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"How or Why did you start a mini cattle business?" 

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It all started January 16, 2021 with a kiss—a simple slobbery kiss.  Love at fist sight and a kiss…………………..

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OK—let me back up a bit………………..Laura and I had been talking for quite a while over Face Book about a little longhorn bull, Max, from her registered longhorn herd, that she had posted for sale. A mutual friend tagged me in the post. The post went viral and before I could even respond, Laura had 10,000 hits, dang near crashed her internet, AND a sweet home for the little guy—but she promised to call me when she got another one.  And true to her word, she did. Ruby, a bottle baby long horn, who was rejected by her mom, hand raised in Laura’s back yard, and then failed to launch with the herd when put back out to pasture was available. I promised to stop by to meet Laura and Ruby the first time I was that direction.  January 16th, Randy and I were coming home from Lubbock, going right by Laura’s place so we arranged to stop by.  Laura and I had an instant organic connection, as if we had always known each other. We all hopped in the ATV to go search for Ruby. We found her with very little effort, isolated from the herd.  I called her name, she walked right up to me and without hesitation gave me a big slobbery kiss! I knew in that moment that I had to have her. We sealed the deal that day, and within the week she was in our pasture.

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Laura and I continued to talk often.

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Shortly after getting Ruby, I stumbled on an opportunity to get a full blood little black angus baby that was fighting for her life. Her mother had mastitis and could not sustain her. I bought her for next to nothing, but was in over my head as to how to give her the best chance at survival.  Laura to the rescue--- she showed up. She came with antibiotics, syringes, electrolytes, (oh that electrolyte story is a whole other story in itself that I will blog at some point for a HUGE laugh) milk replacer, medicated milk replacer, milk substitute recipes, different bottle nipples and on and on.  But most of all she showed up-- without hesitation--late evenings, nights, short notice just to help me give this precious baby a chance to live. We spent countless hours with “Harper” and more or less, WILLED that baby to live. We moved the baby from the cow shed to my back yard, and my husband pulled his enclosed trailer in for a warm home for Harper. Harper and I spent night after night in that trailer, often wondering if she would see the morning light. She is almost four years old now and thriving.

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So how did we get from a longhorn and a black angus to Cupcake Cattle Company, with highlands, highparks and belted galloways? Good question. As I mentioned Laura and I just immediately became quick friends with so many of the same interests and an odd, unconventional trust between each other, that historically just does NOT come natural for either of us. We are both fiercely independent, bossy, FFA (full force arrival) individuals—and typically two of that kind in a group is too many, but it worked for us. 

As we talked cattle, we learned that she loved the highlands, I loved the highparks and we both loved the belties. She knows the cattle business, has her longhorn herd, a commercial herd and has raised show calves for years. While I did not know the cattle business as she did, I did have the health knowledge to get us through crisis' and I am a country girl through and through with a lifelong dream is to get back to a farm and ranch life.   

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We began to jokingly talk about starting a mini cattle business together, started exchanging pictures of the cutest little mini-cow babies, and started making contacts with the “GREATS” in the mini cattle business. We bought one, then two, then three, then ten, and more, and more. We met with Laura’s tax accountant to set up the business. We opened a joint business account; we developed our logo, and just like that we were in the mini cattle business.

Meet Ruby! She's every bit of 1800 pounds now. She is as sweet as ever, and whenever I step out to the pasture, she still greets me with a big, wet kiss right my face! I adore her.

"How did you get the name "Cupcake Cattle Company?"

When we first started talking about buying highlands and going into business, we started trying to think of a name that was fun and that fit us. Laura has a marketing background and said that it had to be something catchy and something that we could build a memorable logo around. She loves alliterations--- so we started with "cattle company" and started writing down every other word we could think of that started with a "C." We had so many words that we ran out of paper, but the one that stuck was CUPCAKE--because I also bake and make really fun cupcakes. Not that we mix cattle and cupcakes--well in some ways we do-- in the name AND we do take our vet team at the 6666 Cupcakes on occasion. They love that.  

Cupcake Cattle Company

Laura Bratton
bratton101@aol.com
806.239.8244

Dr. SuLynn Mester

sulynn.mester@uta.edu

940.585.8395

We are located at the base of the Texas panhandle.

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