Hemlock Hills Elk Ranch, LLC

08/24/2024

Saturday hang out! This will be the last for some who will be leaving the farm in a week!

08/23/2024

*** NEW PRODUCT ALERT***
Just picked up our newest addition to our processed elk meat product line - Elk Summer Sausage with Jalapeño and Pepper Jack!! We will be debuting this product tomorrow 8/24/24 at the Farmers Market of the Ozarks in Springfield MO. We’ll have free samples. Also back in stock is our best selling Original flavor elk snack sticks. Both products are shelf stable so we can ship anywhere!

08/13/2024

Music to our ears at 6am! We will hear this for the next 4 months😏!!

08/07/2024

First post for the 12 acre pasture expansion is in the ground! Only 100+ to go?! 😳😩

08/07/2024

Morning shower time. Who took the soap???

08/07/2024

First peeler of the year and it's a young one.

07/24/2024

It's not all fun and games. One of my big breeder bulls busted the tip off his main beam a few days ago. I've been keeping a close eye looking for signs of potential infection. Well today I saw lots of flies on the dangling piece so decided to not risk his health and clean it up. Everything went well and looks good. 10 minutes after reversing him he was in grazing with his buddies.

07/22/2024

Moved some of the big boys into fresh pasture yesterday. One of our renovated pastures we burned down last fall and planted orchard grass and then put Sunn-hemp in earlier this summer. They’re fat and happy! Best of all no fescue!

07/03/2024

These two decided to have a boxing match! It lasted for awhile with Yeti coming out the winner!!🥊🥊

06/10/2024

Nothing but bulls and calves this time of year!

05/25/2024

HHT Myles is not gonna disappoint again this year. We built this bull using one of our best cow lines from Clearstone genetics and Russell Gwozdz great bull Imperious. He is Gold NAEBA registered and coming 6. We’ve used him for our main and/or backup bull for 3 years so thinking it might be time to find him new pastures to roam.
* 2nd place typical 4 yr old at 2023 antler competition- 100% typical.
* unofficial 5yr score 462” mostly typical; to be entered in 2024 competition.
* His 4ths at 4yr (26 3/8; 26 2/8) and 5yr (30 1/8; 26 1/8) are longer than ANY bull in the competition going back several years.
* His beams at 5yr (54; 53 5/8) are longer than ANY bull in the competition going back several years.
* This bull has great demeanor; he protects his girls but never a jerk even during the rut.
* Phenomenal breeder. He breed’s everything; I think he can breed cows two pens over just by looking at them.
* AND, if all that is not enough, he is LM Codon 132!!
Hemlock Hills Elk Ranch, LLC is TB, Brucellosis, and CWD certified. Farm CWD radius is 20.38 miles.

05/15/2024

Mother's Day brought us our 2nd & 3rd Elk calves. These moms did their job with one girl & boy. They are also trying to lose their winter sweaters😉!!

05/09/2024

April showers bring May Elk calves 😋. Sugar had "her" while we were under a tornado watch! When it's time its time!! This is the 1st of 30 to come.

05/03/2024

The bulls are changing every day. Fun to watch. A couple of the little guys and a couple of the big boys.

04/19/2024

NEW PRODUCT DEBUT! Tomorrow 4/20/24 at the Farmers Market of the Ozarks in Springfield MO we will be introducing our new dietary supplement for pets - powdered elk antler. This is 100% elk antler from our farm. Loaded with healthy vitamins and minerals for your pet. Over the years we’ve had customers unwilling to risk whole antler for their pets that had dental issues. Now everyone’s furry friends can benefit from the nutritional properties of antler. Also great to stimulate eating in those finicky pets that never seem interested in their kibble. Just shake some over their food and your pet will be grateful! Supplies are limited but we still have our whole and split antlers if you prefer.

04/09/2024

I got the heifers vaccinated and moved in to their calving pasture. This pasture is one we renovated last fall to eliminate the fescue. 2 more groups of cows and last years calves to do yet.

04/06/2024

Bulls are growing fast. Only about 4 weeks until calving starts. Fun time of year!

04/05/2024

We will be at the Farmers Market of the Ozarks in Springfield MO tomorrow Saturday 4/6/24. We have a full selection back in stock so hope to see you there! Pics of just a few of our delicious fresh frozen cuts.

