Quick Steel wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:32 pm
David R, Ever since I first saw them in cowboy films, I have always wondered are Longhorns aggressive, i.e. dangerous.
Longhorns generally have a wild streak in my experience. They’re mostly nostalgic but there are a lot of them around here. A friend of mine who had Longhorns was constantly pestering me to breed some of my cows to his bull. Said the resulting calves would be smaller at birth and therefore easier for their mommas to birth them. I finally agreed to try it and took a couple of cows over to his place.
Well he was right, but those calves were wild! They kept jumping the fence and getting in my neighbor’s pasture, so when they were about 600 lbs I sold one. Before I could sell the other she jumped the fence again, two fences actually, so she was in my neighbors neighbor’s pasture. This time she didn’t come home, so I asked a friend from church, a part-time cowboy who was a team roper, if he’d help me catch her. He was excited about it and said he’d get his roping partner and come over the next Saturday,
Saturday morning he and his buddy showed up, unloaded their horses from the trailer and commenced trying to rope that half-Longhorn calf. The calf was not cooperative.
She kept jumping fences and each time she did, the cowboys had to open and close gates to get their horses into the right pasture. Where the chase would begin again!
They finally roped her, and I pulled the stock trailer to that pasture (by now they were a couple of miles from my place).
We finally got her into the trailer (which was a chore itself - she wasn’t cooperative then either). My friend asked me “Ken, you got any more like that ?” I said no. To which he said “ Thank God! My horse is plum wore out!”
Ken
