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08/10/2024

I’m here!! So are 15 other vendors!!!

Richland County Farmers Market is in the Courthouse Parking lot in Sidney, across from IGA from 7:30 am - noon

08/10/2024

Everything at Crooked Creek Farms has a purpose; from the milk cows providing us with milk and calves to sell down to the barn cats for pest control, even our dogs provide protection to the other livestock and our border collie helping with “herd relocation”.

Today I have a remind myself of that as I take the 4H market wether, Leo to the processor. My niece sold him at the fair, but the buyer gave him back; so he will be filling our freezer with “home-raised” chevon (goat meat).

I try my hardest not to get too attached to the livestock, the milk cows are an exception. But the animals make it really hard when they are as sweet as this goat was. Thank you Leo for providing meat for our family.

08/09/2024

A great image of what “cream-topped” raw milk looks like 😍

For every 1/2 gallon of milk there is approximately a pint of cream! Dolly has been cranking out the delicious full-fat milk this summer 😋

08/08/2024

Count down for Ginny 🥳

She could calve anytime after August 15th. She spent last week at the Richland County Fair and is now home enjoying the last couple weeks before she is back on the milk line.

Standing next to her is Gale, her heifer calf from last year 😍

08/04/2024

I have several beautiful Silver Laced Wyandotte roosters ready to go! $5 each

Need them out of my other chicken tractor to make room for growing quail.
Sidney MT

08/02/2024

Crooked Creek Farms was proud to sponsor the 2024 Grand Champion novice Dairy Showman buckle at the Richland County Fair & Rodeo — but also to give it to my niece!!!!

07/27/2024

Hazel found a new home! Catch her at the 2025 Williams Co. Fair! 💚🤍🍀

07/26/2024

Hazel is PENDING

Offering a discount if sold within the next 24 hours!!! There is a fancy registered cow for sale at the NDSF that I really want to buy but I need to sell 2 of these heifers to be able to afford her. $200 off for the next 24 hours. Info on pictures.

Please pm me for more info!!!
$1500 each for Marlee or Missy - weaning next week
$2400 for Hazel - exposed

07/17/2024

Chicks for sale! 🐣

Currently hatching
Colored egg layers - Easter Egger, Olive Egger, Black Copper Maran and American Bresse hens crossed with American Bresse rooster
$3.00 each
Straight Run
Sidney MT

07/15/2024

I have fertilized Cutornix quail eggs if anyone is wanting to hatch their own 😍

They’re super fun to watch, grow very quickly and start laying by 8 weeks old!
$12/dozen

07/09/2024

NATIONAL COW APPRECIATION DAY!! 🥳🩷🐮

Our girls are top notch, cream of the crop and we couldn’t do what we do without them.

Jolene - 6 year old Milking Shorthorn
Dolly - 5 year old Jersey
Hope - 4 year old Jersey
Ginny - 4 year old Jersey
Bri - 2 year old Milking Shorthorn X Angus
Betty - 1 year old Milking Shorthorn X Angus Hazel - 1 year old Jersey X Shorthorn
Gale - 10 month old Jersey
Sunny - 1 year old Jersey X Milking Shorthorn bull

07/03/2024

See you there!!!!

But not the first market as I’ll be on vacation, on a mountain 🏔️

We have some exciting news to share. There will also be a market on Thursday evenings this summer! The market will be held at the Reynold's Parking Lot from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Stop by on your way home from work and check out what the vendors have to offer! Beginning Thursday, July 11th.

06/30/2024

Possibly considering sending Hazel off to a new family

She is a 2023 Jersey X Shorthorn heifer
Completely halter broke, easy to handle but also follows a buck of grain like a champ.
She is going to make someone a really nice milk cow next year.
She has does good in electric fence pastures

She was turned in with Sunny, our Jersey X Milking Shorthorn bull on the 27th and I’ve seen her cycling twice the past 2 months so she should catch on this next heat cycle.

Reason for selling is I have 3 yearling heifers this year and I’d like to purchase 1-2 mature Milking Shorthorn cows.
Asking $2600

I have 2 heifers available from March 2024 that I could a pair for a discounted $$ so she’d have a buddy.

06/28/2024

Thankful to live where it’s legal ❤️

06/24/2024

Would you be more apt to buy a dairy heifer who is bred for March, April or May?

06/19/2024

I really love talking to other “homesteads gone small business” especially ones who sell raw milk!!

06/11/2024

I am so absolutely excited to get this bad boy home!!! Here’s to my very own milking barn 😍😍😍😍

06/06/2024

Will be headed to Bowman sale on the 8th if not sold before

“Bill” is looking for a new home
He is a 2 year old Nubian buck
Out of registered stock, but is not registered. I raised him, sold him and then bought him back last year to breed my does.
He is friendly and easy to handle
Bill was born January 2022
Recently wormed and vaccinated
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Located outside Sidney MT

06/05/2024

June is National Dairy Month! National Milk Month started in 1937 as a way to distribute extra milk in the course of the warm months of summer. By 1939, June became the official dairy month.

