Longhorns are pretty tough. They eat anything and are pretty calm.
I don’t know if I would go for a pair. Bulls will go through a fence to get some.

Maybe get a few heifers and have the bull come to you or go artificial.

He’s my favorite. Very friendly.

ewww...shots fired!

Sounds like good advice.

gud luc

Is that from the movie Taken?

Worth repeating. Much obliged.

get a super tight fence with electricity. Bags and bags of range cubes . they are beautiful animals.


they can be a handful. Google Springerhill Ranch. My best friend owns it. He started out raising longhorns, grinding them and selling the grass-fed beef . VERY healthy. Now he has made a small fortune in the Grass Fed Beef Business

He raised many longhorns and could tell you some stories and give you advice . Another buddy just has a few on 10 acres, yard art. He loved them

I have 5500 acre ranch across the street from me in Frisco. Loaded with Longhorns.

Pretty cool to look at most of the stay along Preston road or Main Street/Preston Road intersection

Back when my family owned our ranch the guy that surfaced leased the grazing rights was in the cattle business. He used our 235 acre place as one of his primary breeding spots.
He kept an old Lognhorn bull out there that was as tame as a pet as his primary breeder. He would regularly bring 50 - 60 mixed breed cows out there to get bred.
That old bull had a good life. The guy that ran the cattle said Longhorn cross mixes were some of the best cattle he ever had or sold.

Forget about the longhorns and get the 16 acres sprigged for hay. You still get an Ag exemption and you'll probably make more money.

You need about 15 acres per cow

only 16 acres? better have electric all around, and you'll be buying hay half the year.
Very cool animals - watch those horns, they can untie knots (in rope) and tear-up fences easy. I wouldn't have a LH bull with just 16 acres though.

read up this thread: https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/8100970/1

Imagine my surprise when I visited a farm that the parents of a coworker owned here in Alabama. 100 acres and they raised goats. They had one longhorn in the field. It was better at protecting the goat herd than anything else. A month prior to my visit, they found what was left of the neighbors German Shepard that had crossed the fence and harassed the goats. I knew they were pasture art, but not used to protect goats.

Here we need at least 35 acres per cow. That is one of the reasons I raise Ibex.

Raised and sold them for years. 30 momma's and always had a bull on my place . Sold and hauled um all over . Could get as much off a weaned calf as the black or white ones. Good solid registered cattle. Had a little over 100 acres in Fayette County Southwest of La Grange. . Feed them or have good grass/ pasture and they don't tear up fences. Sold the place and just have 10 acres now almost downtown Kingsland. Have a couple now for yard art. Granddaughters favorites. If that's what you want they're okay. Oh and butchered a yearling ever year. Good eating. Heck, donated a weaned bull calf to derkshen/Dave for his equestrian center years ago for the kids and a young man showed him all over at the stock shows. Won a few ribbon's I heard. Still have a powder river longhorn chute if anybody needs to work um. If you just like the looks of them, go for it.
Ps,
ask Dave about his trailer fiasco. 😀

And ya can also ride them....

Used to be a gal in Hico rode one to town a lot.

They are yard art, period!
No money in longhorns, $.60 lb all day long.

Not trying to break up a thread but can anyone tell me about the WATSU (sp) breed of cattle? I am seeing them more & more every where. Other than the huge horns anything special about them? Thanks Daniel

Only if you live in the desert.

Double that in a lot of the hill country.

More yard art but it's still beef.

Yeah and most of my ranch neighbors with large spreads and boo coo topnotch cows (1.00+ a pound) pulled a few calves every year. Lost some momma's (got there too late) . Always something pink eye, Respiratory problems, had to keep up on vaccinations. Those longhorns keep a clicking. put um out and nothing will get um except a bullet. Heck one year one of my neighbors borrowed this guy on His 50 head of Brangus for smaller birth calves. Didn't pull a one or no calving problems. Sold heavy calves at auction. Just don't raise roping steers (Corriente) some think those are longhorns.Here's the Bull I loaned. Gunslinger, About 1900 lbs. Still have a Bull out at the old place and He is well over 2000 lbs. Tame as a Puppy. Gunslinger came back about 200 pounds lighter. Done His job. Sold Him to a Ranch in Kansas. These Guys are for the Folks that don't want to babysit their herd. Put um out and let them be.

Only bad thing about these Guys is you almost have to have one of these to work them. This Power River Longhorn Chute was around $8000 bucks 10 or 15 years ago. Heard they quit making them. Still have it if anybody needs to work a few. Ain't for sale. Will haul for beer
. Oh, if you look close it works on cats also.