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<blockquote data-quote="Rustler9" data-source="post: 187663" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>I've never been without cattle. My parents always had a herd of commercial stock just as both their families did. My father still has a herd of Beefmaster and crossbred cattle at the age of 70. Every year he says this will be my last year to fool with them but I know he'd be lost without them.</p><p></p><p>I got into Beefmaster cattle in the ninth grade as my FFA project. So my dad started using the registered Beefmaster bull that I bought on his Hereford, Shorthorn, Angus and Charolais cows. In a few years most of his herd had been bred up to Beefmaster. In recent years he's added black to his herd by using a black Beefalo, black Gelbvieh and now an Angus bull. </p><p></p><p>I still have some old Beefmaster and Beefalo cross cows that are old enough to vote. I got into Longhorns nine years ago when I saw a bunch at a Longhorn show at the county fair. I had always liked them when I saw them from time to time and had always wanted some. I wound up taking a friend that I worked with at the time to see a herd of them. I had talked to this fellow at the show and found out he was less than two hours from where I lived. When I got there and saw his weaning age heifers I decided I wanted one basically to keep as pasture art. My buddy who went with me asked me if he was to buy one too could he keep her at my place since he and his family lived in town? I decided that if we were going to buy two registered heifers why not go ahead and buy a young bull so I wouldn't have to breed them to one of my Beefmaster bulls.</p><p></p><p>That's how the Longhorn saga in my life got under way. We now have about 150 head of Texas Longhorn cattle. I can't ever see me living in town, not having cattle and especially not having my Longhorns. Now, I pretty much spend all of my time when I'm not at my day job working with and talking about Longhorn cattle. It's alot of hard work and there's alot of time spent but I can't think of anything I'd rather do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rustler9, post: 187663, member: 440"] I've never been without cattle. My parents always had a herd of commercial stock just as both their families did. My father still has a herd of Beefmaster and crossbred cattle at the age of 70. Every year he says this will be my last year to fool with them but I know he'd be lost without them. I got into Beefmaster cattle in the ninth grade as my FFA project. So my dad started using the registered Beefmaster bull that I bought on his Hereford, Shorthorn, Angus and Charolais cows. In a few years most of his herd had been bred up to Beefmaster. In recent years he's added black to his herd by using a black Beefalo, black Gelbvieh and now an Angus bull. I still have some old Beefmaster and Beefalo cross cows that are old enough to vote. I got into Longhorns nine years ago when I saw a bunch at a Longhorn show at the county fair. I had always liked them when I saw them from time to time and had always wanted some. I wound up taking a friend that I worked with at the time to see a herd of them. I had talked to this fellow at the show and found out he was less than two hours from where I lived. When I got there and saw his weaning age heifers I decided I wanted one basically to keep as pasture art. My buddy who went with me asked me if he was to buy one too could he keep her at my place since he and his family lived in town? I decided that if we were going to buy two registered heifers why not go ahead and buy a young bull so I wouldn't have to breed them to one of my Beefmaster bulls. That's how the Longhorn saga in my life got under way. We now have about 150 head of Texas Longhorn cattle. I can't ever see me living in town, not having cattle and especially not having my Longhorns. Now, I pretty much spend all of my time when I'm not at my day job working with and talking about Longhorn cattle. It's alot of hard work and there's alot of time spent but I can't think of anything I'd rather do. [/QUOTE]
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