your source for Local Grain Finished Beef
Limousin and Angus Beef
About Our breeding Herd
Our COWS
Currently, we have approximately 90 Limousin breeding cows in our herd. Some of these girls are 10+ years. Year after year, they each give us one beautiful calf. They are gentle and excellent mothers.
Nearly all of them are from our own breeding over the years. They are turned out to green pasture in the spring with their calf and a selected bull.
In the fall the calves get weaned, and we bring the cows back home. We feed the cows all winter with the hay we have grown and harvested on our fields in Stanwood.
Our Bulls
At any given time, we have usually six to ten bulls that we bring in and out of breeding rotation, recognizing it is essential to maintain variety in the genetics of the herd. We get our bulls from large Limousin and Angus breeders in the Midwest such as Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana.
We select them for their disposition, conformation, and genetics. Purchased as yearlings, by the time they are two years old they are ready to be turned out full time with selected females.
Our Calves
Most all of our calves are born at home in the Spring. Once born, they are brought into the nursery (a large 12x12 pen with fresh straw) for the first 3 days of their life to bond with their mother. They get a dose of probiotics and an ear tag and are released into the field.
The bull calves, become steer calves. Some of the heifer calves are kept as replacements for the future breeding program. The rest of the calf crop goes into our beef system.