Grass finished beef in the winter
Lately I have had a few questions about what grass finished means when we have snow and winter weather. It is obvious that there is not a supply of fresh green feed this time of year. Our cattle were doing some grazing up until the last week of December. The second week of December we started feeding some supplemental hay and now in the second week of January we are providing hay for all their feed because the snow is deep enough that all the pastures are covered. Where does our hay come from? All of our hay comes from the fields that we graze the cattle on in the summer–right here on our farm. It is the same mixture of plants that the cows get in the summer, only it has been dried and stored. Even in the winter we do not feed grain. We only use high quality hay. Look at the early part of this blog for pictures of cows last winter. I will try to get some updated photos here in the next few days.
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