Many of Georgia’s beef cattle producers calve seasonally, with babies born at the start of the year or toward the end of it. Dairy farmers calve year-round, and a growing number of year-round beef producers are considering a transition to seasonal calving. No matter when your calves hit the ground, the Custom Livestock Solutions large animal veterinary team wants you to be both prepared and successful — and reduce the risk of emergencies.

Before Custom Livestock Solutions, there was Saddle Creek Farm: a swath of land in Perry, Georgia, characterized by five generations of agriculture, a place where grandchildren are gifted cows for their second birthdays. It was a tradition Jody Strickland, mother of CLS founder Dr. Tyson Strickland, DVM, underwent as a child, and it’s a custom she’s kept going strong.

Ten years ago this month, Tyson and Anna Strickland walked down the aisle. A week later, he walked across the stage to accept his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. By the time May 2016 ended, he was a husband, a veterinarian and a business owner, plowing ahead on not much more than ambition and prayer. Starting a large animal-only vet clinic, fresh out of school? People told him he was crazy. But a decade later, Dr. Tyson Strickland, DVM, is a husband, father, veterinaria

Both Iron Pin Ranch and CLS turn 10 this year, and both the Harvins and Strickland say they’ve learned a lot from one another in this first decade together.