Jersey bull steers are often treated poorly before being slaughtered for dog food after a few weeks. Other bull steers are usually permanently indoors: all alone for the first few weeks and then in small groups. They don't get fiber-rich food, such as grass or hay, which is very unnatural for ruminants. Because they grow up indoors and the low-iron food, their meat remains nice and white, but veal steers are therefore constantly on the verge of anemia.
Organic Jersey Bull Steers
Both show that things can be done differently in collaboration with organic Jersey farmers. These steers will have a nice life. They enjoy walking outside grazing herb-rich grass.
At first, they lie in the straw covered potshed, are fed milk, hay and organic granola before they go out to pasture with grass, clover and herbs.
Our bulls have a name
After a few weeks with the mother, the bull calves go to the Braamstruik farm. Together, the calves stay inside the potshed on the milk machine for six weeks. They get a name and a chip so they always get the right amount of milk.
Organic grass-fed Jersey meat
At the age of a few years, they go to the slaughterhouse. (When slaughtered), they weigh 250 to 300 kg, a lot lighter than a regular meat bull. But the slaughter costs are the same, so the cost is relatively high.)
It grass-fed organic Jersey meat is extremely tasty and is sold at your own farm shop, and in other health food stores. The organic meat is of excellent quality that can compete with the best meat varieties!
Dual purpose chickens ALLEBEI
Chickens hatch just as many hens as roosters. The hens are kept to lay eggs and, when they are laid, they still provide meat. The cocks are usually gassed or otherwise destroyed. Health food stores often contain eggs and chicken from the same fast-growing breeds, although they get better food and better conditions. The cocks, brothers of the hens, stay alive but are not suitable for meat.
Bee ALLEB 'EI' are the organic chickens of a breed, SASSO, obtained by crossing old, authentic chicken breeds. As a result, they are robust, social and healthy chickens where the hens and cocks live under the most animal-friendly conditions outside the pasture and in chicken carts. The strength of Sasso chickens is that the animals develop in a natural way. The hens lay their first egg at a relatively later age and the rooster is only mature after 16 to 18 weeks. The hens lay slightly fewer eggs than a current laying hen. This leaves them with more energy and calcium to live a healthy life themselves without broken bones. The cocks grow up outside, which makes the meat extra tender and delicious.
Chicken house
The Sasso chickens live outside in and around a mobile chicken house. The chicken house is regularly moved and they walk on a fresh piece of grass with clovers, insects and worms. They have plenty of space and can maintain their natural social behavior by scavenging, dusting and eating. The chickens can go in and out of the cart for fresh water, extra food, to lay eggs in peace and quiet and to go out in the evening.
Organic
The eggs of the ALLEB'EI hens and the meat of the ALLEB'EI cocks and calves is organic and has the EKO label. Distribution is via BD-totaal, ODIN stores and other organic stores.