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Nice discussion on Texas Longhorns! Pros and cons always welcome. We have over 100 registered and eligible to register. Running 3 high end bulls. Have about 50-60 breeding cows. Rest are calves and near yearlings. Our cows range from about 950 to 1050 lbs. Bulls in the 1400 range. All...

No experience with LH Crosses. However, we've sold several LH Yearling Bulls to area commercial breed ranchers for their crosses. Also sold one Homozygous black bull to an Angus breeder several years ago. Our LH Cows are all good milkers and good BCS's. Eat less, eat almost anything that...

Thanks! We don't use a head gate. We use a set-up called a "Medina Hinge" which is basically two 10' gates hinged about 12" apart. I think we have a photo of the set-up somewhere on or website. You'd be surprised at how carefully and intelligently Longhorn cattle manage to thread their way...

Yes. That's Him! Click on photo or go to Arrowhead Cattle Company that is showing info on our bull. Can also (obviously) go to our own website, runningarrowlonghorns. Thanks! Bill

Our #1 senior bull, TOTEM POLE, won another Bronze Trophy (his 11th one to date) for total horn length at the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association show in Ft Worth this week. His official measurement was 102 & 7/8". At this show, a Bronze Trophy is awarded to First Place winners in the class...

I don't care what breed a cow or bull is. Spending that much money for an animal is just insane and crazy. Obviously a tax write-off...lol. Have to sell hundreds of offspring for big bucks and/or thousands of straws of semen for big bucks. And, I thought Longhorn brokers were idiots for...

Yes, some things are changing in the cattle industry... We recently sold a "small herd" of cows and one of our better junior bulls to a major ANGUS rancher that was tired of the expense of maintaining commercial cattle due to the feed & economy issues. He said the LH's were more efficient and...

Thanks so much, Greybeard for "finding" and posting the photo of our new bull, Totem Pole! Guess I'm too cyber-challenged to post any photos easily...lol. Yes, haven't measured his height yet, but "think" it is around 55" and until we can weigh him, I "think" he weighs around 1350 lbs. Just a...

Hey everyone! Haven't posted in long time, but have been reading other's posts. Yesterday we bought a new 5 yo Longhorn Bull, TOTEM POLE, (Hunt's Command Respect X Hay Hook". He is A.I. Certified and is a 7/8 brother to "Top Caliber" (one of the few top bulls in the industry. Totem Pole has...

Only if you breed for "beef" and not for total package. Our Longhorns usually have 30" at 12 to 18 months old. Our bulls have horns ranging between 75 and 96" as 5 to 8 year olds. One of our 20 month old heifers had 53" total horns at the TLBAA Horn Showcase this month. If one of our animals...

We've been to a "few" shows in the past...never again... IMO, the shows are mainly for the benefit of the "showers" who are there to socialize, network, and gloat. Of course, the 4-H kids have a fun experience. IMO, the only way the shows would be "fair" is if ALL the judges adhered to the...

We have 5 bulls in service: Aged 4 to 12 years old. All of ours are docile and you can walk among them (the're in separate pastures with their girls). They respond to hand signals and verbal commands to "come" or "get back", etc. In our 10 years of having Longhorns have never had a problem...

IMO, the best way to not have to eat "undesirable things" is to never put yourself in a place or situation where survival skills would be necessary to stay alive (mandatory military service in a godforsaken place excepted). It also includes not having enough "normal" food (for you) on a hiking...

Cooked well done (without onions)...THEN, the "Other Dog Food!" P.S.: I'd eat tree bark before I'd attempt to eat any "organ meat"...even in a survival mode...lol.

Is there any meat quality in the cheeks and are there other cuts to watch for him to want at slaughter time other than the obvious, tongue, tail, liver, heart? Alan "Dog Food"... RAB

Our cattle are inhaling water like there's no tomorrow... Otherwise, hanging in there and doing a lot of resting during the heat of the day. Spent couple hours on computer today searching hay sources in 5 different states. Wife talked to one producer in Nebraska that has alfalfa/orchard grass...

This heat is unreal!! All across the USA. Feel sorry for those cattle that don't have Brahman influence (or) Texas Longhorns! Saw on news where some 1,500 cattle died from heat in S. Dakota. Don't know what breed they were. On a sidebar, with the extreme drought conditions all over as well...

No offense taken. The "regular sized Longhorns" probably number in several hundred thousand in the USA alone, not counting thousands found in other countries. Yes, Longhorns could be considered a "nitch market" when you compare to the tens of millions of "commercial" cattle in North America...

Another very small nitch market with expensive cattle... A novelty.

Yes, true. Around and after the Civil War, the thousands of longhorns were hauled to East 1/2 of USA to feed people. Otherwise, they would have had to eat pig, sheep, goat, chicken, and roadkill... Or, pay for Japanese imported beef... It IS possible to have a lot of horn as well as a...