Purely Grass Feed Beef: 

We raise a small number of Angus and Black Baldy steers, feeding them purely on grass and hay. 

Most of the hay used in feeding out this last winter was cut on the property but some was from an adjacent property. All the hay we use now is cut from DeadHorseCreek itself. 

Grass Fed Beef as the New Health Food?

In the 1973 Woody Allen movie, Sleeper, he brought back to life after being cryogenically frozen for 200 years. A former owner of a health food store, he now finds in 2173 that everything that was once considered unhealthy is now a health food.

Now that synthetic transfatty acids in margarine is being recognised as much more detrimental to your health than saturated fats, it is belatedly being recognised that beef, especially grass fed animals (i.e. pasture  rather than lot fed) has significant amounts of unsaturated fats. This is derived from fats ingested from the grasses in just the same way that fish contain unsaturated fats from ingested plankton (explaining why farmed fish are lower in omega 3 fats.) 

Try a Google search for polyunsaturated fatty acids in beef. See for example:

Journal of Animal Science, Vol 78, Issue 11 2849-2855, Copyright © 2000 by American Society of Animal Science
"Fatty acid composition, including conjugated linoleic acid, of intramuscular fat from steers offered grazed grass, grass silage, or concentrate-based diets" 
P. French, C. Stanton, F. Lawless, E. G. O'Riordan, F. J. Monahan, P. J. Caffrey and A. P. Moloney Teagasc, Grange Research Centre, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland.

More about the cattle  

Angus is recognised as being the prime beef breed and Black Baldies are from a primary cross between Angus and another breed such as Hereford. Angus traits are dominant except that there is some white in their coats, often on the face. Black Baldies show some hybrid vigour compared with purebred Angus.

Managing the cattle (& the "organic" conundrum)

Discussed on this page.

To see a photo of some of the "Class of 2004/5" as of January 2005, click on this link.