It’s All in the Name The ITLA has had many firsts in its over 30 years, including the color photograph on the Registration Certificate, the Approved Judges program, the new web site allowing data entry on our cattle, the Longhorn Judging Clinic, and the only member owned Headquarters in Longhorn history. The ITLA has added another first to the list of accomplishments. The Brazilian Texas Longhorn Association recently requested to join up with the ITLA, and the Board of Directors unanimously approved the ITLA’s newest affiliate. The founders of the ITLA knew that the Longhorn could appeal to the world and did not need defined borders. By including International in our name over 30 years ago, the Founders put the ITLA on a course that perhaps they never could have imagined. The Brazilian Texas Longhorn Association is an association that is excited to officially be a part of the ITLA, and members are planning to attend the Convention and Championship Show in October. The goal is for additional countries to form associations that can affiliate with the ITLA to spread the good Longhorn word around the world and open up new markets. The ITLA has formed an International Advisory Committee that will assist in continuing to grow this ground breaking effort. International in our name provides an invitation to the world that boundaries do not exist and that everyone is welcome to share in this great breed, the ITLA Founders got it right.
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The first groups of cattle to arrive in the Americas originated from Iberic breeds. They entered the continent in the 15th century. The cattle were introduced to North America 50 years prior to entering South America. The Brazilian equivalent to the Texas Longhorn breed is the Brazilian Longhorn Creole. Due to common ancestry, the two breeds share most characteristics, however, centuries of natural selection and selective breeding have created some mild phenotypic differences among the two breeds.
Like Mr. Dedemo first said, “the Texas Longhorn and Brazilian Longhorn Creole are like twin breeds that were separated at birth.” The Brazilian Texas Longhorn Breeders Association (ABRALHO) was founded in August of 2020. The board of directors of ABRALHO s honored to be the first international affiliate of the International Texas Longhorn Association. Projects for herd expansion and market development between ITLA and ABRALHO will be crucial for the success of the Brazilian Longhorn cattle.
Last month we talked about deworming, this month I’d like to talk a little about vaccines. There are a confusing array of vaccines available out there but they can be broken down into basic types. The main types are respiratory complex/reproductive and clostridial (commonly known as 7-way or blackleg) vaccines. Respiratory vaccines are effective against a number of pathogens that cause upper respiratory and diarrheal diseases such as Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR), Parainfluenza 3 (PI3), Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV) and Bovine Viral Diarrhea Types 1&2 (BVD). These vaccines are often in combination with Campylobacter Fetus, Leptospira CanicolaGrippotyphosa-Hardjo-Icterohaemorrhagiae-Pomona Bacterin, which can cause abortions. These vaccines come in either a killed or modified live virus form. Killed vaccine products do not require mixing and are generally safe to administer to pregnant cattle. Modified Live vaccines require mixing and cannot be stored after they are mixed. Modified Live vaccines are also generally not safe to give to pregnant cattle (except under certain circumstances) as they can cause infection in the fetus, but also provide generally stronger and faster immune response when compared to kill vaccine products. Clostridial vaccines come with a variety of pathogens included. I usually recommend one containing tetanus, especially if bull calves will be castrated at vaccination time. Clostridial vaccines can contain any of the following components which can cause various diseases: Cl. chauvoei (blackleg), Cl. Septicum (Malignant edma), Cl. novyi Type B (blackleg disease, necrotic hepatitis), Cl. haemolyticum (Bacilliary Hemoglobinuria Red Water), Cl. sordellii, Cl. Tetani (Tetanus), and Cl. perfringens Types C&D. Clostridial vaccines are only available in a killed virus formulation. There are also a number of other vaccines that you can consider based on your herd’s individual situation. These include pinkeye, mastitis, calf scours, Pasteurella multocida/Mannheimia haemolytica, and rabies. Yes! Rabies! Regardless of the type of vaccine that you choose you should always keep vaccines cold and protected from sunlight. Many vaccines require a booster dose before annual dosing is recommended. Be sure to read and follow all label directions for your vaccines of choice. When you have questions about what vaccines you should be including in your heard health protocols consult your local veterinarian for recommendations specific to your area. Until next month, may your pasture be green and your calves be healthy!
