In 1967, coming on 57 years ago, when our family acquired our first registered Texas Longhorn cattle, things were different. Our cows had between 27 and 32" horn T2T, cows weighed 700 to 800 lbs, weaning calves weighed about 250 lbs., and some had a disposition that almost required a cape to handle them. ...
On May 5, 2013, Barnesville, Ohio, a little heifer was born. She was long, tall and mostly white. At DCC we had no idea of what this was the start of. ...
Transport of a $300 commercial critter and a $150,000 valuable Texas Longhorn requires a difference in mentality, planning, equipment and a serious determination for safety. Don’t take this wrong. Don’t think the life of a $300 critter is of no value, but when one animal can be worth 500 times ...
In about 1949, I started working in the field for my grandpa, Lester Wilshire. He had five daughters and was disappointed not to get a single son. He needed a lot of help in his fields and realized that at my age I couldn’t contribute much—but I was free labor, except for what I ate. ...
The www.arrowheadcattlecompany.com site is a wealth of data with every "factoid" and list one could dream of. The analytical mind of Craig Perez never ends as it is zeroed in on every milla-whackey of horn info.Arrowhead is the gold standard of Texas Longhorn horn data. No association had ...
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