Our Practices
Curious about our practices and how we raise our animals? Here you can learn all about our pastured pork, chicken, and beef here!
Our Beef Practices
Here at Stice Family Farm, we raise black Angus cattle. Our cattle are born and raised on our ranch, spend their lives on pasture, and are finished on supplemental barley that we put out in the pasture.
We practice rotational grazing, which is a regenerative grazing method that improves soil health. This entails moving the cows daily to fresh grass, rotating around "mini" temporary pastures on the larger pasture, which gives the rest of the grass time to grow back in between grazing. By moving the cows this way we help the land recover and gives the cows the best nutritional value.
Our Pastured Chicken Practices
We raise our pastured chicken right here on our farm. They roam free range on pasture in a sheltered portable hoop house that protects them from predators like eagles. We move the hoop house every 24 hours to fresh green grass so they always have available forage. Besides that, they are fed a supplemental grain blend.
Our pastured poultry is humanely processed in a small-scale USDA inspected and organic facility.
Our Pastured Pork Practices
We raise our heritage pork right here on our farm pastures, where they have plenty of space to roam and forage. We feed them a supplemental grain diet and use no hormones or antibiotics. We move our herd to new pasture every 2-5 days so they always have access to fresh grass!
We are a small-scale farm. Our average herd size of pigs is around 70 pigs. This means that they never have to live in crowded conditions (no big pig barns here—just a small herd on pasture)!
