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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 657081" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>As a rule Texas Longhorns are very docile, gentle, and don't spook easily. Responsible breeders cull hard for temperament which with any breed is about 40% inheritable. There are a few Longhorns that are extremely protective of their new calves; however, as time passes the mamas calm down as soon as the calf is old enough to watch out for itself. There is also a high social influence with them: put an excitable animal in a group of very calm ones and over a period of time the excitable one will calm down (and vice versa).</p><p></p><p>ANY breed of cattle will "stampeed" if people or other predators whoop, holler, chase them, fire off their six-guns, etc. The most probable reason the old movies used Longhorns was that they "looked" more dangerous with their horns and made for good scenes in the movies.</p><p></p><p>Longhorns train very easily to lead as well as to ride. Long horned steers are occasionally trained as riding steers in parades, etc. [There are several such animals at the Ft Worth, TX. Stockyards "mall" that are ridden daily in the streets and mingle among the visitors and tourists...calm as a wild child with a double dose of Valium...lol].</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 657081, member: 9"] As a rule Texas Longhorns are very docile, gentle, and don't spook easily. Responsible breeders cull hard for temperament which with any breed is about 40% inheritable. There are a few Longhorns that are extremely protective of their new calves; however, as time passes the mamas calm down as soon as the calf is old enough to watch out for itself. There is also a high social influence with them: put an excitable animal in a group of very calm ones and over a period of time the excitable one will calm down (and vice versa). ANY breed of cattle will "stampeed" if people or other predators whoop, holler, chase them, fire off their six-guns, etc. The most probable reason the old movies used Longhorns was that they "looked" more dangerous with their horns and made for good scenes in the movies. Longhorns train very easily to lead as well as to ride. Long horned steers are occasionally trained as riding steers in parades, etc. [There are several such animals at the Ft Worth, TX. Stockyards "mall" that are ridden daily in the streets and mingle among the visitors and tourists...calm as a wild child with a double dose of Valium...lol]. [/QUOTE]
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