Cammack Cattle Co.

Cammack Cattle Co. Texas breeder of registered and commercial Brahman, Sardo Negro, Indu, Gyr, Beefmaster, and Brangus.

Sweet Anna has found her a little girl of her very own. She will be joining her new owners show string after she’s weane...
01/27/2025

Sweet Anna has found her a little girl of her very own. She will be joining her new owners show string after she’s weaned in April. We are super excited to watch her progress!

Little Elsa staying warm in the hay. We had several questions about why we handled her situation how we did so I’d like ...
01/25/2025

Little Elsa staying warm in the hay. We had several questions about why we handled her situation how we did so I’d like to address the most common ones (it’s gonna be a long one) 😊
To start with, we started in cattle with brangus. The kind you never had to bat an eye at nor worry about because we always knew they’d do their jobs perfectly and the calves would always do theirs. Transitioning to Brahman and especially exotics we quickly learned that wasn’t always the case. We’ve heavily culled over the last several years, selectively bred, and carefully picked what’s still left in our herd to boost and retain that brangus kind of vigor and maternal instincts. With the exception of 1 that we hoped would come around- which was this calf’s mother. It’s no secret, these exotics are EXPENSIVE to buy and expensive to own. Therefore functionality is something we refuse to ignore and make excuses for a lack thereof. One of those indicators or functionality is letting Mother Nature be Mother Nature after you know that calf has everything it needs to survive in all weather. So:
1. “You put her back outside when it was 20 degrees still the day she was born?” Yes. She was brought inside around 5:30am, fully warmed up and got a belly full of colostrum, our typical “jump start routine” and at 12:30pm put back with mom after we made sure she could walk up and nurse while her mom was in the chute, which she did perfectly. Past that, that is all a calf should need to survive even the coldest of cold days and nights. We did however keep her blanket on her for extra measure because yes they’re exotics and not all that adapted to this cold. She had shelter to block the wind, her mother, her blanket, a full belly before dark, and some shavings to bundle up into.
2. “You put her back with her mom?”: YES. Although her mom is set for the butcher due to her terrible demeanor and her barely present motherly instincts (past being dangerously aggressive over the calf) when it comes to newborns, she has 1 job and if she’s not going to do that 1 job there’s no sense in feeding her through the winter period. We knew she accepted the calf and after watching her calf milk her entirely down while she was confined in the chute that is all she should need to take it from there.

At the end of the day we’ve found what works for our operation and that’s just our own preference. There’s no real “better” way than another. Some people prefer to keep them from mom and keep them as a bottle calf, some don’t do anything at all and if the calf makes it then it makes it. Everyone has different thresholds for what they’re comfortable with when it comes to the cute little newborn calves. We have found for us that less has always ended up being more when it came to intervening and we’re just right in the middle of that spectrum. We lost several babies back starting out by taking them from a mom (always the first time heifers) that accepted them but maybe hadn’t figured out the rest, and trying this and that for days on end with bottles and tubing them over and over until we either ended up with a dead calf or a calf that no longer understood the cow is where they get milk not humans. Since we’ve shifted over to what you could say is the “tough but loving” approach where if we have to intervene at birth we will that 1 time in the first 5-6 hours of their life then after that they’re put back with mom and left alone. We praise god that since we have found our routine we’ve lost 0 calves and their moms get to be moms. So we keep our faith in god when trouble arises, we stick with our routine of the same stuff when we intervene, stick with the timeline and let nature be nature. Elsa is happy, spunky, nursing on her mom like a champ, and her mom’s still being her typical idiot self BUT raising her calf.

Trust me it’s always nerve wrecking even for us when we put any calf back out after assisting and having to wait especially that first night to see how things went. It’s always a sleepless night followed by a very early morning check up to see if the calf got with it. However when we stop to remind ourselves this is what so far has worked every time vs keeping the calf with us for days or permanently away from mom just to have them crash and many times die eventually. Do what works for your operation 🙂

Well we have finally landed on a name! We’ve decided to name her “Elsa”. Only fitting since she was born in the worst of...
01/24/2025

Well we have finally landed on a name! We’ve decided to name her “Elsa”. Only fitting since she was born in the worst of the winter storm and we already have an Olaf and Anna 😄 she’s still doing good and getting spunkier every day

And as fate had it, we had a heifer born about 4:30am in the worst of this cold. She’s trying to pull through but not ou...
01/21/2025

And as fate had it, we had a heifer born about 4:30am in the worst of this cold. She’s trying to pull through but not out of the woods yet

Double trouble getting ready for this cold 🥶 Olaf and Noel
01/19/2025

Double trouble getting ready for this cold 🥶 Olaf and Noel

01/18/2025

Oh Ditzy how you’ve sure matured over the past couple years. She’s expecting her first baby this year

01/16/2025

‼️Tomorrow is the last day for people to reply and let us know if they’ll be staying on the waitlist for this year. So far we will have approximately 6 spots opening up. If you know you were on the 2024 waitlist and did not receive a message about staying on for 2025 from Chase or Elyssa please reach out and let us know. ‼️ praying for a better heifer year this year 😅

Video of noel from yesterday because how can you not love this sweet beautiful girl 🥰 who will be available to those on the waitlist first 😌 then offered publicly if not claimed

I somehow forgot to post these of Noel from a few weeks ago🤪 she is just so dang cool! She will be available at weaning ...
01/06/2025

