| Flathead
Farms is in the American Highland Cattle Association's Quality Highland
Beef (QHB) program and subscribes to its guidelines. When you buy
beef or breeding stock from Flathead Farms, you can be assured that
the cattle are raised according to these principles (taken from
the AHCA):
1. The animals are purebred Highland steers, heifers,
or bulls.
2. The animals have been raised and handled in a
humane manner. (When an animal is under stress, the meat is affected.)
3. No added hormones, anabolic steroids or sub-therapeutic
feed antibiotics have been applied/fed to the animal.
4. The animals will be slaughtered between 14 and
36 months of age, except bulls, whose maximum age is 24 months.
5. The minimum live weight requirement is 900 pounds
and minimum carcass weight is 450 pounds.
6. The carcasses will hang a minimum of 14 days,
depending upon back fat.
7. Finishing during the final 90 days should be such
that each animal gains 1.5 pounds per day.
These guidelines ensure first of all, that the beef is of the highest
quality attainable for leanness and low cholesterol. Second, being
raised humanely, finished slowly on natural pastures, and slaughtered
humanely, the animals are never stressed, so the quality of the
meat remains high. Third, besides the items mentioned in guideline
#3, no animal proteins are ever fed to these cattle. |
