Those are some horns. Nice looking cattle too.What do yall use your Longhorns for? Entertainment, beef, lawn mowers?
We had some that came with a place my boss bought. I like watching them from afar but it's hard to get use to those big horns swinging so close to me.
This is one of my favorite pics of them.
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We started with 8 longhorns and 95 acres of very bad grass and weeds. Slowly added to herd with char bull and still have 3 of the pureblood as pasture eye candy. Works well as we keep the 1/2's to grind into the best, leanest burger meat you can imagine. Keeps 4 family in meet and the cows live on half of what the rest do
That's what I'm wanting is leaner meat, we brown and simmer more than anything.
You can get a wild one of anything, but they're typically pretty easy going. They are aware of where their headgear is.
Feral ones can be holy terrors. But the ones you see now on people's places, are as docile as any Herford. Not all of them have the magnificent spread like the white cow in the pic @Brute 23 posted. There are lines that are noted for tie huge horns, and show and ornamental LHs are bred to have those horns. But a vast majority of them, the "using" LHs, have horns more like the red one, third from the front, standing to the white cow's rear. You'd be surprised at how they can maneuver those horns through working pens, chutes, head gates etc.
Have you ever read Wild Cow Tales? It's a wonderful book by Benjamin Greene about his days as a cow-catcher and as a buyer taking orders on range delivery.
Back in the 80's, beefalo became all the rage around here for a while. Bison meat is lower in cholestrol and leaner than beef, and LH is the leanest of all beef. So several used LH as the cattle for breeding beefalo. Made for some scary looking animals, with dispositions more like a bison than a LH.
No. I haven't. But, I plan on starting back reading a lot after my cataract surgery in August.
Excellent, you should read Horse Tradin' by him if you get the chance.
No. Never had a reason to. You can put cubes down and spray him for flies, lice, etc. That's all he gets.
Our longhorn are pet gentle. Grandkids feed them all the time. They get no care at all and are always in great shape. We ai'd 2 last year, just pushed them between 2 panels and no issues. Gave us a chance to measure the spread also they always know where that horn tip is and I've never been hit. Now the crossed calves are another story for some unknown reason. You can't keep them in offense, they walk the cattle guards, and when you feed them out if they are separate, they get flat mean. But the meat is perfect for burgers. You can throw a patty on and it comes off, almost the same size with little grease
I have posted the video before. No, the little group of LH came with a property my boss bought.
Kudos to you!!! We have found that Texas Longhorns are the very best and most valuable breed to raise in this modern world. I wish I had discovered them sooner and have been breeding registered Texas Longhorns since 2002. Visit us at www.premierlonghorns.com and be prepared to be amazed. These are not your grandfather's Texas Longhorns and they are not what's for dinner. They are living western art, intelligent, athletic and can do anything a horse can do! A delicious Angus steak will satisfy you for a few hours but the joy of owning and having a personal relationship with a magnificent Texas Longhorn can last a lifetime.
I would like to see one of them.
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