UPDATE AS OF MARCH 8th 2010
Moved all of my cows to the Spring Season, and all have been AI’ed as of March 8th.

Bought two great heifers that will enhance my breeding stock. In Magnolia, I purchased  RIDGEVIEWS MISS 41-7  42978102, who was supposed to be open. But an unplanned visit was made to her by the Senior Division Champion Bull at Magnolia, STAR TAM BURSWICK T60 42831112. With the pedigrees and numbers on both of these animals, this should prove to be a great calf.

I also purchased MCMSPEAR 5L BOGIE’S GIRL W2 42984188 at the South Texas Hereford sale in Lockhart. She is open, has a great pedigree and with excellent numbers. She will soon be bred.

Texas 2T Farm in Nacogdoches, Texas was started in 2006 as a family run operation covering 3 generations of the Tinsley Family. My son Jeff raised a steer while in the High School FFA program. He learned a lot about animals while in that program, especially responsibility. He wanted his children, Savannah and Chase, to have that same opportunity and education.

I have always loved cattle and have had a few over the years, but my job did not allow me to really get started, so I decided that in retirement would be a good time to start.

I took Agriculture in High School in 1958 and 1959, but much has changed since then. When we started this operation, I basically had no knowledge of raising modern day Herefords. EPD's in the 50's were not heard of and when we started this business, they were pure Greek to me.

After purchasing 6 heifers, all offspring of show cattle, we thought this was going to be a great start. One of those heifers died, four did not grow properly and had to be sold off. We only have one of those original left.

We decided if we were going to raise Herefords, we were going to have to get some better animals and then have a plan for what we were going to do with them. Obtaining better animals was the easy part, deveolping a plan for them required a lot of research, talking to long time cattle men, some breeders and with Jack Ward at the AHA office. As a side note, unlike most businesses where they tend not to share information because they feel they would lose a competitive edge, all the AHA member breeders I have talked to are willing to share information and to answer all the questions I could think of. What a great group of people.

With all this input, we finally arrived at a plan for them. We have no Hereford bulls, so our program is to be entirely driven by Artificial Insemination until we develop the bulls that we want to keep as herd sires.

We do have a Registered Brahman bull which we use to cover our cows after they are AI'd. He allows us to stay on schedule with delivery dates. The Grand Champion F1 heifer shown by my Granddaughter was sired by him and the dam was one of my Herefords.

Texas 2T Farm
Gary Tinsley
1036 CR 105
Nacogdoches, TX 75965
(936) 564-4148
Cell: 903-649-0053
e-mail: gtinsley@texas2tfarm.com