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<blockquote data-quote="TexasJerseyMilker" data-source="post: 1814289" data-attributes="member: 42782"><p>I read through this whole discussion. I'm glad some people like longhorns and some people make a lot of money. Some yard ornament breeders on here are sure good salesmen. I see there are some guys in Texas who set up by the highway with a saddled steer and take photos of tin horns and tourists. </p><p></p><p>To me there is something ignoble and embarrasing about saddling up and riding a bovine. Can they work cattle under saddle? Cattle are useful as oxen although outdated. Can they be harnessed in pairs of oxen like these or would they stab each other? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]33417[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>My great grandfather drove Longhorns on the Goodnight Loving trail. Yes longhorns are a part of history but personally I would not have one. There is something kind of freaky looking about those ridiculously long horns. What you are standing next to it and one sweeps it's head around to get a fly? They are very quick with those swords. They can really hurt each other with those horns. That's why we disbud our Jerseys.</p><p></p><p>If I raised cattle for their beauty I would raise the white Charlais. I love the look of milk white cattle grazing on a green hillside. Or standing in the moonlight with fire flies all around. Not only that you can sell them for meat. The cows are good milkers and the bulls are good for crossbreeding. And they have normal looking horns. although some are polled.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasJerseyMilker, post: 1814289, member: 42782"] I read through this whole discussion. I'm glad some people like longhorns and some people make a lot of money. Some yard ornament breeders on here are sure good salesmen. I see there are some guys in Texas who set up by the highway with a saddled steer and take photos of tin horns and tourists. To me there is something ignoble and embarrasing about saddling up and riding a bovine. Can they work cattle under saddle? Cattle are useful as oxen although outdated. Can they be harnessed in pairs of oxen like these or would they stab each other? [ATTACH type="full"]33417[/ATTACH] My great grandfather drove Longhorns on the Goodnight Loving trail. Yes longhorns are a part of history but personally I would not have one. There is something kind of freaky looking about those ridiculously long horns. What you are standing next to it and one sweeps it's head around to get a fly? They are very quick with those swords. They can really hurt each other with those horns. That's why we disbud our Jerseys. If I raised cattle for their beauty I would raise the white Charlais. I love the look of milk white cattle grazing on a green hillside. Or standing in the moonlight with fire flies all around. Not only that you can sell them for meat. The cows are good milkers and the bulls are good for crossbreeding. And they have normal looking horns. although some are polled. [/QUOTE]
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