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Antibiotics and Growth Hormones
We offer two groups of animals.
First group - animals raised by Santa Fe Cattle Co. These animals are never implanted with growth hormones or injected with antibiotics; however, they are vaccinated to help protect them from disease. These animals are only available during certain times of the year and must be ordered in advance. To help cover the extra expense of production there will be an additional charge based on hanging wt. Your Invoice will be designated as a "Santa Fe Cattle Co. animal"
Second group - animals raised by other producers.
Your invoice will be designated "first available animal". Santa Fe Cattle Co. completes the grass-fattening process. The animals are always on grass! This grass fattening process can be from 6 months for a young animal to 45 days for a 2 year old animal.
Santa Fe Cattle Co. selects animals that have a low probability of being previously implanted with growth hormones by the other producer and animals that would have been on grass their entire life. It is possible these animals may have received antibiotics at some point in their life but they will be free of any detectable antibiotic residue in their blood stream. While the animals are at Santa Fe Cattle Co. they are always on Grass. The animals are never implanted with growth hormones. During certain times of the year they are hand fed a small amount of a protein and or energy supplement to balance the nutrient in the grass; this improves beef quality and tenderness.
If you are concerned about corn allergies we can tell you what the animals have been fed.
Grass-Fed?
The USDA has issued a definition for the term "Grass-Fed".
It says for a product to be labeled "Grass-Fed" the animal can only have grass (forage) and its mothers milk for its entire life.
In Oklahoma the main supplement for cow herds is a grain based protein supplement, if a calf were to eat any, even though it was still with its mother, it would disqualify the animal from being "Grass-Fed" by USDA definition.
Our animals are always on grass never see a feed lot and are only supplemented with enough energy and protein to balance the nutrient in the grass.
How much grain based supplement do Grass-land animals receive compared to a feed lot?
In the average feed lot animals have a grain based feed available to them 24 hours each day, with no green grass at all. our animals are on grass 24hrs each day and are fed once each day a small amount of supplement that they eat in about 5 minutes.
Suggested cutting instructions for 1/2 animal.
Steaks T-bone, Rib and Sirloin are cut 3/4-1" thick, 1-2 steaks per package.
Chuck Best Roasts and grind the rest.
Roasts are packed 3 lbs each.
Brisket is whole.
Short ribs are ground.
Round 12 lbs cube steak and grind the rest.
Ground beef is packed 1lb per package.
Most of our customers run out of ground beef before any other cut. So don't be concerned about getting to much ground beef.
Extra Lean Ground Beef
Our standard cutting instructions will give you lean ground beef.
If you want extra lean ground beef you should not grind the short ribs or the brisket.
Extra-charge for deboning
Processors normally charge to debone the T-bone steak and or the Rib steak (Rib eye). This can amount to $30-$40 for deboning 1/2 animal. If you don't want this extra charge be sure you tell them you just want the normal processing.
Processing Plants
Moeller in Dover (north of kingfisher)
Ralph's in Perkins
Walke Brothers north of Catoosa
Organs
We do not normally save the organs other than the liver. If you want the organs we need to know before the harvest date.
Age of the animal
Our animals average about 18-24 months of age before they reach harvest weight. Occasionally one will go over 30 months of age. (The USDA does not consider the animal to be of less value until it reaches 42 months.)
Want to save fuel?
We estimate we use less than 10% of the fuel to produce our beef as that coming from a "feed lot".
