| Our beef cattle are free to roam in our 55 acre pasture which we like to call "cow heaven". There is a creek with a rock bottom which runs through the pasture from one end to the other and plenty of trees for shade. Our cows are mostly Hereford/Angus cross with a few Simmental/Angus cross thrown in because we like to see a brown cow now and then. Then there's Marge, our purebred Hereford. We use a Black Angus bull, so most of the calves are black or black baldy. The cows with Simmental blood sometimes have brown calves. These wonderful cows are range smart and when there's a storm coming it's neat to see them gather up the calves and head for a protected area in the summer or their 3 sided shed in the winter. We grow our own alfalfa/grass mixed hay for them to eat in the winter. They can eat more than one big round bale (1200 lbs) of hay per day on cold winter days. They know the sound of the backhoe which we use to take them the bales. When the backhoe starts up, they all come running to see if they're getting a new bale. We feed them grain in the winter and they come to the sound of a horn honking on the pick up truck. All in all, very smart cows! The cows are wormed every fall, and when we wean the calves in late fall, they go to the vet to get vaccinated, wormed and the males are castrated. Then we feed them for a month or so before taking them to the sale barn to be sold. We keep one steer a year to feed for our freezer beef. If anyone is interested in our freezer beef, please contact us. The steer will need to be fed for at least a year before he's the ideal weight for butchering. Our freezer beef is totally antibiotic and hormone free, so it's very healthy to eat. Our beef is processed at Beutler's meats in Lafayette, IN. Please call Becky at 765-363-2399 or e-mail badonohue@hughes.net if you would be interested in some wholesome freezer beef. |
Our Beef Cattle
