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2025 is your Christmas to buy a mini longhorn.
This is the year for you to finally get a pair of absolutely gorgeous yard art to enjoy for years to come. What better way do you have of getting all that grass mowed and the fire hazards removed around your place. Stop the spraying, mowing and weed eating get yourselves a pair of mini longhorn steers. They are economically and environmentally friendly, only fools believe cow gas is a problem. You can even show them at state fair and people always love to take pictures and se


Minerals to save you money, Stop throwing money away on high cost, molasses tubs?
Wow, now that is a statement to make you think or start hating me! I can't say I am fully convinced one way or other but I do like to read new as well as informative articles and have found several in different publications that make me wonder. Recently, the Trails magazine had an article on grass tetenus in cows and how the published and accepted way the academia and industry paid advisors said to do things only had mediocre at best results. Then it mentions an old rancher w


Using AI from top bulls
We have decided to start a long term project of introducing extreme twist to our mini longhorn herd. This is a very fine balancing act. We must balance size as well as horn genetics. We have several cows that exhibit nice twist on them however they lack the growth potential early on that we see in many standards. One of our goals is to put a triple twist on a cow under 45 inches, but have her horns match her height by 4 yrs old. We currently have several cows that have done t


2025 is your Christmas to buy a mini longhorn.
This is the year for you to finally get a pair of absolutely gorgeous yard art to enjoy for years to come. What better way do you have of getting all that grass mowed and the fire hazards removed around your place. Stop the spraying, mowing and weed eating get yourselves a pair of mini longhorn steers. They are economically and environmentally friendly, only fools believe cow gas is a problem. You can even show them at state fair and people always love to take pictures and se

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Surprise, Surprise Surprise, new calf
Well it's amazing how flexible you have to be on a farm. All your list and plans can just fly right out the window in a moment. We were...

J. A. Thomas
May 3, 20213 min read
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OWT Using tail switch to tell if it will be a heifer?
Ok, So I am intrigued by old wives tales and their bases as well as accuracy. Now before you just jump straight off the science cliff how...

J. A. Thomas
May 2, 20212 min read
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Four new heifers!!!
Excited to be adding new color and bloodlines to our herd. Love the horn length and small size of these options. I went looking...

J. A. Thomas
Apr 12, 20212 min read
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Let the calving begin.
Well believe this or not this guy gave us a jump on our calving season and he is not Mini longhorn or at least not purebred. This is the...

J. A. Thomas
Mar 7, 20212 min read
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