Cowboymom
Well-known member
You misunderstand...I wasn't being degrading to a cow's mind. It just doesn't play the same importance as it does in a horse. It is like comparing apples and oranges. I helped a neighbor of ours who is a really good cowman and show jock buy a horse. He kept trying to buy something that had great conformation. He didn't have the checkbook to buy something that had great conformation and cart him around a branding pen. That is big bucks. You can have the most goose butted, jug headed, long necked horse, but if he works a cow, won't buck you off everytime you get on him and doesn't spook at every bird and butterfly, he is wonderful.
When you drop a lot of money on a bovine, you hope either it reproduces as good or better than that individual. With a horse, unless they are halter horses and even those have to have a certain temperment to deal with it, they also have to do whatever discipline you want them to do. To put simply, when you pay 5 or 10k for a yearling bull, you don't have to worry that it will also have "cow". Besides the ability to breed one!
When you drop a lot of money on a bovine, you hope either it reproduces as good or better than that individual. With a horse, unless they are halter horses and even those have to have a certain temperment to deal with it, they also have to do whatever discipline you want them to do. To put simply, when you pay 5 or 10k for a yearling bull, you don't have to worry that it will also have "cow". Besides the ability to breed one!