Production

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Origin

The ox charolais is a large and constructed animal which one formerly harnessed with the tanks with hay and the agricultural machines. For this reason it naturally became today the floret of our beef breeds which one also calls nursing races since the calves, follow their mother who nurses them in pre spring until weaning, around 8-9 month. This, contrary to the dairy races at which the calves are separated from their mother as of the birth for not obérer the production of milk.

Two major axes

1. To produce meat, and to produce it in a respectful ethics of work of nature, which does not mean, quite to the contrary, to look at the things passively going from themselves
2. To intervene, like the large majority of the stockbreeders, without damaging our animal and vegetable inheritance but by using the forces and potentialities of this nature which we receive and will have to transmit to our successors.

The maintenance of the grounds

The grass is directly grazed by the animals, is mown for the harvest of hay or ensilage. Its maintenance lies mainly in the spreading of the manure, which improves the layer of humus where the grass goes enraciner, and of lime which will make it possible to improve the structure of our rather acid grounds and to bring back a grass richer in calcium, condition first for the growth of the animals. The ensilage, often criticized and wrongly, simply makes it possible to mow approximately a month before the maturity of the hays, and to allow a last thus pushes back of tender grass before heats of the summer.

Beside grass, I cultivate one fifteen of hectares of corn with a double aim:

1. To produce grain which I reduce in flour for the animals intended for the completion (or fattening); it is what makes it possible to tenderize the meat. Indeed that which comes from an animal only nourished with grass is certainly goûteuse, but too firm.
2. To be autonomous in straw intended for the litter of the animals during the season of winter. Last stage of autarky: the straw will be built-in with the manure épandu on grass, as we saw higher. The loop is thus buckled

Food

Bleaches on grass, hay, cereals, here 95% of the food of our cows. The remainder is consisted what is called oil cakes: nothing to see with the oil cake cheese of Poitou nor with crab! One thus calls the solid vegetable remains which result from the manufacture of oils. These oil cakes make it possible the animals to better develop what they eat and to better digest. I use personally a mixture of oil cake rich in flax particularly appreciated by the cows in completion as by the cows which have just calved to help them to face the requirements for their new maternity.

The herd: reproduction and descent

Essentially, they are our brave men large dads charolais who assure the descent of the herd.
For the first pregnancies of our young heifers (first calf cows), we have resort to artificial insemination. This method makes it possible to retain bulls on several criteria: facilitated vêlage (small calf), aptitude of calf for the skeletal and muscular development, aptitude of the girls for the vêlage and breast feeding, calm character etc That makes it possible to save an invaluable time for obtaining required qualities but cannot be retained for the whole of the herd because expensive and too greedy in monitoring of the animals. And then it would be so much damage to transform our courageous bulls into unemployed long life Because on our premises, with the Court, all our calves are born on the farm.

Landscapes and scrap-metals

All these processes and this ethics of work allow us, another pride, to be approved under the Rouge.Dernière Label touches in this general picture: landscape. We have here, men and animals, the chance to evolve/move within a framework of the woodlands. That wants to say fences to be supervised permanently, hedges to be maintained and to even replant if it is wanted that this natural environment continues in its vocation herbagère.

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Red label

We have the red label.