Hatchettsmith Livestock Transport LLC

04/11/2026

This morning our crew transported a pair of highlands for a client. Yes these coos were halter broke. Which made loading and unloading less stressful for the animals and our crew.

01/16/2026

A new tax assessment passed by the Connecticut General Assembly could increase farmland taxes by 2–4 times what farms paid just last year. For farms like March Farm, this kind of sudden increase creates real strain and puts long-standing family farms at risk.

Our farm—and so many others—exist because of community support. The land you walk, pick on, and gather around matters. Please stand with local farms and help protect Connecticut farmland by signing this petition.

👉 https://www.savectland.org

11/27/2025

Happy thanksgiving from all of us at Hatchettsmith Farm and Hatchettsmith Livestock Transport. 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

11/16/2025

Reminder for any of 4-h our clients or any 4-her that fallows us that may have purchased a calf from the 2025 sale.

LAST REMINDER!!

As the 2025 show season winds down please remind juniors who purchased a calf at the 2025 calf sale to start filling out the futurity forms. Great way to get back some of your purchasing cost.

Must be in hand here at Sale base by 11/30/25. Thanks for letting us give back to you!

To print for go to https://mablueribbonsale.com/calf-sale-futurity-form/
https://drive.google.com/.../1EAmP07lDLcCC6wHPDY56K9.../view

11/12/2025

Our transport crew had an eventful morning. On their way to pick up a steer at Barden farm they pulled up on a motor vehicle accident on RT 219 in New Hartford. Our owner Adam being a firefighter in town immediately positioned our truck and empty trailer to provide protection to the car still in the lane of travel until fire trucks from both south end fire and New Hartford fire arrived on scene.
When Adam finally got to Barden Farm for the transport the crew assisted the Barden’s with getting a cold calf into the barn where it was able to be warmed up. Finally the crew got the steer from the Bardens to were the transport destination was

Accident turned out ok and the calf is up and doing great. Just another day in the life of a first responder and farm.

11/06/2025

PSA! Remember folks when traveling next to a live stock trailer or behind one drive with caution. Just because you can’t see any animals on the trailer doesn’t mean it’s not loaded. These are live loads were hauling and we can not just slam on the breaks. Don’t tailgate us and fallow to close and don’t try passing when it’s not safe. Your impatient actions could potentially spook the animals cause them to move iradicly and potentially make us crash. You’re not only putting your life at risk by driving recklessly around us but the lives of the animals on our trailers and our lives.
So give us room and if you need to pass us wait until it’s a passing zone double lane and proceed with caution. Act like it’s your animals on that trailer.

11/06/2025

Yesterday one of our crews transported these 10 pigs for Gresczyk farm in our hometown. This is what local agriculture businesses in the same town looks like working together. We have also transported for Barden farm in our town along with buying ice cream, just going to visit or going to get a few grocery items. They support us and we support them.

Buy local farm local support your local agricultural businesses!

10/31/2025

It’s a quiet rainy night here inthe HSLST office and these two are fast asleep while I get some office work done.

10/28/2025

Not our trailer sharing for the Middlesex Livestock Auction

STOLEN!!

PLEASE SHARE

On Friday Oct 24 2025 @ precisely 6:32 AM Middlesex Livestock Auction’s 2015 Sure- Trac hydraulic dump trailer was removed illegally off our premises at 488 cherry hill rd Middlefield ct caught on video surveillance

This trailer model was st8212dd-b120
Trailer has wood side boards on it!
Please contact me for any additional information
8608835828 lisa

This trailer is used to clean sale barn !!!

10/25/2025

A little history on HSLST…. Ever wonder why our crew isn’t afraid of getting hurt or can handle the more aggressive livestock? That’s because well before Hatchettsmith Livestock was even a thought our owner and a helper use to ride rough stock. While our lead driver worked the back pens. Also our fair coordinator was learning at a young age about bucking bulls how to handle them. We didn’t just ride or run them through the chutes we also helped take care of the bulls back at the farm where they were kept and where the practice pen was.

So if you have more stubborn cattle that needs hauling or even some rough stock the Hatchettsmith Livestock crew definitely has you covered. Our well experienced and well rounded team can handle pretty much any situation and adapt to it.

10/20/2025

It’s been a busy few weeks for our transport teams. From having a crew at the Middlesex feeder sale to the horse sale at crowleys sale barn. And in between that hauling beefers and pigs to processing for one of our clients. Here’s some photos from our recent transports.

Remember whether you’re heading to the action and need a ride for your animals or you have scheduled processing dates for your livestock we got you covered.

Depending on distance some mileage rates may apply.