• Parting is sweet sorrow…

    …whenever it comes time to ship our animals.  Wooz is always an unwilling partner in that part of our business.  Here Michael Jones of Deerfield, Ohio reviews the seven animals waiting shipment to his Tierra Verde Farms. They’re at the vets, getting their travel papers.  Mike selected a veteran bred cow with a heifer calf at her side, three young heifers and two steers.  He tells us his grass fed beef business has outpaced his current supply so he needs both more females and some “ready” steers. Wooz insists on violating a cardinal rule of the cattle business: never name your animals.  With anywhere from 60 to 80 critters on…

  • All growed up….

    well not quite.  Traditional Devon Churchill is still probably not quite halfway there.  But you can see “the shape of things to come”.  He’s out of our favorite English cow…Tilbrook Cashtiller…by Cutcombe Jaunty. Churchill is just 18 months old but we’ve put him with a few cows to introduce him to the facts of life. This will be the last photos of our English calves for awhile.  Now back to regular programming.