Today, our stable has 220 heads of cattle, divided between two floors.
The upper level is dedicated to the fattening of beef cattle, the castrated males that we prepare for slaughter.
The lower floor is instead that of the nursery, where the 50 brood cows and their calves are left in the wild in two hectares of pasture.
In each group of cows we keep a bull, allowing them to reproduce completely naturally.
The well-being of the animal is always put in the foreground, with measures that aim at the health, but also at the quality of life of our animals.
The spaces are large and frequently cleaned, the power supply is 70% self-produced. The remaining 30% is represented by the bran, which we commission from a local mill to which we deliver our wheat, and by the straw used as litter for the animals.
In summer we feed the cows and oxen with the fresh grass of our fields, while for the winter we prepare sufficient stocks of hay.
As anticipated in the description of our self-production cycle, cattle cooperate in an indispensable way in corporate sustainability, guaranteeing us a supply of “m 0” (literally a few steps away) of fertilizers, which we use in the vineyard and in the orchards to minimize chemical interventions.