Farm Products

Salad Bar Beef - Cattle are raised and finished on pasture here, which is what they were designed for. The cows are managed in an intensive rotational grazing system being moved to a new paddock every day or every two days. The constant rotation moves the cattle away from their manure (which helps to break the fly cycle) and allows the grazed paddock a rest period to grow back. This ensures the animals are constantly grazing the greenest, lushest pasture (or salad if you will) hence the term salad bar beef. This stands in stark contrast to feedlot animals fed with genetically modified grains, hormones, chicken manure, and any other by-product that can be found.

Pastured Broilers — Broiler chickens start out the first few weeks in the brooder house and from there they are moved to pasture for the remaining five to six weeks of their life. On pasture the birds are fed a grain mix and forage around in a floorless 10' x 12' x 2' shelter that is moved daily to encourage maximum ingestion of fresh green material. This also moves the birds away from yesterday's manure allowing sunlight (nature's sanitizer) to heat up the manure and kill all the pathogens.

Pastured Turkeys — Turkeys start out in the brooder house for three to four weeks to develop weather hardiness and then spend the rest of their life on pasture. They have a portable hoop structure for shelter in a paddock surrounded by an electrified fence netting which I call a Feathernet. Turkeys are moved to a new paddock every two or three days. This gives them fresh green grass along with a grain mix they receive.

Pastured Eggs — The hens are housed inside for the winter. The rest of the year they follow behind the cows in a portable shelter called the Eggmobile. They lay their eggs in nest boxes inside the shelter and are free to roam around in the pasture. The Eggmobile is part of the pasture fertility and sanitation program. The hens find fresh grass, bugs, and also help break the cattle fly cycle by scratching up the cow pies, which destroys the medium for flies to incubate in.

Salad Bar Lamb — I'm working out the production protocol for this. Sheep will be worked into the rotational grazing system with the cows. The animals complement each other with their different grazing habits and create a more even graze of all forage species. My sheep won't do drugs either.