What's New On The Farm
May 4, 2024: Our 4th bull calf of the season was born at about 2pm. See Calves page for more info.
May 1, 2024: At 4:29pm we had a red bull calf born. See Calves page for more info.
May 1, 2024: At 10:50am we had a black heifer calf born. She weighed 65 lbs. See Calves page for more info.
April 10, 2024: We had another bull calf, dun colored, born today at 4:30pm weighing in at 67 lbs. See Calves page for more info.
April 7, 2024: We had a beautiful bull calf born at 5:13 pm weighing in at 62 lbs. See Calves page for more info.
December 26-29, 2023: Our bull, Wild River Bear, had a successful semen collection this past week and is back on our farm.
October 27, 2023: Our last two feeder pigs were butchered today and brought in to be processed.
October 13, 2023: We picked up our new future breeding bull, Wild River Bear, today and are very excited to have him on our farm. See Our Herd Sires page for more info.
September 20, 2023: Our farm welcomed a new addition, 3-year-old Eva, a Bernese Mountain Dog. She has a great personality and is a good fit for our farm and family.
March 2, 2023: We are looking forward to the arrival of two beautiful heifers from Star Lake Cattle Company in New Hampshire and our new future breeding bull prospect from Symbiosis Ranch in Michigan. They will be arriving within the next 2 weeks. See Heifers page and Bulls page for more info on them.
June 5, 2021: Elsa delivered a white heifer this evening about 7:00pm, weighing in at 67.6 lbs. The temperature reached 100 degrees again today which is not normal for us this time of year. See Calves page for more details.
May 20, 2021: Cocoa Bean had a yellow heifer at around 9:38am weighing in at 67.8 lbs. She always delivers very quickly and is a great mom. See Calves page for more details.
May 17, 2021: Clamity Jane delivered a beautiful red heifer this morning at about 9:47am weighing in at 73.8 lbs. See Calves page for more details.
May 8, 2021: Our first time heifer, Dahlia, delivered a bull calf this afternoon at 1:15pm weighing in at 72.2 lbs. She did an amazing job and is a great mama! See Calves page for more details.
April 20, 2021: We picked up 8 French Pearl Guinea keets today. Looking forward to having them roam around our farm when they get older and eat all the ticks and bugs!
April 12, 2021: Cora-Lee delivered a beautiful white heifer calf at about 8:35am, weighing in at 76 lbs. See Calves page for more info.
January 17, 2021: We welcomed Spring Creek Jackson and Clamity Jane of 5 Star to our fold today. Thank you to Dale Hathaway from Spring Creek Farm in Washington for these two great animals and for shipping them over to us.
December 30, 2020: Thank you to Chad & Leeann Wimer of Snake Creek Ranch and Jennie & Leif Anderson of Bluestone Ranch from North Dakota for purchasing Midway Meadows Jax. They will be sharing him as their herd sire.
November 8, 2020: We are excited to welcome a sweet weanling heifer, Beyond Hope Josephine (aka JoJo), to our fold today! She is an AI out of Orison of Culfoich and We Tired Juliette. Thank you, again, Melinda and Maryn Cowell from Beyond Hope Farms. We had a wonderful visit!
November 1, 2020: Thank you to Jim Sawatzke of Get Hoofin Farm for purchasing RSW Silver Bullet as their future herd sire.
July 17, 2020: Thank you to Tony Vang from Cambridge, MN, for purchasing RSW Cain for future butcher.
June 6, 2020: Cocoa Bean delivered a 70.4 lb bull calf at around 9:00pm tonight. See Calves page for more info.
May 22, 2020: The newest additions to our farm arrived this morning from Cackle Hatchery. We received 18 turkey chicks in a variety of heritage breeds that consist of Black Spanish, Royal Palm, Bourban Red, Blue Slate and Bronze Heritage. Excited to have turkeys around again!
May 16, 2020: Thank you to Greg and Joann Peterson of Bent Creek Farm for purchasing RSW Abel for their future herd sire. He is their first registered highland. We know he will be very happy at their farm!
May 2, 2020: Thank you to Bert and Cynthia Smith for purchasing our bottle steer calf, RSW Samuel, for their family pet. He will be getting lots of love at his new home, along with being reunited with Little John.
April 25, 2020: Thank you to Bert and Cynthia Smith for their purchase of our yearling steer, Little John, for their family pet.
April 18, 2020: At 3:25am Elsa delivered a silver bull calf weighing in at 70.4 lbs at 13 days overdue.
April 14, 2020: Calving season has begun! At 12:10am Cocoa delivered a 95 lb dun bull calf. Check out our Calves page for the newest additions to our farm.
December 14, 2019: We welcomed U Rock Cocoa Bean to our fold yesterday. Thank you to Mike and Katie Parish of U Rock Ranch for this beautiful girl and also for meeting us part way to do the transfer! Her sire is Stetson Ruadh of U Rock and dam is Taffy Bean of U Rock. Cocoa Bean comes from the well-known lines of Bart of Benmore, Philip 1st of Hi-Arrow, Gusgurlach of Windrush, and Du Boise Lecoq. She has been AI'd to Sunset Limited Edition for a 2020 calf.
October 12, 2019: Thank you to Jeff and Kim Johnson of Birch Lake Farms for their purchase of RSW Merida and Gray Owl's Breena this morning. The weather isn't the best, but we appreciate them driving up anyway.
August 20, 2019: I updated several pictures as well as our For Sale page. Our garden is doing pretty well and we have been busy canning.
August 7, 2019: Cora-Lee delivered a 71 lb bull calf , RSW Abel, at about 5:00 pm this afternoon. He was up quickly, ready to nurse. Mama and baby are doing great! See picture and info on the Calves page.
August 6, 2019: Updated a couple pages. All of the kittens have found new homes as well.
July 21, 2019: Updated a few pages this afternoon. We finally got 1st cutting of hay done.
July 13, 2019: Sophie's kittens are 6-weeks-old today. There are 2 females and 2 males still available. They will be ready to go to their new homes August 1. For more info, see our For Sale page.
July 1, 2019: We welcomed Stewart's Elsa and her steer calf to our fold today. Thank you to Josh Krenz from Windland Flats! We had a nice visit and enjoyed seeing his farm. You can see pictures and info on each of these on the Dams and Calves pages.
June 6, 2019: Ashley, our second outside cat, had 4 kittens tonight. They will be available to go to their new homes after August 8.
June 1, 2019: Sophie, one of our outside cats, had 5 kittens early this morning. They will be ready to go to their new homes after August 1.
May 10, 2019: We got our new baby chicks this morning, 39 total in 10 different breeds, from Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon, MO. We have been happy with the hatchery and would recommend them to anyone. Looking forward to when they start laying this fall!
April 9, 2019: RSW Cain, a red bull calf, was born to Cocoa at about 2:25 am. He weighed in at 80 lbs. Go to our Calves page for more info and pictures.
March 17, 2019: We welcomed CSF Dahlia to our fold. Check her out on our Heifers page. Thank you to Mark, Randi and Joe Johnson from Climbing Stump Farm! We enjoyed seeing their place and visiting with them.