12/30/2023

It's preg checking time. A snowy day in Missouri but still ran 35 exposed cows thru today with no major problems. We draw blood and send it out to Herd Health Diagnostics in Washington state. We'll know next week how many moms we'll have this spring.

12/09/2023

12/09/2023

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our farm to you! Wishing all our friends, family, customers, and followers God's blessings this holiday season.

The only thing harder than getting your kids to cooperate for Christmas photos is your dog and elk! 🤣

We will be at Farmers Market of the Ozarks in Springfield MO Saturday 12/9 and 12/23. We still have lots of products for gifts. Shipping is available if you're not in the Missouri area. As we normally do, we will take off from market in Jan. and Feb. However, this year we plan to take orders for delivery to Springfield on select days this winter. If you are interested in being on our contact list please send us a PM and we'll be in touch with our winter delivery schedule.

Thanks again to everyone for all your support,
Rick and Kathy Ewert, Gunnar, and our 80 elk!

11/25/2023

It's shop small Saturday at the Farmers Market of the Ozarks in Springfield MO. We have some great gift ideas including a bunch of shelf stable elk products that don't need refrigerating. And don't forget your puppy on Christmas. They love the antler dog chews.

11/19/2023

Nothing goes to waste on the farm. Brought all our leftover pumpkins down to the elk today. They're loving the treat! Did you know pumpkins are a natural dewormer?

10/25/2023

The last 3 breeder bulls got "haircuts". It just amazes me how they carry them around. We weighed The big boy "Myles" antlers that I scored just over 450". Each side was around 19lbs!

09/05/2023

DAY 6: We are done! Got the last 2 groups of cows dewormed and the last 6 calves weened. All the cows are in their breeding pens and all 18 calves are in the calf pen. Lots of noise on the farm now. Things will be a little less chaotic for a couple months until we pull the breeder bulls out. Hope all our friends and followers enjoy this little glimpse into elk farming over the past week.

09/01/2023

DAY 5: we finished cutting a few of the bigger 3's and a 4yr breeder we won't be using this year. The 3yr scored 404" and the 4yr 447". All the cutting is done for now. Thanks to good friends and neighbors Brad and Vicki Waterworth for helping. It went very smooth this year; no casualties (bulls or people). We kept the antlers on the 3 breeders we are using this year. Normally we wouldn't do that but we have a large tour group coming thru in October so felt it would be more interesting to see. Hopefully we won't regret that decision. I darted and scored the breeder bulls. The big boy Myles scored 450"! This year he has a little bit of nontypical going on so we'll have to put him in the nontypical class in next years NAEBA International antler competition. One more day and "hell week" should be in the books!

08/31/2023

DAY 4: The day we wait all year for. Shipping trophy bulls. It's a very nerve-wracking process that is very dangerous to us and the animals. Thanks to Adam Griffin for the help. We got all 7 bulls on 2 trailer loads with no one getting injured or killed; including the bulls. They're off to their new home in Oklahoma. Also got a few more cows treated and in their breeding pens. Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

08/30/2023

DAY 3: Got the pen of white cows treated and calves weened off and to the calf pasture. Also managed to cut a few more 3yr olds. One tried to kill me. Then we got one of the breeder bulls in with a group of the ladies. He instantly went in to rutting mode. I'll post a few interesting videos in the comments; FB won't seem to let me put pics and videos together. Stay tuned!!

08/29/2023

DAY 2: got our bottle babies Rush and Andre walked down to the calf pasture. Cut antlers off the 2yr old bulls and a few of the 3's. It was a bit of a cluster because they were going back into some different pens. Put a 2yr old bull with awesome genetics in with our heifers. Then got one of the cow pens ran through and got their calves weened off and in to the calf pasture. ...more to come.

08/27/2023

It's that crazy time of year. This week we will be deworming the entire herd, shipping out the trophy bulls, cutting antlers on all the remaining bulls, weening calves, and sorting cows and the breeder bulls in to their breeding pens. If we survive things will get a bit easier going in to fall.

DAY 1: we got the yearling heifers dewormed and moved in to their breeding pen. Spikers got dewormed too and all cut off.