We offer meat marinades, glazes, bastes rubs and spices specially suited for each kind of meat.  Local fruits and native fruits (elderberries, grapes, currents, prickly

Laughing Sheep Farm Store

pear, and algerita) are available in jellies and used as the fructose base in the meat condiments.

Several exotic meats are available, such as range buffalo, antelope, Alaskan salmon, wild boar and white tail deer or Axil (venison) are available.

We invite you to take your time browsing our site to see all that we have to offer. Many products are available in limited quantities.  Please call before to determine what types and amounts we have.

We do not use appetite stimulants, hormones or antibiotics in the meats we sell.  If an animal gets sick, yes, we treat that animal but do not sell it though the store. 

Grass fed meats are typically extremely lean (90-92% lean)  and contain Omega 3 fats, which are the acceptable fat, Grain fed meats are rich in  Omega 6 fats, which many people are being advised to avoid.  Many people think grass fed meats are strong tasting and tough. Although a lamb or calf is raised on the ranch, they are often sold to feedlots for their “finish”.  Our “finish” is the start.  It takes a lot longer to raise an animal on grass, and longer to get the package on the shelf because we properly age the meat. But the quality speaks for itself.  Producers found that by feeding of "finishing" the animal on grain for 90-120 days put fat around the meat and in the meat (marbling).  This process DID tenderize the meat, but mostly met the needs of the feed lot not the health needs of the consumer.  The animals would gain weight very quickly (more money for the feedlot) and would allow the meat packing facility to process the animal, package it and sell it as quickly as possible.  The old fashioned way, proper aging, provides a much more tender meat than marbling.

Our livestock only has one bad day

Our process uses proper aging techniques to offer you the finest, leanest and most tender meats.  Commercial production of meats has lost the aging processes.  For us to get your meat from the pasture to the table is a year's growing here, then a 5 week process to the freezer, and often we must take an order and ask for your patience.  Shopping a local farm is a bit different than a fast food or chain grocery store, but the end product is worth the effort.

Laughing Sheep Farms raises our livestock from birth through their entire

View of the Farm

 life.  Not only are all our animals grass fed (even the chickens), our livestock have little need for medical intervention (anti-biotics, hormones, appetite stimulants or other chemicals) because of their low stress home.  Hence the name  “Laughing Sheep Farm”. Our animals are kept in a very healthy environment, mentally and physically.   Many farms and ranches boast of the chemical free meats, but seldom address the animals' mental health.  A stress free environment is the key to a healthy animal.  Exercise, nutrition and happy animals take a bit more time and management. We will treat, doctor or repair this animal in a safe and humane method.   These products are not offered through our store, but each animal is allowed to stay until a more adequate home is found. 

In the past , people often bought their foods from the local farms.  Convenience of the town grocery store and CHEAP prices on their foods (cheap because of mass production and additives) moved the household buyer (usually Mom) away from locally grown foods.  These cheap foods, as we are learning, have their price later on down the road.  LSF offers fine quality locally grown foods.  Shop your local farm.  Shop local. Shop safe. 

Our pigs:  It is extremely rare to get grass fed pork, as most pigs are raised in confinement, on cement floors with complete processed feeds and NO exercise...Our pork products come from real grass-fed pigs.  They have not been fed grain.  The idea that pigs must be fed grain is preposterous and ignorant.  Our pigs range at large foraging for their

Ham on the range

 natural food.  They graze grass just like cattle.  Most of what they eat is grass, forbes, and leaves of trees.  But they also eat grubs, roots, berries, eggs, and about anything else they come across in the pastures and woods where they live.  They are not caged, penned, confined in dirt lots, nor raised in buildings.  Our pigs’ favorite meal is zucchini squash, cabbage and French Melon.  During the day they root around in the irrigation ditch, cleaning it of weeds and grass.  Then they go down to the big cottonwood and root around in a huge mulch pile we built for them.  The insects and worms are their favorites.  When they come in at night, they are fed their daily vitamins and greens (collards, spinach and too ripe tomatoes!). 

The other girls

Our livestock have their own home in the barn during the night and bad weather, but stay in the pastures during the day.   Exercise and fresh air is important in raising livestock with no intervention (drugs, hormones and antibiotics, etc).

Goats typically are known as weed eaters and browsers.  Our goats, which are Boer or Boar crosses do a wonderful job keeping the pastures clean, but also enjoy grazing the tall wheat grass.  The goats would prefer to eat weeds, but we still call them grass fed.  Goat is properly called Cabrito and is a southwest regularity and specialty.  Cabrito is a very moist meat, and best suited for the summer barbeque.

Sheep on the range.  The donkies protect the sheep from predators.

 The original sheep growers, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Canning of Eden Texas, has left us with many of his recipes for meat glazes, rubs, bastes and marinades. We made these from many of the produce and herbs grown right here at the farm.  These can all be purchase from our online store.

Our chickens are grass-fed and bug fed* and called free range.  I don't understand "free" and "range".  If they're on the range, they are eating free choice.  Our processing removes all skin, along with feathers.