa 93, and also sired by registered Rotokawa Devon bulls born here at Sabo Ranch.

We will not castrate the bull calves until early July, 2012, so you have the option of receiving a herd, and a baby herd sire in this batch!

SABO RANCH, HARRISON, MT, 59735.    406-685-3248.    saboranch1@gmail.com

With a bit of a stutter as our first heifer lost her calf to an amniotic sac that did not get cleared off her calf’s nose (although her calf did not survive, she is now the happy and protective mother of a holstein!), Sabo Ranch is off and running on the 2012 calving season!

Sabo Ranch is expecting 20 Devon/Angus calves this year, ten 3/4 Rotokawa Devon calves, and 6 Rotokawa Devons.  The herd is healthy and growing, and we will have seedstock animals for sale from this point onward.  Devon/Red Angus females for sale, unexposed born May/June 2010, and just weaned (born May/June 2011).

Starting in 2013, Sabo Ranch will have Rotokawa Devon females and bulls for sale.  406-685-3248, or saboranch1@gmail.com

Photographer: Riley Sabo, age 11.

Baby heifer 251, sired by SABO DANIEL or SABO EBAN, registered Devon sons of Rotokawa 974. The first calf of the season!

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.

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!

Born May 2008,  #802 was sired by SABO ABEL, registered Rotokawa/American Devon cross bull.  Raised organically (not certified) and 100% grassfed, our free choice mineral program means a healthy cow and calf!   #893′s 3/4 blood Rotokawa Devon calf (due May 20-July 10, 2012) is sired by SABO DANIEL or SABO EBAN (both fullblood Rotokawa registered sons of Rotokawa 974).

#893 is sired by SABO ABEL, a registered son of Rotokawa 688. A larger framed cow with a tidy udder and great feet, #893 comes from one of our favorite Red Angus cows.

Questions?  Call Mark or Jenny Sabo, 406-685-3248.  Harrison, MT.  saboranch1@gmail.com  $2600.

Bred for a 3/4 Rotokawa Devon calf, which was sired by SABO DANIEL or SABO EBAN (full brothers, sons of Rotokawa 974) .  Start your beefy Devon herd with this easy keeper!

#802 was sired by SABO ABEL, a son of Rotokawa 688. Born 7/08, she is moderate framed, a gentle, attentive mother, and VERY easy keeping.

Born May 2008,  #802 was sired by SABO ABEL, registered Rotokawa/American Devon cross bull.  Raised organically (not certified) and 100% grassfed, our free choice mineral program means a healthy cow and calf!

Questions?  Call Mark or Jenny Sabo, 406-685-3248.  Harrison, MT.  saboranch1@gmail.com  $2600.

Bred for a 3/4 Rotokawa Devon calf .

Born May 2008,  #833 was sired by SABO ABEL, registered Rotokawa/American Devon cross bull.  Moderate framed, and a terrific, gentle mother.  $2600.

#833 Devon/Red Angus cow is bred to SABO DANIEL or SABO EBAN (full brothers, sons of Rotokawa 974) for a calf arriving May 20-July 10, 2012. Start your Rotokawa Devon herd with this gentle, easy keeping, proven young cow!

100% grassfed, and well nourished with free choice minerals for healthy cow and calf!   #833, like all our other cattle, has been raised following organic principles (not certified).

Questions:  Call Mark and Jenny Sabo, 406-685-3248.  Harrison, MT. saboranch1@gmail.com

At long last, Western ranchers can find the magnificent Rotokawa Devon cattle IN the West.  Sabo Ranch has added to their own stock of embryo Rotokawas with the purchase of 12 females from the Pennsylvania herd of the Rotokawa Cattle Company, which means that we are expecting 15 fullblood Rotokawa Devon calves in 2012, and 25 calves next year, 2013!

SABO EBAN, sired by Rotokawa 974, is one of our current herd bulls. An embryo calf born and raised here at Sabo Ranch, EBAN is photographed here in May 2011.

Come view these wonderful animals (Field Day June 16, 10:00-4:00), and consider using Rotokawa Devon semen, or a bull, to add depth, docility, and high quality grassfed beef genetics to your herd.  Devons routinely improve meat tenderness, add a finer grain to a crossbred steer’s carcass, and speed up the crossbred animal’s ability to finish on grass.

