Grassfed
http://eatwild.com/articles/superhealthy.html By Jo Robinson Most cartons of milk in the supermarket show a picture of cows contentedly grazing on grass. In reality, 85 to 95 percent of the cows in the United States are now being raised in confinement, not on pasture. The grass they eat comes in the form of hay, and the ground [...]
by Alyce Ortuzar It is obvious from this egg recall that neither the FDA nor the USDA has any understanding of nutrition or food safety. So they should not be telling Americans what to eat, what is nutritious, or what is safe. The industrial farm operations with one million chickens where the contaminated eggs come [...]
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Our new Jersey, Olive, was delivered today. I couldn’t wait until milking time tonight. She behaved beautifully while being led down to the stanchion. She had not been haltered regularly or been led. She didn’t let down her milk for me well at all but I expected that. She had been a nurse cow for [...]
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Clara was given a little Shetland bottle lamb this spring. Clara gets the job of bottle feeding him raw milk from our cows. He is such a cute little thing and they have been tagging around together for the past month. This picture was taken a few days after we got him. They had been [...]
Lily is our percentage mini-jersey heifer. She was sired by Munifordia’s Gamboge, an Old World Jersey bull and her dam is our herd queen, Heart – who is registered with the AJCA. She was the first calf we had born here on our farm. She is 30 months old now and due with her first [...]
Spring grass is coming on pretty strong now and it has made a world of difference in our milk. Not only in production but in color/taste/consistency. The butter is once again a nice golden yellow color and before too long, when the grass gets really lush, it should turn almost orange. Jersey’s metabolize beta carotene [...]
Baby pigs have got to be one of the cutest farm animals on earth. And boy are they quick!! They need to be to get out of their 700lb momma’s way when she wants move. This particular momma had 18 live piglets this spring – 18 WOW!! We were amazed as we continued to check [...]
For the last several years we have raised our own pork and offered natural pork and feeder pigs to members of our local community. We feed out about 7 or 8 hogs every year. We time the breeding of our sows so that they are farrowing in mid-March so that we can finish out our [...]
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has decided to make himself an enemy of the small family farm and freedom in general. Koster is suing the Brechard family for distributing raw milk. Here is the link to the article on the Springfield News Leader’s website. People have the right to consume what they deem to be [...]
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I just finished building our new chicken tractor. I combined ideas from several designs that I found on the Internet. The finished tractor is 8.5′ by 11.5′. The hoop is constructed out of two cattle panels. It is light enough for one person to move which is a big plus in my book. A chicken [...]
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