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

Custom Livestock Solutions has long been known for its reproductive services on the cattle side, but as the practice and its clientele grows, so does CLS vets’ commitment to providing breeding and gestational care for other species. In 2025, the team began offering vasectomies for sheep and goats, a procedure that aims to help commercial small ruminant farms establish breeding programs to fill end-consumer demand for meat, fiber, milk, and even beauty products.

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.

Rarely a week goes by that the Custom Livestock Solutions phone isn’t ringing with calls for a vet to please come out and see downed cows, bulls, or calves. Because bovines can go down for a number of reasons, and the longer cattle are down, the more detrimental a case can become, the CLS team considers these emergency cases.