About Redbird Ranch
Owned & Operated by Jared & Rachel Heid
Welcome to Redbird Ranch! We’re Jared & Rachel Heid and this is our newly relocated family farm (previously called New Beginnings Farm).
For over 15 years, we have been farming in Cass County, Missouri. We started out working for a local, family owned pig farm, training horses and just raising a few other small animals for ourselves. Eventually we built up a herd of beef cows and a few jersey milk cows. We started keeping bees, raising heeler puppies, rabbits and various kinds of poultry.
Over the years, we also welcomed our four daughters. Our passions and interests became a small farm business: New Beginnings Farm. We all work together as a family and enjoyed meeting and interacting with people from near and far while selling milk, beef, poultry and baby rabbits.
This year we decided that New Beginnings really did need a new beginning. We decided to down size our beef cow herd to focus on other areas and just really felt that the Lord wanted us somewhere else. We began exploring options and almost immediately found something we were interested in not far from Warsaw, Mo. We went and looked at the place. When we got home we looked on Google Maps and found that the area was known as Butter Hollow. How fitting!
Over the next couple months, we made the transition and now we are settled in Butter Hollow - a New Beginning on Redbird Ranch.
Now we specialize in breeding German Shepherds and Heelers, with puppy litters available several times a year. We also enjoy developing family milk cows and teaching families how to milk and care for their cow.
Every morning starts with “Chore-time”. It is everyone’s favorite time of the day.
First comes loving on and praising the guard dogs who protected the small animals and feed from the “night riff-raff” and who are always the first to welcome us. Close behind the dogs come the barn cats, followed by bawling from the calves in the pen and our milk cows (who seem to somehow always know the time). Turkey and chickens are last but not least.
Milking time is what all the animals are REALLY waiting for… though we would all rather think that we are so loved.
Everything gets some fresh milk! All the “animal friends” know it and make the milking area a busy place. Cats, dogs and poultry wait by their bowls and the calves from the pen get antsy when they know you are almost done milking and they will soon get their share. It is a wonderful time! We also save plenty of milk for our own family and some to sell privately.
Mornings on the Farm
About The Name
Redbirds symbolize strength, courage and loyalty towards one’s land.
Redbird Ranch is the name of our new farm. We discovered this by meeting local people and giving verbal directions to our new farm. After doing so, they would say “Oh! The Redird Ranch. You live at the Redbird Ranch. I know exactly where that is.” They would then proceed to tell us more about the area, and indeed, our farm is called the Redbird Ranch by most of the locals, though the sign has been gone many years.
We have asked several people about how the Redbird Ranch got its name - and nobody knows. There was only an old sign that had the name and had been there 70+ years, according to an old-timer in the area. After a quick Google search and learning with the redbird symbolizes, we thought it only proper to continue on as the Redbird Ranch.