Tyler Turn Farm

10/20/2026

Sunday we had our 4th calf of the season and Eva’s 4th calf. We welcome Daisy to the farm. She had her mother’s face and her dad Hanks white tail.

10/06/2026

When we started our beef heard after not having Cattle at the farm for 40 years we were fortunate that Kimball farm sold us Georgia and sally. We usually like to raise all our cattle from birth until they go to the butcher. Well we got to the point where we needed to reduce our heard some so we sold some of our young stock to some friends that have young families who are just starting out farming so the kids can help build a herd with the parents. The Kimballs helped us get started so we enjoy helping others get started. We sold my friend Ed Berry our cow olive, heifer aunt E and calf Lacy. Olive is a granddaughter to Georgia. Ed’s son Conrad I believe is 8 and does the majority of the feeding and watering. Olive had her 3rd calf last week. Conrad is getting a great life experience.

10/03/2026

09/25/2026

About 11pm last night Lilian had her 4th calf. A nice health little heifer. In January our family and the town lost my great Aunt Tootsie. I asked my cousin Gary if we could use her name. He thought it would be a great idea. Welcome to the world tootsie.

09/22/2026

We are going to be sending pigs to the butcher in a couple of weeks. We still have 2 available. You can buy a whole or half pig. $3 lb hanging weight to the farm plus butchering cost. They should hang about 400lbs. Grain and vegetable fed only. Let us know asap if you’re interested.
Thank you.

09/20/2026

Back just before July 4th we were down to 5 old laying hens. Down from 400 just 5 years ago. We were trying to get out of the laying hen business because after 15 years we came to the conclusion that it’s a complete loosing money business as 3 days in that time we made enough to pay for grain do to we can’t charge what is needed as unlike gas, people just won’t buy local so we can cover cost. Well Mother Nature had a different plan. She decided to let one of our leg horn sit on some eggs. She hatched 16 with 13 still alive. There 3/4 grown now. Today the kids hen Lizzie showed up with 11 more. The leg horn is somewhere laying on more. Looks like we will get a fresh start in the egg laying business. Let’s see if it goes better this time

09/07/2026

Today we finished our last major field for the year. These two cousins represent the past, the present and the future at Tyler’s turn farm. Jacob started working at the farm and learned to run equipment when he was 11. He raised I think 9 cows over the years. He doesn’t help as much as he used to but still will help when we need him. Because of his experience running equipment at a young age and learning hard work he was offered a lucrative operator job right out of high school. Mason is Jacob’s 2nd cousin. He is 11 now and is on his second year running equipment. He has one heifer at the farm right now who may be pregnant. He wants to see the farm go on to future generations. Jacob is a 5th generation farmer at Tyler’s turn and Mason is a 6th generation farmer. Thank you boys for all your help.

09/05/2026

Farming has lots of highs and lots of lows. Wednesday One of our favorite heifers had her first calf a few weeks before we was expecting. She took right to the new born cleaning her up and letting her eat a few times. Unfortunately Darcie had birthing canal issues that we had to put her down. Only one other time in over 16 years have we had to put a new mom down. We put the new born in the barn and had every intention of raising her as a bottle calf right at our farm. 9:00pm Wednesday night a very good friend of mine called and said his 28 year old daughter had a week old bottle calf and was looking for a companion calf. I have known this lady since before she was born and have seen the great mother and hard worker she has turned out to be. 6:00 am Thursday morning she was at the barn and we loaded Dolly into her car. She and her family will do a great job raising Dolly. Thank you Jillian and Rob.

09/02/2026

While I was at work today Mason helped Darcie have her first calf. Said she immediately started to clean them up. She looks to be a good mother already