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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
One of my friends raises Longhorn cattle as a hobby-business. He has 60 acres and loves it.
Once a bull is um "turned into" a steer by castration the horns grow wider and longer. He had one steer who had horns so long he could walk up to an electric fence and just use his horns to push over the fence post and then walk out. My friend had to end up selling that steer just to be able to keep the fence up and the other longhorns in place.
The longhorns were almost eliminated at one point because other cattle breeds tasted better, and the cattle drives from the days of old were over. Most of the longhorns of today came from a small pool of longhorns in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge that were kept in Oklahoma.
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love the Wichitas. Spent many a week camping, hiking, fishing. Many an encounter with longhorn, bison, and elk. A little known jewel