THE COWS
While living in Greenville AL we started small with a few bred cows and a pair. From there we grew, and grew, and grew. With a lot of blood, sweat and tears we expanded our little farm of 39 acres to 100+ acres.
James spent countless hours clearing the land, planting seed, fertilizer, trenching water lines, pouring concrete pads and installing five wire high tinsile electric fencing around the multiple pasture areas.
At max point we had 61 steers, momma cows, babies, heifers and a bull.
We learned several hard lessons in 2020 - when a cow is off by itself, that's not a good thing. We lost 5 steers that became sick. We had a bull that was shooting blanks or had no swimmers as the vet told us, so we lost an entire season of potentially have our cows bred.
Overall would we do it again - yep! Hard lessons learned make the rewards worth it. We now know more than we ever could imagine.
Now the Sunbright TN update.....one thing we said we'd never do again was turn timber land into pasture land. Well, never say never! We spent a fortune trying to have land cleared, but after almost 2 years we have grass, fencing and the cows are enjoying life in a new pasture land.
We sold 27 steers in August 2020 and we currently have 34 left - momma's, babies, heifers and a bull.
We hope this bull knows what he is doing and that the cows are pregnant and we'll be having babies next year in April-June
2021 - we sold a lot of our cows knowing that it would be a challenge to move to them to TN.
We currently have 13 cows, 1 bull and 9 babies. We are leasing land with the plan on moving them to our TN farm next year - after we finish having the land timbered, putting up fences and planting grass....more work ahead!
February 2023 status - we currently have 27 cows, heifers, steers, bulls. We know we can't keep them all - but right now we're having fun figuring out.
