Are antibiotics or growth hormones used in the grass-fed beef cattle?
Antibiotic use in our cattle is limited to clinically sick animals only. We never use sub-therapeutic levels of antibiotic in our feed. We never sell an animal that has been treated twice. All animals that receive antibiotics are given a shot if they are clinically ill. That means they are obviously sick and are running a temperature; cattle are susceptible to pneumonia and occasionally need to be treated just like people. We take very good care of our animals and will not let them suffer, so we treat them. This typically happens when the calf is about 400-500 lb., if it happens at all. The cattle are then grown on grass until they weigh about 1000 lb. At the rate of 2 pounds of weight gain per day, the cattle are on our ranch for 7-8 months. Therefore your beef has not been exposed to antibiotics for periods far in excess of any withdrawal period. On top of this we really don’t treat many to begin with due to our management practices. Our goal is to avoid this altogether in the near f
