Huntsville, Texas · Est. 2011
Stanley Farm and Ranch
Thirty acres of pine woods in Huntsville, Texas, since 2011. Donkeys, chickens, cattle, a greenhouse, and cameras watching the whole circus. A family homestead — not a brochure.
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Watch the ranch
Family videos from the place — chores, livestock, and whatever went sideways this week. Subscribe on YouTube @RedneckRanchers.
Shorts
Free tools
Farm and ranch calculators
Hay, stocking rate, freezer beef, TDN — punch the numbers on your phone. Nothing is stored. Words live in the ranch glossary.
Feed
Cattle hay calculator
How much hay the cow herd needs this winter.
Grazing
Stocking rate calculator
Acres, forage, and how many cows the grass holds.
Beef
Hanging weight calculator
Live to carcass to take-home freezer beef.
Feed
TDN cost calculator
Compare hay and cubes on energy, not the bag price.
Repro
Calving date calculator
283-day beef gestation, AI date to due date.
Words
Ranch glossary
TDN, hanging weight, animal unit, Doyle, calf crop.
Fence cost calculator Cattle gestation & calving date Heart girth weight tape Round bale weight
From the cameras
Latest from the journal
The ranch cameras get boiled down into a daily log most afternoons. Latest entries below, with a Ranch Week wrap when that page is up. The full pile is in the journal.
2026-10-23
Cows grazing among the pine trees
Earlier Morning found a bunch of chickens already busy inside, blacks and whites and one that looked gray. A few had hopped up on the roost while the others stayed on the…
2026-10-22
Chickens roosting in the coop
Noticed the chickens both inside the coop and out in the run. Spotlight A white chicken perched on the roost inside the coop. Several dark ones and some small gray birds were on…
2026-10-21
Brown cow under barn lamp
Did the turkey keep to Pasture 2b toward evening? Pasture 2b camera at 5:17 PM shows one turkey standing on the pine-needle ground inside the wire, facing right, brown feathers…