Crooked Oak Pastures

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Crooked Oak Pastures

We are Tyler and Brittany Tetzlaff and we grow pasture raised livestock, including cattle, chickens, turkeys, and sheep.

We are followers of Christ and we are excited to share this journey with you!

10/09/2026

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1-7) Chilly mornings & warm afternoons. We finished our last round of butchering for the year on a rather chilly morning the other day. The girls looked like they were ready to brave the arctic but they showed no fear when getting their hands on the knives this round. Lily was itching for more by the last bird. As the day went on, we shed our layers and finished up packaging in the warm sunshine. We’re so blessed to be able to do this as a family and to give our children this amazing childhood where they see exactly where their food comes from and how it can hopefully be a blessing to other families. We’re so thankful to God for all our customers this year and we hope you’ll come back next year. Thank you for your understanding with any changes we may have made to your orders after the tornado!

8) Clearing house. Tyler took the time this weekend to remove some pesky buckthorn which is an invasive species. He also continued to cleanup some trees that were down from the tornado.

9-11) Hot, hot, hot. 🌶️ With that cooler morning we also experienced a hard frost which drew an end to our pepper and tomato season. We spent some time cleaning up the garden and harvesting. We had an over abundance of peppers this year, which yet another thing to be thankful for and tried a few new things. We smoked ripened jalapeños to make them into chipotle peppers and we’ll eventually make some into chilis in adobo sauce. We also dehydrated some to use in future recipes.

12) Getting the boot. With our calf removed from the sheep tractor we were able to separate our ram from the flock to prevent early breeding. The lambs are now mostly weened from their mothers and we don’t want to risk having lambs in the middle of the winter so our ram, Fletch gets moved to his own little abode. We gave him a friend this year in hopes he would be a bit calmer as he was quite anxious last year being all alone. So far it’s helped tremendously.

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10/02/2026

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1-3)Stranger danger. Bottle calf cowlick got introduced to some new friends this week. We started off by moving him to a holding area and set up some electric fence to get him trained to electric fence. It didn’t take many shocks to learn what not to touch. We then introduced him to the flerd. The sheep were very curious and cowlick was cowardly. The steers didn’t take too much notice of their new roommate. After a few days though, he seems to be fitting right in and starting to understand the daily pasture moves.

09/27/2026

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09/24/2026

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Butcher week.

1-2) Twister Turkey Lessons. We gathered the turkeys from the pasture and got them butchered up. They were a big batch this year with one over 30lbs packaged. This year’s customers can also say they have a turkey that’s been in a tornado! With school in session, we used this as a lesson day for the girls on butchering turkeys. Papa walked them through cleaning turkeys and they got a hands on lesson.
3-11) Beefy boy. All hands on deck for the butchering of the beef. We split this beef between Tyler’s parents and ourselves. It was a full day of cutting, grinding, and packaging, but went very well for our first time. It was a good change of pace from poultry butchering. Everyone got their hands dirty and helped get the beef into the freezer. We are already looking forward to doing this again next year.
12) Fresh broth. The following day after butchering, Brittany made a big batch of beef broth with some of the leftover bones. Feels good to add fresh made broth to the pantry for winter soups and more.

09/18/2026

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1) Tader salad. Not much happening this week. We did harvest our potatoes from the garden though. We ended up with 3/4 of a wheelbarrow full. Not bad for one 20 foot row.

09/16/2026

Our last week of turkey chores for 2026!

09/12/2026

2027 garlic on standby. We trimmed and sorted our garlic harvest from 2026. The garlic here is a portion of the biggest and best for replanting this fall for our 2027 harvest. We don’t know the exact variety, but it’s what Brittany’s uncle and dad have been planting for years. It’s fun to carry on the variety for more years to come.

09/10/2026

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Fall harvest
1-2) First beef. We jumped into something we have never done on farm before and are processing our own beef. Tyler went out into the pasture and dispatched it. It was then hauled into the yard where we took the hide off and guts out before we quartered it to hang in the cooler. It has been helpful having the on farm slaughter come out the past few years as we could watch them and get a good idea of what to do. While we were definitely not as fast as the professionals and would change a few things for next time, overall the process went well. Tyler made a small walk in cooler this summer in anticipation for this day. So far it’s been working great and will be a nice tool to have on the farm. More to come as we cut up the beef in a few weeks.
3-9) Tomatoes. We also set to persevering some tomatoes and peppers this weekend. The total came to just over 40 pints of salsa and just under 50 quarts of tomato sauce. We also did some peppers as well to keep the pantry stocked. Brittany’s parents came up and helped with the sauce day, as well as the girls really enjoyed chopping everything up. We still have more tomatoes to go, but we put a good dent in filling the shelves in the basement.

09/04/2026

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Week of rebuilding. We are still finding random debris throughout the pasture every time we walk out there. Most of the week’s activities included rebuilding items that were damaged to get the birds back on pasture.
1-3) Heavy duty tractors. We decided to make some improved durability chicken tractors this time. Instead of a wood frame and chicken wire. We went with angle iron and expanded metal. While it weighs a little more, it should hopefully not need repairs multiple times a year like the old ones. Though I don’t think these are tornado rated. We got all the meat birds moved back out to pasture and they are enjoying their new home. We also butchered the bigger meat birds this week a little earlier than expected since they were now homeless. Fortunately all of those survived the storm!
4) New roost. The turkeys got a new shelter roost back on pasture. They were spending their time out there without any shelter the past few days so it was nice to get them back under some cover.
5) Big one. Brittany for scale next to one of the large oak trees that was uprooted in the pasture. This tree was about 50 yards from where the birds were. Wind speeds were estimated at 110-130 mph according to the interwebs to uproot a tree like this. With the clay ground being so hard and dry from the lack of rain, I can’t imagine the force it takes to push a tree like this over.

08/26/2026

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Tyler is back early from his overseas travel and just in time. Tuesday night we were blessed with some very much needed rain we have been praying for, but it also came with an unexpected tornado. The rain had ended and was clearing up, when we looked out our window across the pasture and could see swirling leaves above the trees. Then the sound came and we had less than 10 seconds to run to the basement as the tornado directly hit our pasture and was coming right for the house. As fast as it came it was gone, but not without some damage. Fortunately no human was hurt and the house was okay, but the pasture birds and woods did not do as well. We quickly ran out to the pasture to do a damage assessment before it got dark. We wrangled the turkeys back into their netting, and loaded the meat chickens that were alive and we could fine into the back of the truck and hauled them back to the egg chicken run to keep them contained. The next morning consisted of picking up branches and chicken tractor parts. Clearing and repairing fences. Tracking down as much as we could throughout the woods and pasture. It appears that the damage started about 1/4 mile from us and ended about 1 mile past us, with the pasture in a direct path.
1-3) our silvopasture was hit hard. Lots of large trees broken and uprooted.
4) the brand new chicken tractor was completely obliterated. Part of it is wrapped around this fence post.
5) one of the older tractors was quite destroyed. The other is completely missing, only a few pieces of wood were found. There were parts scattered completely across the pasture.
6) the turkey shelter lifted off and fell apart. Luckily no turkeys were injured.
7) the remaining meat birds were relocated. Unfortunately with the loss incurred, we will be scaling back reserved chickens once’s we get a better assessment of how many are left. More to come, we apologize.
8) pile of chicken tractors, rapid uncontrolled disassembly.
9-10) some of the yard mess.
11-12) bale ring was 50 yards into the woods after traveling 75 yards through pasture. Had to cut a path to get it. Thanks to Brittany’s dad and uncle for helping

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451 300th Avenue
Frederic, WI
54837

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http://crookedoakpastures.com/

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