Read about raw milk on my website!

https://www.crookedcreekfarmsmt.com/about-3

05/22/2024

Not too shabby for a cow calf sharing for 12 hours of the day, plus the calf is already weighing over 300 lbs. Go Dolly!!

She also allows the other calves to nurse off of her during the day… she’s a rock star really 🤷🏻‍♀️

05/17/2024

One of our yearling heifers, Betty; is in heat (again) and will not shut up! 😂

05/16/2024

Marlee will be weaned next month and at that point is ready to go anytime!
She was born March 20th
1/2 Milking Shorthorn 1/2 Red Angus

I own Marlee’s mom (Jolene) along with 2 of her full sisters from the past two years (Bri & Betty).
Bri is a first calf heifer this year and has turned into an exceptional nurse cow and will allow any calf to nurse. She is feeding 2 calves full time now; I could possibly add a 3rd if I grained her (she’s currently feeding 2 on just grass).

The nice thing with this cross is she does not look dairy and bred to a beef bull, her calves will slip right in with the rest of a ranchers load of calves.
Marlee will be ready to breed next spring/summer and will have her first calf in 2026.
Pm me for more questions!
Located outside of Sidney.

She is unbranded and unvaccinated at this point but will be wormed and vaccinated when we brand the rest of our herd end of the Month.

04/30/2024

I’d be all over this nurse cow if I could afford it!!!

Selling Wednesday at Sidney Livestock Market Center

Selling Wednesday May 1st.

Patches. 5 year old Shorthorn nurse cow with calf on her side.
Patches was used as a nurse cow recently and does an excellent job.

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Hazel found a new home! Catch her at the 2025 Williams Co. Fair! 💚🤍🍀

Milk cows vs. nurse cows 🩷

I made the decision this spring to raise calves on the majority of my cows instead of milking them. With the calf market the way it is; we can use the extra calf income. I’m milking Dolly once a day and getting approximately 4 gallons in the morning to sell while she still raises her calf. Ginny is due to calve in August, so she will get dried off towards the end of June to give her a little rest. Bri is a first calf heifer and is doing excellent raising her calf along with a second. Jolene is past her prime and while she used to easily be able to raise 3 calves plus be milked once a day; she now can only comfortably raise her own calf plus an extra. Hope is helping a neighbor with his extra calves in exchange for getting her bred and good feedlot feed. I’m lucky to have such a nice strong of cows who are versatile to do either job!!

Was a busy afternoon for Crooked Creek! Jolene, Dolly, Hope & Ginny got their required yearly brucellosis testing done, Ginny, Hope and Pippa got pregnancy tested; Ginny & Pippa are due in August and Hope is still open, not a huge deal; we will keep trying. Sunny got fertility tested and tested great! He also got vaccinated and had some disease testing done. Lastly, Gale got bangs vaccinated! I am one exhausted and sore pregnant lady 🤰🏻 🥱

SOLD!!! “Faith” was born May 2023. She is 1/2 jersey, 1/2 angus and should make an excellent family milk cow or nurse cow, should be able to raise 2 calves easily or her own, plus OAD milking. Faith’s dam is my best nurse cow and would let a piglet nurse if it tried. She is also a super gentle machine or hand milking cow. So I have no doubts that Faith should follow in those foot steps. Faith is currently still on the cow but is also eating grain & alfalfa. We are working on halter breaking; she stands gentle tied. She was vaccinated and poured in May and is due for fall shots soon. She has not yet been bangs vaccinated. She is also NOT branded. 💲1️⃣1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ For any questions or if interested, please pm me here or my personal page Hayley Darnielle

I am terrible about taking pictures and videos while I’m at my vet apts but today Jolene, Dolly, Hope and Bri all got pregnancy tested! Jolene and Dolly are both bred to calve the beginning of March to our red angus bull, Todd. This will likely be the last breeding my milk cows will have with Todd since next summer, Sunny will hopefully be big enough to get the job done. Bri is also bred and should calve around April 10th and was bred to a Hereford bull (this calf hopefully will have some flashy white markings, also hopefully a heifer haha) Hope was open, but I am glad she is. She’s quite thin and we ran a bunch of blood and fecal tests on her to see if we can figure out what’s going on. If we can get her weight back up, I may breed her alongside Ginny for a August 2024 calf. Betty & Hazel also went along and got bangs vaccinated, which means they are now protected from brucellosis. Ginny stayed home and is expected to calve in the next 20 days!

These Cornish X chickens aren’t dumb, they know when it’s milking time. Very little feed goes to waste around here 😂 These guys are 7 weeks and will have to hold on until 9 weeks to process as we have our county fair next week!!

The newest surprise! ✨ Greta ✨ is a 2 year old Guernsey first calf heifer that we picked up from my best friend last week. We had a rough start and weren’t sure it was going to work out but once she decided the grain I have here is a lot better than being a jerk, she settled down nicely. She’s even adopted 2 calves and is loving new life at Crooked Creek Farms 😍 More pictures to come 😉

Dolly enjoys her head scratches 💜

Such a variety going on right now in the coop! Several varieties of batams, including featherfoots, silkies, frizzles and old English, New Hampshire pullets, Barred Rock pullets Blue Olive Eggers and some ducklings!