Running Arrow Bill
Well-known member
Nice discussion on Texas Longhorns! Pros and cons always welcome.
We have over 100 registered and eligible to register. Running 3 high end bulls. Have about 50-60 breeding cows. Rest are calves and near yearlings. Our cows range from about 950 to 1050 lbs. Bulls in the 1400 range.
All of ours are raised on grass and grass hay. No supplements other than minerals and salt. We slaughter 3 to 6 under 30 months each year for our farmer's market sales which have been good. We have good demand for grass fed, no hormones or steroids, no antibiotics, etc. Any older animals that are no longer appropriate for our program that we don't sell are turned into ground beef and/or smoked sausages. Tenderness is best in yearlings or two yearolds.
Go to our website for photos of some of our herd. We breed for horn and good body styles. Don't pull calves and have about 95% easy calving, survival rate. On rare occasion one calf will "fail to thrive", but that's the cattle business!
All of ours are gentle. If, by chance a calf turns out to be an "idiot" he goes to sale barn. We can manage our Longhorns with one person...they all have a "pasture name" and respond to us, including hand signals. If a cow doesn't raise a calf every year she is candidate for sale barn or our packaged USDA inspected beef sales program. We sell to new breeders, established breeders, cross-breeders to commercial cattle, and occasional "pasture ornament" customer.
Bill
We have over 100 registered and eligible to register. Running 3 high end bulls. Have about 50-60 breeding cows. Rest are calves and near yearlings. Our cows range from about 950 to 1050 lbs. Bulls in the 1400 range.
All of ours are raised on grass and grass hay. No supplements other than minerals and salt. We slaughter 3 to 6 under 30 months each year for our farmer's market sales which have been good. We have good demand for grass fed, no hormones or steroids, no antibiotics, etc. Any older animals that are no longer appropriate for our program that we don't sell are turned into ground beef and/or smoked sausages. Tenderness is best in yearlings or two yearolds.
Go to our website for photos of some of our herd. We breed for horn and good body styles. Don't pull calves and have about 95% easy calving, survival rate. On rare occasion one calf will "fail to thrive", but that's the cattle business!
All of ours are gentle. If, by chance a calf turns out to be an "idiot" he goes to sale barn. We can manage our Longhorns with one person...they all have a "pasture name" and respond to us, including hand signals. If a cow doesn't raise a calf every year she is candidate for sale barn or our packaged USDA inspected beef sales program. We sell to new breeders, established breeders, cross-breeders to commercial cattle, and occasional "pasture ornament" customer.
Bill