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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

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!

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.

Jenny and Mark Sabo have made a commitment to make healthy, grassfed meats and other foods available to families who care deeply about the foods they eat, and the health of the animals and land that produced those foods.

Sabo Grassfed Beef and Pastured Pork available for sale at the Ranch, Bozeman Winter Farmers Market (Jan-June 2009), Bozeman’s Bogert Park Farmers Market(June-Sept 2009).  Contact us for autumn sales venues.

Grassfed Beef Burger: $5.00/lb, Pastured Pork Sausage: $6.00/lb, Sabo “Ranch Dogs” sausages $7.50/lb.     1/4 and 1/2 Grassfed Beef carcasses available, limited availability.  $5.00/lb boxed and frozen.

Grassfed Meats CSA: January-June 2009.  SOLD OUT.  July-December 2009, still available.  10 lbs. frozen grassfed meats/month, delivered once monthly.   $420.00 total ($7.00/lb). (All Prices subject to change without notice) 

Grassfed Meats CSA includes, Sabo Ranch grassfed Beef burger and steaks, Sabo “Ranch Dogs” (beef/pork sausages with organic spices and sea salt, no nitrates or MSG), Sabo Ranch Pastured Pork breakfast sausage (organic spices, no MSG or nitrates), 13 Mile Farm organic grassfed Lamb, assorted cuts.

Gourmet Beef that is produced here on our ranch is 100% grassfed on fields that are not sprayed with toxic chemicals. Grains of any kind are never given. Our animals spend their lives in the company of other cattle of varying ages, learning to eat a broad variety of beneficial plants at their mothers’ sides until they are ready to be weaned at 9 months of age.

Pastured Pork is raised here on local barley or certified organic whole grain hog feed (call for current practices and availability).  Pigs are enclosed in movable pens that are moved frequently on pasture, or work to transform winter cattle bedding to compost, with garden greens and grassfed milk to supplement their grain ration.  Limited availability, order ahead!

Our cattle are never enclosed in feedlots, which often require the use of backgrounding antibiotics. Our cattle also grow naturally without the need for growth enhancing hormones.

In addition to summer grasses and winter hay, we (free choice) feed our cattle a custom mineral mixture we mix ourselves, kelp meal for trace minerals, and probiotic yeasts and organic apple cider vinegar for improved digestion and health.

Any animal which does get sick receives appropriate medications, and if it receives antibiotics it is removed from our regular meat program.

Jenny and Mark Sabo have also committed to improving our lands for our resident wildlife.

• - We use “Predator Friendly” management techniques for our poultry, changing our poultry management when necessary, rather than killing racoons, skunks, badgers, coyotes, and raptors which prey upon our birds
• - We cycle our grasses across the ranch, keeping all forage fresh and palatable for cattle and wildlife
• - We preserve natural cover for wildlife during breeding and wintering seasons, for both land and in-stream animals
• - We use no toxic chemicals which might negatively impact wildlife
• - We reserve standing dead timber for wild birds to use.