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But they sure love Poison Ivy!

It really depends on what you mean by "support it's self". Do you mean you want to live there and not work. Yes, you can homestead and live off the land. You would be poor and would need at least a part time job or a savings or something like that. I fall into the living off the land and...

Do you HAVE to buy cattle right now? The prices are so high that I know breeders taking reg. cattle to the sale barn because slaughter prices are so high. I just sold a 16 month old bull, a skanky looking thing that had been running in the woods, thin, rangy, a horned yellow whiteface with a...

You Angus fanatics will hate me for saying this, but this is the land of free speech. The Angus Beef groups such as CAB, seems a bit shady and scammy and I think it's a great way for folks with black cows to sell their whatever cows to city folks. Herefords marble and there are at least two...

I completely agree, txshowmom. I "organically, naturally, and humanly" poll my cattle by the "genetic" method: A polled bull! Why breed horns into cattle then cruelly cut them off or leave them on just to have an accident waiting to happen? You horned people can have the horns, I'll keep my...

What breed? I have fall and winter calves sometimes and they have no different disposition than the rest....mellow.

I am a goat/cattle rancher...so to speak. Goats eat weeds, sheep eat grass. Goats make good complimentary herd to a cattle herd because they don't compete for food. Sheep, however, will compete with cattle for the grass. Grass is the LAST thing a goat wants to eat. Goats, if they have...

Polled. Nice dark red ones are a site to behold. Grew up with them and love them still. I have a "Victor" bull too.

Yes, he is real purty.

Won't the dogs be chewing on their new wounds? They can reach anywhere you know.

I have Simmental blood in some of my cows. Often they will have that tell tale stripe across the shoulders. There is also a dilution factor in their genetic makeup that can cause a very pale yellow or golden color which is quite recognizable if you are familiar with the breed. There are a few...

Worst mistake, just recently. Allowing a bull yearling to get too big prior to loading to market. He is unloadable due to his size, Bos Indicus touch, horns and our futile attempts at loading him in a run down chute. He has learned he didn't have to load when he popped a gate back at me and...

I castrate the day after birth with a knife. The baby is still easy to handle, my momma cows are tame and allow me to walk up and handle the calves in the pasture and the knife doesn't present the possibility of gangrene as the band or Elastrator does. I don't wean my calves. I just sell them...

FREAKIN' WEIRD! The Ice Age is here! I sat with a flannel shirt on this morning drinking my coffee at sunrise on the front deck...at 58 degrees...in central Texas! It's supposed to be over a hundred every day for days on end here. We had a high of just 90. We set an all time record low for...

I'm glad you were able to get your land. My bank is small and local and every employee lives and works on a ranch so they understand. It makes it easy to get money. But won't you need to get some cattle on your land very soon for your ag. tax exemption? Or do you have a certain amount of time...

The last time I saw eye cancer in Herefords was in the late 1960's. My maternal grandparent's home was walking distance from the cattle auction barn and I spent numerous Saturday's there as a child. I saw the 1,500-2,000 or so head they ran through each week with the probing eye of a...

I like Polled Herefords and their crosses. They are our "family breed" since the 1920's. They are very calm and easy to work with, can scrounge a livin' off of anything, have an interesting history and they are very attractive and chunky. I could list more reasons but I would be repeating...

I looked at the "Messner" Herefords pics on the net, and sure nuff, they are horned. I guess the Domino line is either a very old one, going back prior to the division of polled and horned OR there are simply two lines. I surely don't know.

Thanks for all the info I got via PMs. I did learn quite a bit and am quite satified that I made a good choice when I selected my bull. I did get him to increase my herd size with his daughters. As far as the Domino line of bulls being horned, I have not found this to be true. All the...

txag, Is there a way to research these lines on the net? I do the same thing with my dairy goats, etc. I want to know everything. Thanks.