UPDATE AS OF 2/20/2012 After a very dry summer, we have had good rains throughout the winter and pray that we continue to get some during this upcoming summer. T2T Dakota was the second high selling bull at the Magnolia Hereford Association sale at $3,000. He sold to Hailee Elder of Circle E Farms in Oden, AR. She will enter him in several shows, then her dad will put him with some black cows to produce outstanding Black Baldies. The two bulls we have listed for sale are now consigned to the Louisiana Bayou Classic. Also consigned is a cow (ILR Bonnett 185R, 42690791) who was the Grand Champion of the cow/calf division at the 2008 Magnolia Show and Sale. She will have at her side T2T Faith W016 Z06, born Feb 12, BW 78 lbs. Update as of 3/26/2012 Hailee Elder who now owns T2T Dakota won Grand and Supreme Champion at the Montgomery County Fair in Ida Arkansas. CONGRATULATIONS HAILEE
See our calf page to see the details on our new spring calf crop.
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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. |
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My grandson Chase and my granddaughter Savannah showing their heifers at the 2010 East Texas State Show.
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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 my 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. |
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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, developing a plan for them required a lot of research, talking to long time cattlemen, 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 Huth R006 Puckster W016 as a herd sire to cover our cows and heifers after AI'ing. The intent of our program is to be driven by Artificial Insemination until we develop the bulls that we want to keep as herd sires. |
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