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Grassfed is becoming very popular in recent years. It has grown about 20% every year. In most countries grassfed is very common, most of the grassfed beef in the stores in the United States comes from Brazil and Australia. Grain fed beef didn’t start in the US till the 40s and 50s when it was found that cattle could be raised faster and cheaper on grain than on pasture. The average steer on grain is normally ready at about 18 months where as the grassfed is about 24 to 30 months. It also takes up less land to finish one out on grain versus finished on grass. What is “grassfed”? All cattle are “grassfed” 80% of their life, the difference is they finished out on pasture and hay or finished out on grain. The term “grassfed” gets thrown around and taken lightly but there are people that cannot eat grain finished beef because it makes them sick. I have a customer in Oklahoma that raises Angus cattle and sells his own beef but buys grassfed beef from me because his wife can not have grain fed beef, pork or chicken. It will make his wife sick. They made lots of trips to the ER before they figured it out. Grass finished beef means that they were on pasture all the way up to the time they went to the processor and were never fed grain. Grass-fed beef may not be as tender as grain-fed beef due to the (typically) lower fat content . Additionally, grass-fed beef tends to have a stronger and “meatier” flavor similar to other leaner meats such as bison and venison. Grass finished beef is a richer source of the fat-soluble vitamins A and E. Meat from grass finished animals contains a higher amount of omega 3.
Grain finished beef may not be as healthy, but it is still providing a healthy choice of protein. If it wasn’t for feed yards and grain finished beef, it would be impossible to keep up with the demand for beef. The other advantage to grain fed is you control the consistency of the flavor because you control what they eat, and they are all eating the same thing. With grass finished some like eating grass, some weeds and brush and some a combination of all of it so each one will have a little different flavor. Grain finished is also more tender because they lay around in the feed yard and don’t move around a whole lot.
I hope that gives you a little better understanding of grass finished, and grain finished. I personally eat both and enjoy both. I hear some people that sell grass finished beef saying how bad grain fed is. Don’t do that. The beef industry is under attack and we need to support each other. If all beef was grass finished, you could not provide enough beef to feed the public, nor could they afford it.
Curtis and Tonya Abel live in Paradise, Texas and have two children, Cody (11) and Danalee (9). They have owned longhorn cattle for three years. The Abels initially purchased two cattle for their son and daughter to show, in order to teach them responsibility. It quickly blossomed into a full-fledged longhorn obsession and a growing herd of 25 head. Curtis is the Sales Manager for United Ag and Turf. Tonya has been teaching for 15 years, and is currently the Gifted and Talented Coordinator for Decatur ISD. They are eager to get to know all the youth throughout the country, and learn how they can best serve them through this role. The Curtis’s will be joined by Youth Ambassador’s: Amber Dunmire, Kyla Lovejoy Lizz Huntzberry Bonnie & Shadow Seaman In coordinating youth programs, events and sponsorships for the ITLA
Quick and easy Mexican Lasagna: 1 kg of Texas Longhorn ground beef 1 cup of grated cheese ½ cup of chopped onion 1 bottle of salsa sauce 1 cup of parmesan (or regular cheese) 1 can of red beans 1 cup of grated cheese 1 pack of large tortilla’s 2 cups of cottage cheese 1 egg Fry ground beef with onion, add salsa and beans, season with salt and pepper! Mix together cottage cheese, egg and parmesan. Fill the following order in a 10cm high baking pan: Tortilla’s ½ cottage mix. 1/3 meat sauce Tortilla’s ½ cottage mix. Etc............. Bake at 175 ° C for 45-50 min. We like to but some of that lasagna on the plate and put fresh tomato pieces, chopped onions, salad and rasped cheese on top and pour some salsa sauce over it.
