HELPING PRESERVE THE RANCHING TRADITION

Not only is Susieville Cattle Co. a grass-fed beef supplier, but we are preserving a special breed of cattle that is both sustainable and healthier in terms of their environment and genetic makeup. Our interest in these historic cattle was twofold.  First, to establish a more healthy source of locally raised and grass fed beef, and secondly, to give southwestern cattle growers an option to learn a more sustainable way for them and their offspring to stay on the ranches and preserve the southwest ranching tradition. We are intensely interested in cattle breeds that have remained untouched by genetic modification, the Criollo being one of the few remaining.

WHY THE CRIOLLO BREED?

First brought to the New World by Christopher Columbus, the Criollo cattle spread out from Central America to both North and South America. They were the original breed of cattle that later brought us the Florida Cracker, Georgia Piney, Texas Longhorn, and Corrientes breeds.  Today, we have a great interest in the pure strains of the original Criollo found with the Tarahumara Indians in the Copper Canyon Region of Mexico. Our herd came from the Moris River Region of the Copper Canyon in Central Chihuahua, Mexico.  We traveled to Mexico and selected 15 mamma cows with calves, 15 bred heifers, 2 bulls and 10 one year old steers.  This started a nine month odyssey to get them health tested and approved to move across the border into the United States.

• The criollo don't overgraze, meaning they keep their environment healthy too
• They will eat native plants unlike European breeds
• They are friendly, and good at caring for their babies
• They are desert adapted animals and are very hardy
• Their linage is pure and has no genetic modification
• Their meat is very high in Omega-3 and Omega-6