First, Ivy is 100% grass fed. Her milk has benefits similar to meat that is grass fed. The milk fat is healthy. Ivy is not fed “preventative” or sub therapeutic antibiotics.
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On Wednesday I went out and did all the winter chores. The chores usually get done right as the sun is going down. This includes, watering two groups of cows, two hogs, and 3 horses, feeding horses and chickens, and throwing some treats (horse hay) to some of the cows. The hogs are eating out [...] While our pastures have been keeping ahead of us all summer we have seen the need to grow our small herd of 8 Dexter cattle, 2 of which are calves. We’ve been watching all the cattle boards and emailing breeders that were close by and found a good deal on a few cows that we [...] We chose to raise Irish Dexter cattle for a number of reasons. They are small, efficient, great foragers, docile, easy to handle, easy calving, dual purpose, and have great quality meat and milk. All these things things are easy to say or write about an animal but until we experience it ourselves we don’t really [...] So, our entire farm is being based on perennial grasses, legumes, and other plants that people may consider weeds. These plants feed the cows, hogs, and chickens to some degree and for the cows it is 100% of their diet. Our overall philosophy is that the more greens we can get the animals to eat, [...] |
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