HNH Ranch

Devon cattle were brought to Jamestown in 1623 and were essential for settlers’ survival. For many years, nearly every family owned at least one cow.

Cattle in the New World had to endure harsh weather, rough forage and wild predators and fulfill multiple roles, providing milk, meat, hides, tallow and labor by pulling plows and wagons. Resilience and the ability to adapt to these challenges were valuable traits.

As more immigrants arrived, various multipurpose breeds from the Netherlands, England, Sweden, France and other regions were introduced to the New World. By the late 1600s, selective breeding led to the development of a multi-purpose, line-backed patterned cattle breed, now known as the Randall Lineback, which became common across New England.

High Indexing NSIP
Registered Katahdin Ram For Sale
KRK genetics.
4yrs old, RR. I have a lot of his daughters and its time for him to move on.
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Salmon Faverolle eggs are going in the incubator this week! These will mostly be retained for our breeding program. But we offer custom hatching! If you are interested in a custom hatch please reach out ASAP.

Everything lately has been about the sheep and goats so here's a cow appreciation post!

We ended lambing just in time to roll into "spring" calving. We got a little off schedule (our fault, not the cows) so we are calving a little later than us typical here.

The grass is coming on strong! The cows almost dissappear on the pasture. FYI, we do not fertilize or do anything special with our pastures. We strip graze/rotational graze our cattle. Each day they get a strip to graze and they are our "fertilizer". The section gets grazed for one day and then a rest of atleast 8 weeks. We do not do any regular deworming either which harms the beneficial insects that make up the healthy soil system. Beef done right - chemical free and raised on nature.

This little guy is looking for a brush clearing or future pack goat position.
He's 9 weeks old, still taking a bottle, but also eating food well. He was the smallest of quads and has been bottle fed so hes very well socialized (is my kids favorite). Will be banded (wethered) before he leaves. Good genetics and size and behind him. Clean tested herd.
$150

This ram is a tank! 90lbs at 80 days. NO grain. Mommas milk, hay and pasture is all he's had. Hair sheep can definitely compete with wool sheep market with the right genetics!

Last lamb of the year!!
We ended up with a total of 21 lambs - 12 ewe lambs and 9 ram lambs.

A beautiful day to have lambs. Our 4th set of twins on first time lambing ewes (out of 9).

One more to go!

We've had a number of lambs or the last two weeks. Two more ewes to go and we're done!
"Tiny Tim" was born at 5.2 lbs, half or more the size of a typical lamb, but hes been a fighter!

This is why we eat em!!
My burger was extra tasty tonight 😋