Opinions on this replacement

[cowgirl8]

Trying to decide whether to go in this direction with our herd....

And of course i'm kidding. Found this in one of our pastures. Who buys/raises cattle like this??? :lol2: Yeah yeah, people who want problem free cattle...Well, built a fence that was suppose to keep this guys cattle where they belong, but they still get through. Most run the countryside. I'm guessing he has no idea how many cows he has, when some are missing, and he does have them die calving. Not even sure how one would get this through a chute.. I dont like horns and neither do our cows, they looked at this cow like she was a alien..

 

[Lucky_P]

Newbie neighbors down the street...young military couple...moved to 'the country' with a 6 acre farmette. Decided to get into the cattle business...somebody suckered them into buying 3 bred Longhorn cows and a steer. Told them 'they birth easily' and they're gentle. Scroungy little steer - wild as a March hare - bailed out the first day after delivery. Crossed 2 fences on the next door neighbor, went through 4 hot fences on my place to get in with my cows. Managed to get him in the corral once... but he bailed out of there when we tried to load him.
Spent about 6 weeks here before I could get a friend with a dart gun to tranquilize him. Hauled him home, and I think they kept him in a stall in the barn for about 6 weeks before they turned him back out. He's staying home for the time being... but I suspect they'll be disappointed with the eating quality...unless they're just planning to grind the whole thing up into burger.

 

[Big Cheese]

We have Longhorns and have had zero problems with them. Love them actually. Breeding them to a Charolais bull they raise AMAZING calves. You obviously don't know the benefits of running Longhorns. They just keep impressing me every day we have them. If you would like to learn about them we have a Longhorn thread on here your welcome to read it.

 

[Supa Dexta]

Sounds amazing alright. op:

 

[Muddy]

Sounds amazing alright. op:

You guys all just got baited...

 

[Nesikep]

Lucky P, sounds like an old neighbor of ours.. rich doctor's son.. bought a whole potload of longhorns and turned them out on the range around our place, giving us the problems

I really enjoy looking at them, I find them pretty, and the ones I had experiences with were surprisingly tame... I wouldn't mind having ONE as yard art

 

[Andyva]

Yard art is a primary function of longhorns around here. I had a jackleg rent the neighbors place, went to check cows and had a Holstein heifer with fresh sale barn stickers. Penned her up and it took him two days to come get her. Then he whined about my bull breeding her. Of course he bred her, why the H do you think she got out. Might help to check the fence before you dump a load of heifers with no bull. Thinking about sending him a stud service bill. At least she didn't have horns big enough to tear anything up.

 

[cowgirl8]

Yard art is a primary function of longhorns around here. I had a jackleg rent the neighbors place, went to check cows and had a Holstein heifer with fresh sale barn stickers. Penned her up and it took him two days to come get her. Then he whined about my bull breeding her. Of course he bred her, why the H do you think she got out. Might help to check the fence before you dump a load of heifers with no bull. Thinking about sending him a stud service bill. At least she didn't have horns big enough to tear anything up.

I checked the fence, and nothing showing that she could have gotten through. I think that would be too easy for a longhorn, one fence. It is a stock wire fence with barbed wire at the top....So i think she crossed somewhere in the woods where he has a 5 strand fence and then crossed a few more fences into this pasture. When i saw this cow, i was pretty far away and in my head i was screaming, "THAT BETTER NOT BE A BULL!!!" We have some good bulls over there if she gets bred she'll be ok, so when we get them up to wean we'll pull her out and send her on her way home..I'm too lazy to get her now, that herd is due to rotate into a pasture about a mile away and will run to that gate if i go out action like i want them to move. There is one cow in there that leads them all and will not go out of rotation..
Big Cheese, i dont think yours look like this one..This guy picks them up at the sale barn cheap and throws them out. He has the same kind of land we do, we bale his pastures...He runs about the same amount of cattle per acre as we do on this end of the ranch, feeds about the same amount of hay and gets calves about 100 to 200 pounds smaller that are marked like longhorns(which takes a big hit at the sale barn)....If he invested in some good beef crossed cows and used the angus bulls he runs anyway, he'd make a lot more on his calves with the same amount of work.
One year we had one of his cows in our pasture i called cantaloupe leg...She obviously had some big infection he didnt tend to and her foot got really scarred and was the size of a cantaloupe..bless her heart..We'd put her back in her pasture and the next day she'd be back in ours....I think he finally hauled her off..

