A couple of weeks ago we had to drive a bunch of cows and calves about 20 miles to a new pasture. It was cold, snowey, and slick. The first day the twenty horned Herefords led the way the whole day even though they had never been on that route and had no idea of where they were going. All the other cattle had been down that route many times but could barely keep up. There were blacks, black baldies, and dehorned Herefords in the followers. Eighteen of the twenty horned cows were first through the gate. I thought that the second day the horneds would be slower because they should have been tired out but again they were the first through the gate. Horneds are absolutley more agressive and that suits our big, open, rough range just fine. They graze farther from the water hole and protect their calves.
We have neighbors that have horned Herefords but dehorn all of them and they are just as dogey as the polls. It is a psychological thing with those weapons.
