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<blockquote data-quote="Bullitt" data-source="post: 1468929" data-attributes="member: 31518"><p>The movie is The Rare Breed from 1966 starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and Brian Kieth. Maureen O'Hara plays an English woman who takes her Hereford bull to Texas. The bull does not survive a really cold winter, but the bull produces many calves. I always laugh because the calves are Herefords, not Herefords crossed with Texas Longhorns.</p><p></p><p>I do not think it is a Disney film, though.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060884/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060884/?ref_=nv_sr_1</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>"One of the most desirable qualities of the Texas longhorn breed is its high fertility. No other cattle breed can match its amazing high reproductive rates. This breed also goes through very early sexual maturity (gives birth). Texas Longhorn heifers typically conceive for the first time at the age of 15 months and then continues to calf yearly until the age of 16 years. Longhorn females also possess a naturally larger birth canal than other breeds. Texas Longhorn Females are also known to hide their calves from any predication."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://longhornfacts.weebly.com/to-consider-texas-longhorns-for-and-fun-facts.html" target="_blank">http://longhornfacts.weebly.com/to-cons ... facts.html</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>"Texas Longhorns are known for their high fertility and live birth percentages. It is common for herds of longhorn cows to achieve live calving percentages of 99% or more, a trait which is obviously highly valued by all cattlemen (commercial and otherwise). On the male side, Longhorn bulls are known to have higher live semen counts than bulls of other breeds, a fact which not only makes them more prone to successfully service their entire herd but is also directly linked to younger breeding ages in female offspring. </p><p></p><p>Most animal scientists agree that high fertility rates are the single most important economic trait in the cattle industry. Indeed, the surest way to a death sentence for a cow is to fail to breed back. In the case of Longhorns, the process of natural selection over the past few hundred years assured that only the most fertile bulls and cows would contribute to the gene pool. Modern day Texas Longhorns retain this influence from their recent ancestors, and it is a trait which, when introduced into a crossbreed program, can provide an almost immediate reversal of the problem of lower percentage of live births which plague many other breeds."</p><p></p><p> <a href="http://www.fairlealonghorns.com/Default.aspx?id=1052" target="_blank">http://www.fairlealonghorns.com/Default.aspx?id=1052</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bullitt, post: 1468929, member: 31518"] The movie is The Rare Breed from 1966 starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and Brian Kieth. Maureen O'Hara plays an English woman who takes her Hereford bull to Texas. The bull does not survive a really cold winter, but the bull produces many calves. I always laugh because the calves are Herefords, not Herefords crossed with Texas Longhorns. I do not think it is a Disney film, though. [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060884/?ref_=nv_sr_1]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060884/?ref_=nv_sr_1[/url] "One of the most desirable qualities of the Texas longhorn breed is its high fertility. No other cattle breed can match its amazing high reproductive rates. This breed also goes through very early sexual maturity (gives birth). Texas Longhorn heifers typically conceive for the first time at the age of 15 months and then continues to calf yearly until the age of 16 years. Longhorn females also possess a naturally larger birth canal than other breeds. Texas Longhorn Females are also known to hide their calves from any predication." [url=http://longhornfacts.weebly.com/to-consider-texas-longhorns-for-and-fun-facts.html]http://longhornfacts.weebly.com/to-cons ... facts.html[/url] "Texas Longhorns are known for their high fertility and live birth percentages. It is common for herds of longhorn cows to achieve live calving percentages of 99% or more, a trait which is obviously highly valued by all cattlemen (commercial and otherwise). On the male side, Longhorn bulls are known to have higher live semen counts than bulls of other breeds, a fact which not only makes them more prone to successfully service their entire herd but is also directly linked to younger breeding ages in female offspring. Most animal scientists agree that high fertility rates are the single most important economic trait in the cattle industry. Indeed, the surest way to a death sentence for a cow is to fail to breed back. In the case of Longhorns, the process of natural selection over the past few hundred years assured that only the most fertile bulls and cows would contribute to the gene pool. Modern day Texas Longhorns retain this influence from their recent ancestors, and it is a trait which, when introduced into a crossbreed program, can provide an almost immediate reversal of the problem of lower percentage of live births which plague many other breeds." [url=http://www.fairlealonghorns.com/Default.aspx?id=1052]http://www.fairlealonghorns.com/Default.aspx?id=1052[/url] [/QUOTE]
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