 

[Muddy]

A black angus bull on longhorn cows is a poor combination. Should've had went with a Charolais or a limousin bull.

 

[HDRider]

A black angus bull on longhorn cows is a poor combination. Should've had went with a Charolais or a limousin bull.

That seems to be a fact.

 

[cowgirl8]

My daughters longhorn has nice calves when crossed with an angus..This year she had a solid black polled heifer that looks good and someone will buy her as a angus and will pay extra for her. If kept for a brood cow, the new owner will be surprised when she throws skunktails like daughters longhorn.
The neighbor has 'longhorns', the small scrawny variety. Most of what people buy as longhorns are mixes and can handle a char. This heifer pictured weighs around 500 pounds if that much and i'm going to guess she's well over a year old when you consider the size of her horns. I'm going to say more like 2....may not even be a heifer..No way no how would i ever put this poor thing with a char bull...he's break her in half...lol

 

[TexasBred]

She's probably that old and IF he ever gets her back home she'll raise him a good calf. It won't sell like a good beef animal but the cow cost about half as much too so it's just an operation with low priced cattle, low imputs and knowing the calves won't bring all that much money....heck i'd breed her back to a longhorn or a corriente...calf ropers will beat your door down for them. T hat being said, "I don't want one either". :lol2:

 

[HDRider]

She's probably that old and IF he ever gets her back home she'll raise him a good calf. It won't sell like a good beef animal but the cow cost about half as much too so it's just an operation with low priced cattle, low imputs and knowing the calves won't bring all that much money....heck i'd breed her back to a longhorn or a corriente...calf ropers will beat your door down for them. T hat being said, "I don't want one either". :lol2:

They do..

 

[cowgirl8]

I know her head is worth more than her body...I could take that head, cover it in mosaic glass and sell it for around 1,000.... The one i have on my wall is off his place. Husband says he has quite a few out there laying around.

 

[TexasBred]

She's probably that old and IF he ever gets her back home she'll raise him a good calf. It won't sell like a good beef animal but the cow cost about half as much too so it's just an operation with low priced cattle, low imputs and knowing the calves won't bring all that much money....heck i'd breed her back to a longhorn or a corriente...calf ropers will beat your door down for them. T hat being said, "I don't want one either". :lol2:

They do..

Around here they do...got worlds of HS age kids that learn to rope early and go to ropings every weekend (trophies only). They all have a half dozen or more calves at all times. Some folks buy roping calves and then loan them out to the kid. The kid keeps custody of htem on his place, ropes them, feeds them and then gives them back to the owner when they get too large for roping. Owner has a calf ready to go right back to market.

 

[Muddy]

I doubt longhorns and Corriente cows will have any problems with a char bull.

Also I doubt a solid black LH cross cow will throw skunktail calves if she's bred to a solid colored breed.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Gosh your smart.

 

[Big Cheese]

A lot of ours started out that size and have grown into some pretty big Longhorn cows. We have a few that are smaller but none of them are having any problems having Charolais cross calves and some are some pretty big calves about 80 pounds. Also Most not all are coming out solid color...spotted up with yellow and also the ones that are coming out spotted are lighting up as they get older where they look almost all white. They doesn't happen with black or even red only with the Char cross. They look better then our full beef calves as well. They can be used for way more then yard art....a lot of people in my area are going with Longhorns as replacements.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

That's bullshit cheesey a Red limousin will make them just as solid a color and maybe more solid colored calves than a Char bull will.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

She's probably that old and IF he ever gets her back home she'll raise him a good calf. It won't sell like a good beef animal but the cow cost about half as much too so it's just an operation with low priced cattle, low imputs and knowing the calves won't bring all that much money....heck i'd breed her back to a longhorn or a corriente...calf ropers will beat your door down for them. T hat being said, "I don't want one either". :lol2:

They do..

you better be mounted to when you back in the box, they run like the wind..