horns

[Hippie Rancher]

https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/2019/04/eric-schwennesen-horns.html?fbclid=IwAR0k5_JoQ4qEysmUZpn2AxIKYFph6T32-3Bg517xq56lK2ML1NsWHHA8JH8

I freely admit to a science bias; and in this case, a paleontology bias: our modern beef cattle are direct, linear descendants of the aurochs of the Pleistocene epoch. They were very big, and probably very mean, and expanded onto a planet covered with ice which in places was miles thick; and some other critters expanded right along with them who were even bigger and meaner, and wanted to eat them. This is when growing some horns started to seem like a good idea; and there were probably some memorable battles; mammals could be a lot bigger back then. Try fighting off a sabertooth tiger with your ears, and you'd grow horns too!

:lol2:

 

[Nesikep]

good read
I find it's all or nothing with horns... having one or two with horns in the herd gives them too much of an advantage, but if they all have horns it's an even playing field again.

I know a rancher way out in the bush, used to run a lot of horned cattle, Salers to boot.. Hardly ever lost a calf to wolves... Then he went with polled Red Angus and the losses started to go up.. Not sure if he's gone back to having Salers again.

Here's a good video as an example.. Them little cows sure have some attitude
https://youtu.be/ZPSxJVmLDMM

 

[Hippie Rancher]

great video! thanks! I love seeing how things work beyond my world.