Rattlesnake MTN Farm

08/31/2026

No better way to celebrate Charlies Heavenly Birthday today than walking in the farrowing pen and finding a litter of white pigs. Sure do miss you Pappy!

08/01/2026

04/08/2026

Sale catalog for sale Saturday
We will have registration papers for purebred piglets when you check out.
Scott's Roasting will be there again this year. Come out and support another local farmer.

02/22/2026

4 Year old Sim/Angus Bull for sale. He's a Great Bull. Delivery Available

01/28/2026

A few pics from winter storm Fern. Our York Sow Ferns daughter had 15 purebred piglets. 3 sets of twin lambs. The cows are loving their new barn.

01/03/2026

A few of the bred gilts that we will have at the Pa Farm Show. Any questions please contact Mark Hall @ 814-5743274

12/16/2025

“You want HOW much for a ¼ cow?!”

Let’s break it down.

A beef calf right now, at 400 lbs, is running about $4.00/lb.
That’s $1,600 right out of the gate.

Now we feed that calf for roughly a year.
Even at a cheap all-stock feed — $12 per 50-lb bag — and averaging 3 lbs/day, you’re looking at around $300 in feed. But when you’re feeding more, or higher quality feed - keep packing on the cost.

So now we’re at $1,900, assuming:
• it grows on schedule
• doesn’t need extra time
• doesn’t get sick
• nothing goes wrong

But wait… you forgot hay.

Hay math (because cows don’t live on air):
• Avg weight during grow-out: ~800 lbs
• Intake: 2.5% of body weight
• That’s ~20 lbs of dry matter/day
• With hay at ~90% dry matter → ~22 lbs as-fed
• About half the diet as hay → ~11 lbs/day
• Over 365 days = ~4,000 lbs of hay

That’s roughly 3–5 round bales, depending on size and waste.
At $40 per bale, add another $120–$200.

So now we’re well over $2,000 — and we haven’t even talked about the butcher.

Processing isn’t cheap either:
• $1.75 per hanging pound
• Plus a dispatch/kill fee

And finally — let’s be real —
Farmers aren’t doing this for fun or boredom.
This is labor, land, feed, time, equipment, and risk.
We have families to feed too.

So when you see the price for a ¼, ½, or whole cow, maybe skip the snide remarks.

👉 You’re getting:
• A freezer full of beef
• Raised with care
• No mystery meat
• No supply chain games
• And you know exactly where it came from

That peace of mind?
It has value.