Monthly archive for August 2014

It has taken a long time and a lot of hard work but we have finally received some of our Mexican cattle at the ranch. At 3am Saturday morning August 23rd, Clay Butler arrived at Mt Vernon, Tx with 1 Guzerat Cow, 1 Guzerat Bred Heifer, 1 Guzerat Yearling Heifer and 1 polled Nelore bred heifer.

Paris, Texas native Rick Butler received his first Brahman at 15-years-old and has had a love for them ever since. He has owned and operated a few businesses such as Butler Medical Supply and Century 21 Butler Real Estate Services. For Butler these businesses have provided the luxury of travel which in turn inspired his growing passion for photography.

Dehorning calves can have a tremendous impact on end-product quality and value of feeder/stocker cattle. It may seem like one of the simpler management processes, but it still gets overlooked. Angus cattle, for instance, are naturally polled—and breeding cattle to Angus bulls is an easy way to remove horns naturally without the stress of using mechanical means.

We believe, first and foremost, that a bovine animal was put on this earth to function as a grazing animal. The further we deviate from the “grazing principal”, the more problems we create. Unfortunately the industrial agricultural model has created a “fossil fuel” dependent machine and totally ignored Mother Nature’s original purpose for this “solar powered” creature. There are two types of cattle today, “corn cattle” and “grass cattle”. Our many years experience has taught us that “grass cattle” will work in a corn environment, however “corn cattle” in a forage environment is not sustainable.