TC Highlands Farm

12/31/2025

Moments we live for with friends we can’t live without.

12/31/2025

There were lots of farm moments to document in 2025, as in every year previous but I’ll say it again, it’s the people we share them with ❤️. In between farm work and cow shows, full time jobs and kids we managed to have a heck of a time with our friends.

12/27/2025

TC Raven is the cutest heifer! She came out smart, strong and vigorous and hasn’t stopped since. She gives her mom a workout keeping up with her.

12/22/2025

Yesterday was warm and sunny 😎

12/21/2025

If a cow that is nursing a calf or has just weaned one has one quarter/teat swollen, tight, painful to the touch you may want to get the cow in the chute and milk that one down. Chances are you’ll find a thick, chunky, pus or blood filled quarter. Milk it all out completely. Tieing that leg will help her to not kick as much. Once you get about 5-6 squirts out it will feel good and she will stop kicking. Sq**rt a tube of mastitis treatment in the teat and hope you saved that quarter.

12/21/2025

Snowland Jenny enjoying the sun, growing her end of Jan calf ✨

12/19/2025

Sometimes those first time moms just need a little extra help, time, patience and management to get them to understand what being a new mom is. Tristin’s cow Lark is tame and easy going and allowed me to be present during the birth without being stressed but just after delivery she was a little confused as to what she should do with this little girl of hers. I had put her in the barn stall as I do all first time moms when the time came with some fresh water and hay under cameras so I could monitor her labor. When you’ve watched enough cow births you know when one is going to immediately be a good mom or when you’re going to have to help one be a good mom. Twenty min after she popped out Raven was up and ready to nurse but Lark wasn’t quite sure about that. This calf was lively and feisty and ready to get life started. Lark wasn’t being what I’d call mean to the calf but just wasn’t overly attentive. We got a tube of colostrum paste into the calf and got mom haltered and into the head chute so baby could latch and get a proper dose of colostrum. Lark was perfect in the chute and walked in, stood still and didn’t kick. Back into the stall and she would kick the calf again when it tried to nurse and just dance around in circles. I put some fer appease supplement on mom for calming and applied some calf claim powder all over the calf. It worked. Lark was more relaxed and immediately started to lick her calf. Every four hours we got mom up and into the chute to let baby nurse. Then back into the stall they went to bond. I really feel in this situation it helped to have them in a calm separate space to bond. Lark is used to the barn stall because she’s a fatty girl who loves food so she’s always trying to sneak in to get grain. I understand not everyone’s cows are calm being in the barn however. We worked with Lark in the barn brushing her and letting the calf nurse. It worked a little bit but not to where I felt comfortable with the amount of milk the calf was getting. So in and out of the chute multiple times to get the calf off to a good start and to encourage bonding. We rotated shifts between Tristin, my husband and I. This morning it was Tristin’s turn and she reported back that she saw Raven nurse while Lark stood still for 40 minutes on both sides and all four quarters. Hallelujah! I won’t say I wasn’t stressed, ask my family. I definitely was. It’s probably why I have a massive migraine today but we weren’t giving up, we weren’t going to have a bottle baby and we weren’t going to have Larks mothering abilities tainted. Perseverance, patience and determination!! This post isn’t a bash mom post, whenever we post something that we’ve overcame I always hope that someone new to the breed will take something off of it and learn from it. One of the best things about being in a breed association is having friends and mentors that you can bounce ideas with and off of to help in a situation where you just need another opinion. I’m not too good to reach out to breeder friends, in which I did in this case to ask the question of is there anything else I can do and am I doing this right? So happy to report that Lark loves Raven and is being a really great mom.

12/18/2025

🤠 We are excited to announce the arrival of the first calf sired by TC Murdach to hit the ground. Full of vigor from the time it hit the ground and eager to get nursing within twenty minutes!

A perfect 51.2 pound heifer ….. TC Raven

Lark at Willow Glen X TC Murdach

High concentration Conventional and Sexed Semen available.

12/18/2025

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Fluffy cows. Spring blooms. The sweetest photos. 🐮✨
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12/14/2025

Spent a few hours this morning at the farm. It was to cold to be outside but that’s when they need checked the most. Bundled up, ended up getting hot a few times working. Piddling my husband calls it. He says I don’t do much of anything but all the little things add up when you talk about management of a cow herd. I guess most people with big herds just feed in bunks and whoever gets it gets it, survival of the fittest. I thoroughly enjoy taking care of mine so a lot of times I hand pick certain ones to give a little extra to. There’s those ones that are too big for the creep feeder but not dominate enough to eat with the main herd. There’s the few older ones who just won’t fight for their food and I don’t think they should have to. I bring them in when I get the chance, not every time but when the opportunity comes up to. Then there’s the favs who look at you like they’re starving, some of them get brought in the barn for a little grain or a warm bowl of molasses water. Molasses provides a quick energy boost and feeds the rumen microbes. I’ve got a few first time heifers due in the next few weeks, checked to see how they were bagging up.

12/14/2025

Morning snacks