I somehow forgot to post these of Noel from a few weeks ago🤪 she is just so dang cool! She will be available at weaning (offered to our waitlist first)

Well these boys have both left and made it to their new homes! Alfie made his long cold trip to Missouri and Timber stay...
01/05/2025

Well these boys have both left and made it to their new homes! Alfie made his long cold trip to Missouri and Timber stayed right here in Texas 🖤 both are settling in and making new friends already

Aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnd it’s a bull 😆 1/2 Beefmaster 1/2 sardo
01/03/2025

Aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnd it’s a bull 😆 1/2 Beefmaster 1/2 sardo

We’re just obsessed with this sweet girls coloring 🤩 She’s bred to Troubadour for a calf later this year BRC PEANUT 641/...
01/03/2025

We’re just obsessed with this sweet girls coloring 🤩 She’s bred to Troubadour for a calf later this year
BRC PEANUT 641/8 x LADY L KIERA ROJO 428 ET

12/27/2024

How beautiful is Apollo 🤩 he’s already so confident and talk about some EARS. He will be registered at weaning. He’s 1/2 Indu Brasil 1/2 red brahman
For info on calves please visit our website or send us a DM
www.cammackcattleco.com

Some better pictures of little Noel. She will more than likely turn black by weaning but time will tell 😁Her momma is on...
12/26/2024

Some better pictures of little Noel. She will more than likely turn black by weaning but time will tell 😁Her momma is one of the best Gyr cows we have. She will be available at weaning. She will be offered to those on our waitlist first then offered publicly.
www.cammackcattleco.com

All we could want for Christmas, a beautiful new heifer 😍🩷 welcome to the world Noel!
12/25/2024

All we could want for Christmas, a beautiful new heifer 😍🩷 welcome to the world Noel!

12/22/2024

Sweet Apollo and his momma Brandy ❤️ more info can be found at cammackcattleco.com

12/20/2024

Sweet Lainey is already almost a month old! How time flies… she’s as sweet as she is pretty 😁

Babies, babies, and more babies. Got several more due to calve 😅 it’s goin to be a long winter! As of right now we have ...
12/19/2024

Babies, babies, and more babies. Got several more due to calve 😅 it’s goin to be a long winter! As of right now we have 1 full American brahman heifer (will be registered at weaning) 1 1/2 Indu Brasil 1/2 red Brahman bull (will be registered at weaning), and 1 3/4 Sardo Negro 1/4 Hereford Bull (Will at least be ABBA certified, possibly fully registered. Price will increase if full registry is granted and no deposit is received) available. Please visit our website, click the picture of the calf and it will tell you all the info 🙂 Apollo, the Indu bull calf, will be on there in a few more days.
www.cammackcattleco.com

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All the baby lovings from Elsa, Lainey, Apollo, and Anna. Rey’s should be joining us any week now

Olaf just gets prettier every week 😍 this boy is still up for grabs. You can find more info on him at www.cammackcattleco.com

Oh Ditzy how you’ve sure matured over the past couple years. She’s expecting her first baby this year

‼️Tomorrow is the last day for people to reply and let us know if they’ll be staying on the waitlist for this year. So far we will have approximately 6 spots opening up. If you know you were on the 2024 waitlist and did not receive a message about staying on for 2025 from Chase or Elyssa please reach out and let us know. ‼️ praying for a better heifer year this year 😅 Video of noel from yesterday because how can you not love this sweet beautiful girl 🥰 who will be available to those on the waitlist first 😌 then offered publicly if not claimed

You just do you peanut…..

Commercial 3ish year old bred gyr. She’s bred to our registered Indu Brasil or sardo negro bull. Videos and pics of the black and white calf was her 2024 heifer out of the sardo negro bull. We’re slowly going to all registered and mostly American mommas. She’s priced to move, I do not mind having the vet confirm pregnancy BUT she needs to be picked up either straight from the vet or that same day. I’m not going to stress her out keeping her pinned up waiting forever on someone to pickup. She easily goes into the working pens and has never gotten aggressive but is one who prefers to just stand back and be left alone. She was a wonderful first time mother and calved/raised her calf unassisted. please dm or visit www.cammackcattleco.com for more information.

Check out this u bar heifer 🤩 she’s a beef wagon to only be 7 months old

That show stance 📸 We’ve decided to keep Lainey back as a future momma. However, if you know Chase everything’s for sale “for the right price” but that’ll have to be a price he can’t say no to, as with all the cattle we own 😆 He’s just smitten with this little heifer and I guess it’s no irony since she’s out of the only heifer/cow that he’s really attached to and that’s his favorite out of the 32. Surprisingly, Lua (Lainey’s momma) is the only one in the herd who likes him more than me 🙄 praying 2025 will be our heifer year and we can get a heifer to everyone on our waitlist 🩷

Puppies aren’t the only thing she herds 🥴 Lainey those aren’t your friends…

This guy is going to be truly special 😍 just look at the length this dude has to him (pic at the very end). He’s sweet and curious, could also potentially be scurred (P/h) 🤩 we will test him at weaning if no one’s bought him yet🤞🏻we’re going to be talking with abba today about his papers so hopefully that’ll result in some added good news.

Oh Olaf 🤩

Miss Ditzy 🖤🩶🤍 she’s 3/4 sardo negro 1/4 Hereford. She’s due to have her baby early 2025

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