Beef
Thank you for your interest. We are sold out until Fall 2012.
Healthy Grass-fed Beef
The grass-fed Scottish Highland carcass is noted for some very healthy benefits, including less fat, lower cholesterol, more iron and more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids than conventionally-raised feed lot beef. The breed’s thick hide and insulating hair means less fat is deposited beneath the skin, reducing waste and allowing the natural fats to finely marble the meat instead. Due to its leanness, you may need to adjust your cooking methods to ensure the best result.
Great Value
A Highland carcass yields approximately 60-65%, higher than many conventional breeds, giving you more meat for your valuable dollar. We currently sell beef by the 1/2 or 1/4 carcass. We may also offer 100% Highland ground beef on occasion; contact us for availability.
Happy Highlands Make Tasty Beef
Our Highlands eat only grass, quality local grass hay and haylage with supplemental salt minerals available free choice plus clean, fresh water. They pick their own apples and leaves from our pasture’s wild apple trees, and love to eat summer produce from our gardens. We do not use hormones, steroids or sub-theraputic antibiotics, but our animals do receive necessary vaccinations every year to protect their health.
You’re heard the horrors of feedlot beef, and unfortunately, it’s the most readily available beef to most U.S. consumers. Here at Skookumchuck Farm, our beef animals instead are finished and humanely slaughtered at home in their familiar surroundings, enjoying a little treat of grain, happy and stress-free. This helps ensure your meat tastes fresh, and, more importantly, is less stressful for the animal, the farmers and the rest of the fold. Every carcass is field dressed and hauled to the butcher to hang for 21 days. The butcher contacts customers directly for cutting instructions and to arrange the desired pick up date.
We are committed to offering our customers the same richly-flavored, healthy, lean Highland beef we eat ourselves.
