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Optimizing Processing Time and Farm Sustainability

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What Does It Cost To Have A Whole Cow Butchered?

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The ideal time to butcher grass-fed beef is during the peak of grass quality, often during the spring flush, mid-summer, and fall. This ensures the best flavor and fat content. The farmer plans to increase processing to three times a year to align with these peak grass periods, making beef available more consistently. He also introduces the concept of multi-species grazing by incorporating mobile chicken coops (egg-mobiles) behind the cattle. The chickens scratch through the cattle manure, spreading it as fertilizer, eating worms and bugs, and in return, produce eggs. This symbiotic relationship enhances pasture health and adds another sustainable product (eggs) to the farm's offerings.

Goal: Understand the optimal timing for processing grass-fed beef to maximize quality and learn about the farm's future plans for multi-species grazing, including chickens for pasture fertilization.

Tools and materials

  • Mobile Chicken Coop (Eggmobile)
  • Chicken Feed

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there are people that don't know how to process and or raise and or choose the right time of year to butcher grass-fed beef when is the time of year to butcher grass-fed beef when the grass is at its peak that is when you process grass-fed beef so what we do here on the farm is we will process this year one time next year we will process three times we'll hit it in the spring flush where we get mid-summer and then we will get a fall processing and that's where the beef will become available if you're interested in Stoney Ridge farmer beef or if you're interested in raising your own beef I hope this was good information there is a link to our patreon site we will be offering beef to the public not via patreon soon however right now there's very limited Supply and we have a patreon co-op down below you can click that you can become a member it helps support the farm it helps to buy the hay and it hopes to bring nature and natural ways back to Healing the land I'm looking back because never trust a bull never turn your back on a bull they're always a little bit aggressive and they've got that testosterone so you got to keep your eyes peeled when you're around a bull guys I hope this information helped you a whole lot we will be offering seed stock in other words if you want to buy a cow if you're local here in North Carolina South Carolina Virginia Georgia and you want to buy a cow and bring it to your place you are very welcome to post a comment down there and or you can go onto stonyridgefarmer.com shoot me an email we can talk about that I'm not sure what we're going to do at this point with that but this is my farm this is a first generation farm and we're raising our animals the way I believe they were intended to be raised guys thank you so much please hit that like button subscribe to the channel I hope you enjoyed this video by the way the coop that you saw me moving a little bit earlier in the video is our mobile Coupe it's past your sanitation so chickens go in behind the cows scratch through the manure spread it out on the land eat all the worms and bugs and the byproduct is chicken fertilizer in other words that stuff that comes out the back of the chicken is awesome for the grass so there'll be green patches everywhere once we get this Incorporated in we'll have three eggmobiles the byproduct is eggs and fertilizer and the chickens get

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