Longhorns in Ohio

[Rye Miles #13621]

On my way to my home club, Firelands Peacemakers, I pass this about 15 miles from the range. There’s about 25 of them. I snapped a pic of this dude!

 

 

 

[Michigan Slim]

I pass a herd to and from work. Most of them are trimmed off. The couple that are not ain't as big as that one!

[Cypress Sun]

 

I'm just surprised to see the grass/weeds as green as it is. I thought it was winter up there. The way my friend in NE Ohio describes this winter, you'd think he lived in the Artic Circle.

 

Nice pics.

[Rye Miles #13621]

5 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

I'm just surprised to see the grass/weeds as green as it is. I thought it was winter up there. The way my friend in NE Ohio describes this winter, you'd think he lived in the Artic Circle.

 

Nice pics.

It’s green here about 8-9 months! Actually if there’s no snow the grass is green in the winter too! Those pics were taken in the summer or spring..

[Pat Riot]

I used to pass these longhorns up in Oregon. I have more shots, but I can’t find them right now. 
 

[Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372]

We still got plenty of them down here in Texas!

[Alpo]

Them Texas longhorns still carry Spanish tick fever?

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I thought this would be about UT playing OU.

 

 

 

[Charlie Harley, #14153]

I wonder what was the evolutionary reason this cattle strain developed such horns.  They don’t seem effective for fighting, and would impede head movement.

[Rye Miles #13621]

11 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

I'm just surprised to see the grass/weeds as green as it is. I thought it was winter up there. The way my friend in NE Ohio describes this winter, you'd think he lived in the Artic Circle.

 

Nice pics.

Here's a pic of my backyard this morning. Grass is always green here! The brown is leaves I never raked!

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Here's a pic of my backyard this morning. Grass is always green here! The brown is leaves I never raked!

Hmm, Not quite the Arctic Circle described by my friend.

[J-BAR #18287]

4 hours ago, Charlie Harley, #14153 said:

I wonder what was the evolutionary reason this cattle strain developed such horns.  They don’t seem effective for fighting, and would impede head movement.

Part of it is selective breeding by the Spaniards who brought them to the New World.  Supposedly the horns increased in size as a defense against predators when the cattle became feral.  A good article:

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130325160514.htm
 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

  ..... yes, ....... but how much powder can be fit in them ?  

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

11 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

  ..... yes, ....... but how much powder can be fit in them ?  

The cows might object to that...

[Cheatin Charlie]

I misread  your post I thought you were talking about leghorns!

 

 

 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

33 minutes ago, Cheatin Charlie said:

I misread  your post I thought you were talking about leghorns!

 

 

 

 

 

 ............. let us not forget his "cousin" ....

 

 

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

There are 2 herds within a 10 mile drive of my house here in VA.

[Sedalia Dave]

22 hours ago, Alpo said:

Them Texas longhorns still carry Spanish tick fever?

 

 

Texas Cattle Fever

 

By 1954, the application of a standard arsenical dip treatment at 14-day intervals had resulted in eradicating both species of cattle ticks, Boophilus (Margaropus) annulatus and B. microplus, in the 15 states participating in the government program, except for a narrow zone along the Texas-Mexico border, where re-infection occurred from time to time because the adjacent area in Mexico was heavily infested.

 

Texas State Historical Society

 

Babesiosis is still a serious threat to livestock in many parts of the world. In the United States it has been eliminated by a vigorous program of cattle dipping, which eradicated the tick vector. King Ranch manager Robert J. Kleberg is credited with building the first dipping vat in the state. Before the disease was eradicated in this country, nonimmune American cattle were protected from it by elaborate federal quarantine laws separating southern cattle from others in railway cars and stockyards. Northern cattle imported to the South for breeding purposes could be immunized by receiving injections of small amounts of blood from infected animals. Mark Francis of Texas A&M was a pioneer in the development of this method of immunization.

 

[J-BAR #18287]

I was the USDA inspector on duty when several were brought to a rural packing house for slaughter and processing.  They were docile as house pets, and intelligent…. it was interesting to watch them figure out how to tilt and twist their heads to maneuver those horns as they moved through the chutes.  Can’t say how they taste, though, but the final products were premium priced.

[Capt. James H. Callahan]

Me rikey longhorns.

JHC