We want to be your personal farmer.
Our goal is to provide our family and customers with the highest quality nutrient dense pasture raised meats & eggs, raised sustainably and transparently from our farm in Desoto Parish. When you allow us to provide meats and eggs for your family you can rest easy and eat confidently knowing that all of our products were raised on pasture without any added hormones or antibiotics. We think everyone should know where their food comes from.
About our farm
C6 Farms is a family owned farm providing high quality nutrient dense hormone & antibiotic free beef, lamb, pork, chicken, eggs, & honey to customers in and around the Arklatex area. Our farm is located in an area known locally as the “Funston Bottoms” in Desoto Parish, Louisiana, about 4 miles northeast of Logansport. We use regenerative farming and grazing practices to help rebuild soil organic matter and restore soil biodiversity on our farm. We know that if something we do is good for the soil, it’s also good for the plants, which is good for the animals that eat the plants and for the people (that’s us) that eat the plants and the animals.
The Farm
Pastured Poultry
We raise Cornish Cross meat chickens on pasture enclosed in electrified netting to protect against predators. We only raise these during the warmer months so our inventory gets scarce December through March each year. Whole chickens and individual cuts are available and are processed by a USDA Inspected Facility.
Pastured Eggs
Our 135 Laying Hens are out on pasture 365 days a year. Everybody loves our eggs. A new group of 170 young laying hens will turn 5 months old and join our older hens in mid April 2024. We provide eggs for several restaurants & stores in the Arklatex and still make time to deliver eggs to individual homes in the Shreveport/Bossier/Stonewall area at least once each week.
Sheep
We have a rapidly growing flock of approximately 125 parasite resistant Katahdin sheep raised on pasture. We sell halves, wholes, & USDA inspected cuts year round. We also sell breeding stock as we are extremely proud of our genetics and management practices.
WHAT WE DO: Lamb year round w/ clean grass, clean water, loose minerals, and a portable electric fence for night time security. Our entire flock of 125 share a single quart scoop of sweet feed as a treat each evening when they are penned with the Livestock Guardian Dogs.
WHAT WE DON’T DO: Assist with lambing, feed hay, feed supplements, vaccinate, give hormones, give antibiotics, give wormers, trim hooves, dock tails, register our sheep, or provide shelters.
We sell wholes, halves, & USDA inspected cuts primarily to stores, restaurants, & individuals.
Cattle
Our rotationally grazed cattle herd consists of approximately 110 head of mama cows, bulls, their calves from this year, & their calves from the previous year which are being finished for processing. We replaced our Black Angus Bulls w/ Wagyu bulls in September 2023 as we continue to move towards improving the quality of the beef we provide our family & our customers.
Because of the recent back to back droughts, we moved from a 100% grass finished to a 100% grain finished operation in the fall of 2022. This has turned out to be a blessing as all of our customers made the transition along with us and are extremely satisfied with the resulting higher quality beef product that comes from grain finishing.
We utilize rotational grazing & do not use any hormones or antibiotics. We finish our cattle with an “All Natural” grain finishing blend provided by Livestock Nutrition Center in Teneha, Tx.
We sell wholes, halves, & USDA inspected cuts primarily to individuals, but also to a few stores & restaurants.
The Farm
Bees
We are not beekeepers but partnered with a local beekeeper three years ago that has put multiple hives on our property. He loves it and the bees love it because of the diversity of life and the abundance of clover, dewberries, our garden, etc here on the farm.
Check out our honey. Its raw & unpasteurized. Its fresh, local, & we’ll make you a sweet deal on it!
Forest/Pasture Raised Pork
We are continuously raising & finishing feeder pigs on the farm. During the summer, this is primarily done in the woods near the bayou. In the winter, we typically move the pigs to higher ground into the pasture for their safety. Our feeder pigs are fed a commercial finishing feed blend (no hormones or antibiotics) from a local feed mill and supplement their diet with acorns, nuts, berries, briars, brambles, grasses, roots, etc. They are rotated approximately once a week into a fresh paddock where they have plenty of shade, fresh water and fresh forage to dine on. Raising pigs in this manner requires much more effort than raising them in a confined space but allows them to act like pigs and do pig stuff the way God intended.
We currently have 2 Hampshire sows that we breed twice each year by Artificially Insemination to produce the optimal offspring. We are raising 3 more Duroc/Hampshire & Berkshire/Hampshire gilts (young females) that should become first time mothers in the summer/fall of 2024. Our goal is to be able to produce a finished group of feeder pigs (High Quality Pork) for processing in the 250 - 300# range every 6 to 8 weeks.
We currently sell halves, wholes, & State Inspected individual cuts to individuals.
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