In addition to our purebred Devon herd, we keep a small herd of grade Red Angus and their Devon crossbred offspring on the ranch, so you can see in person what these Rotokawa Devons can achieve in the F1, first generation cross.  Devon crossbred calves are easy to calve, and extremely vigorous at birth.  In four years of calving we have assisted only one Red Angus heifer (with only one short manual pull in the field).  These Devon crossbred calves are routinely up and nursing within minutes of hitting the ground, even in the late May snowstorms that are the norm here at 5000′ elevation.  Every Devon crossbred heifer and steer calf from our Red Angus mothers shows a much better rump and body depth than their mothers, for better meat cutout at butchering.  Rotokawa Devon bulls have terrific foot conformation, and have repaired in the next generation the “cross-toe” hooves that sadly came with many of our first Red Angus.  These bulls are made for range conditions– they travel well, their red color allows them to function well in summer’s heat, and their high fertility allows them great efficiency in breeding.

Sabo Cow #833, one of the first Rotokawa Devon/Red Angus calves we saved(Born May 2008, photographed April 2012). All meat, docile, and a terrific mother, she is an excellent example of our crossbred calves!

Devon bulls are known for their fertility and high sperm count, and although these are docile and easy to handle, they quietly get the job done!  With 49 out of 50 Sabo cows bred this year, we can attest to their fertility!  Sabo Ranch Devon bulls are 100% grassfed and pasture raised.  Any photos we have show our bulls in their working clothes.  No grain primping, no extra supplements, no time lounging in a small feedlot.  Our bulls are 100% range raised, with their only extra inputs the free choice minerals they receive daily, year round.

Sabo Ranch Rotokawa Devon bulls are not weaned until 10 months of age, giving each bull calf ample time to benefit from his mother’s immune system and excellent butterfat.  Thereafter, Sabo Ranch Devon bulls are raised with the older bulls and steers on the ranch.  They learn proper herd hierarchy and behavior, and mesh smoothly into a buyer’s new herd as a result.  Grazing dryland pastures in the summer, and eating browse and alfalfa/grass hay in the winter, these bulls are hardy, docile, and ready to work!   As an example of their docility, last year our bulls found themselves across a barbed wire fence from the neighbor’s hot cows.  Only the 3 year old patriarch swam the arm of the lake separating him from the winsome ladies– all the yearling bulls just mooned on our side of the fence!  We have always found that when we need to “store” a Devon bull in a field by himself, he happily stays there, on the proper side of the fence.  Calm and intelligent, they are a delight to have on a ranch where our children routinely help us work cattle in the field, on foot.

Easy calving, docile, hardy, great on grass, tender high quality beef, great carcass cutout–  

Choose SABO RANCH DEVONS!

Sabo Ranch, Harrison, MT 406-685-3248.  Rotokawa Devon/Red Angus females currently for sale, born 2008-2011.  Call 406-685-3248 for availability, or email saboranch1@gmail.com.

#969 Rotokawa Devon/Red Angus heifer, due to calve May 20-July 10, 2012 with a 3/4 blood Rotokawa Devon calf..

Bred to registered Rotokawa Devon bull SABO DANIEL or SABO EBAN (full brothers, sons of Rotokawa 974). Born May 2009, unexposed until Aug 10-Oct , 2011. #940 born June 2009, sired by SABO ABEL, registered Rotokawa/American Devon cross bull. $2800.

100% grassfed, and well nourished with free choice minerals for healthy cow and calf!  Questions:  Call Mark and Jenny Sabo, 406-685-3248.  Harrison, MT. saboranch1@gmail.com

Pregnant Devon/Red Angus Heifer #940 FOR SALE

Bred Heifer #940 is one of our deepest bodied Rotokawa Devon/Red Angus heifers. Guaranteed bred, her 3/4 Devon calf is due to arrive between May 20 and July 10, 2012.

Bred to registered Rotokawa Devon bull SABO DANIEL or SABO EBAN (full brothers). Born May 2009, unexposed until Aug 10-Oct , 2011. #940 sired by SABO ABEL, registered Rotokawa/American Devon cross bull. $2800.

100% grassfed, and well nourished with free choice minerals for healthy cow and calf!  Questions:  Call Mark and Jenny Sabo, 406-685-3248.  Harrison, MT. saboranch1@gmail.com