Bios Ranch

06/22/2026

This is what chicks who have been wet look like.

Mother Nature has not been kind to us this weekend. We’ve suffered massive losses due to various brooder leaks. It’s maddening on many levels. We’ve used this brooder setup for a couple of years now with no real issues, so for it to fail so dramatically this weekend was very disheartening.

Yeah, these birds are destined to die; but they’re supposed to die for an intended purpose and in a peaceful, not-traumatic type of way. When livestock die senselessly and suffer at all, it’s really hard for those of us who care for them. The only silver lining in a business sense is that it hits the pocket book way less hard to lose birds now than six weeks from now when we would have had all that much more feed cost invested into them... Everything else about this situation absolutely sucks.

We’re seeing photos of decimated crops in Kansas. A market we have product in had massive damage to their building last night as well. As much as these storm systems have sucked, it helps a little to know that we’re not the only ag/local food folks who suffered losses. We’re all in this together, rain or shine.

06/19/2026

We’re thrilled to be part of this absolutely stacked lineup of Oklahoma meat producers.🍗🍔🥩🌭

If you’re in Ponca City this evening, be sure to swing by & sample some Bios Chicken straight from the grill—and take advantage of that 15% discount on Sunny Creek Trading Post’s meat selection while you’re at it!

Join us for this fun Father’s Day Meat-Sampling event THIS Friday, 4-6pm!

Come try this nutrient-dense, wholesome, clean meat and sample some Mad Dog Everything Sauce while you’re at it! Tag your friends!

06/19/2026

These chicks are already about a third of the way through their time in the brooder! The exact timing of when they move from the more controlled environment of the brooder to chicken tractors on pasture depends mostly on the weather… We’re hoping to move them to pasture when they’re about two weeks old, and we’re crossing our fingers that the weather agrees to that plan!☀️🌧️🐥

06/18/2026

Finalizing your Father's Day menu? Let us provide the meats to grill up for your family's Father's Day feast!🍗🍔🥩

We'll be in all these areas on Saturday (6/20)--just in time for you to get your meats thawed for Sunday's meal! Place your order by 9 AM on Saturday to get in on this drop.

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06/17/2026

⚠️We didn’t expect this reel to get as much attention as it has! For some context, we’ve had horned animals for years. This is the first time we’ve banded horns, and we only did so because we were about to combine our herd with a group of animals that is polled (doesn’t have horns), and we wanted to do all we could to keep our horned cattle from throwing their weight around too much.⚠️

Some of y’all may remember when we banded horns on several of our Corriente cattle a few months ago. Turns out it about half worked.😅

Almost all the animals we banded have lost at least one horn; only one hasn’t lost either horn, and only one lost both. We went ahead and re-banded the remaining animals a couple of weeks ago. Most of them just managed to work the band off their remaining horn or break the band before the horn had a chance to be pinched off. The first banding took longer than we expected for the horns to fall off, so it may be awhile before there’s a verdict on these re-banded horns. Overall, though, it was an interesting experiment and something that we’ll likely do again.

06/16/2026

We’re back in the chicken business, and this is our largest batch of birds to date: 350+ little chickies that will be ready to eat by early August.🐥

We’ll have birds all the way from now till the first week of November, so, needless to say, we’ll be staying pretty close to home for the rest of the summer & fall.😅

Preorders for this batch of Bios Chickens will be opening soon! Join our monthly newsletter email list at the link in our profile to be the first to know when preorders open!📧

06/11/2026

We're headed this way TONIGHT!🚗🍗 Place your Bios Chicken order by 2 PM this afternoon for delivery/meetup this evening.

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06/09/2026

Y’all have bought up our first batch of Bios Chicken so quickly that we’ve decided to add a fourth batch of birds this season! The next round of chicks will be here a week from today.🐥 That means we’ll have our next full restock of Whole Bios Chickens and Bios Chicken Cuts in early August instead of late September!🙌🏽

We typically try to schedule our chicken season around the hottest months of the year and leave some time without birds on the ground in late June and July. The heat isn’t hard on younger birds in the same way it is for big birds, so we typically might have chicks in the brooder by early August but we try to schedule our season where we won’t have big birds during that timeframe. With Baby Bios coming when she did, we originally hadn’t planned to have birds of any age again till early August, but now this second batch of birds will be here over the exact part of the year we typically avoid.😅 We’ll be taking extra care to give these birds as easy of a life as possible and get them through the hot weather gently!

06/04/2026

Our oldest cow finally had her calf last week. We call her The Black & White Cow, for obvious reasons. Best we can figure, this cow is probably about 15 years old. She had her calf about a month and a half after everybody else, which is out of the norm for her.

Our best guess is that the late calf could be due to one of two things. 1.) She is just old and may have taken a couple of heat cycles to take. Or, 2.), We had a day last summer when we were out of town that a wire lifter failed and the cows didn’t get access to the grass we had designated for them to eat while we were away. We wonder if that nutritional deficit was too much demand on her old system and caused her to slough off an embryo; that would have required her to get bred again and would explain the delay in calving.

Regardless, in the end, she had a nice bull calf. He’s one we’ll keep an eye on as a potential herd bull in the future!

06/01/2026

We're headed through these areas tomorrow (6/2)! Now is a great time to get your hands on some Bios Chicken before we sell out for the summer.🍗☀

Place your order by 8 AM tomorrow morning for same-day delivery/meetup in these areas! Once we see your order come through, we'll contact you to make a plan for delivery/meetup.

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