Cattle branding still plays an important role in identifying an animal's owner in cattle ranching. The practice of branding is ancient. Some Egyptian tomb paintings at least 4,000 years old depict scenes of roundups and cattle branding, and biblical evidence suggests that Jacob the herdsman branded his stock. Fire or Freeze branding mark into the hide of an animal is the only method of marking that lasted the life of the animal. The practice of branding came to the New World with the Spaniards, who brought the first cattle to New Spain.
Every ITLA Member is expected to comply with the ITLA By-Laws on branding cattle for permanent identification purposes as updated in ARTICLE SIXTEEN REGISTRATIONS Registration Requirements for Non-Cloned animals. a. The sex of animal. b. The name of the animal. c. The date of birth (year, month and day). d. The individual fire or freeze brand ID number and its location on the animal. e. The holding ownership fire or freeze brand and its location on the animal. f. Color description in detail g. The name and registration number of sire. h. The name and registration number of dam. i. Signature of owner of sire. j. The name of the appropriate sire on service date of bred cow, for natural service only. A.I. service must attach A.I. Certificates. k. The name and address of breeder (owner of record of the dam at time of service). l. The ITLA will issue registration certificates on steers that are from a registered Texas Longhorn herd. The registration application shall state that it is a steer and will include the individual id number, holding brand, and detailed color description. m. Registration application shall be eligible for processing upon receipt of a completed application, containing proper signatures, and receipt of the appropriate fees.
The Ghost Riders in the Sky were chasing phantom cattle, “their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel…” The old-time balladeers wrote songs about their lives, and apparently branding was a big part of those. But the history of marking ownership of cattle by burning a specific design into their hides precludes jinglebob spurs and chuck wagons by a couple thousand years. Branding was initiated a couple millenia ago by some ambitious Egyptians along the Lower Nile. According to a Nebraska Folklore Pamphlet produced through a Federal Writer’s Project in 1938, “The first recorded description of cattle branding was made 2,500 years ago on a tomb which was recently excavated near Thebes..One side of its walls bore mural decorations of a cow tied down and a man branding her with a geometric design. “It is known that branding irons were used in England in the eighth century; while a French writer, Jean J. Jusserand stated that, in the year 1400, horses kept for rent were branded ‘in a prominent manner, so that unscrupulous travelers would not be tempted to leave the highway and keep the steeds.’ An article by David Dary on the Texas State Historical Association website suggests the practice may be even older than that, with Egyptian tomb paintings estimated to be at least 4,000 years old depicting roundups and cattle branding. “Biblical evidence suggests that Jacob the herdsman branded his stock. Burning an identifying mark into the hide of an animal was, until the invention of the tattoo, the only method of marking that lasted the life of the animal.” The Spaniards brought the practice of branding to the New World, when they brought cattle to New Spain, Dary writes. “When Hernán Cortés experimented with cattle breeding during the late sixteenth century in the valley of Mexicalzimgo, south of modern Toluca, Mexico, he branded his cattle.” Cortés branded his cattle with three Latin crosses, which may have been the first brand used in the Western Hemisphere.
According to Dary, “As cattle raising grew, in 1537 the crown ordered the establishment of a stockmen’s organization called Mesta throughout New Spain. Each cattle owner had to have a different brand, and each brand had to be registered in what undoubtedly was the first brand book in the Western Hemisphere, kept at Mexico City. Soon after the Spaniards moved north into Texas and cattle raising developed on a large scale during the middle eighteenth century, the crown ordered the branding of all cattle. Across the Rio Grande, on the Anglo-Texas frontier, cattlemen used much simpler brands, made with “dotting irons,” according to The Texas State Historical Association Texas Almanac, by Mary G. Ramos. These irons were usually three shapes, a straight line, a small half-circle and a large half-circle. With these three irons they could create nearly any letter or number, but required numerous applications. Richard H. Chisholm registered the first brand in Texas in 1832, in Gonzales County. Following independence from Mexico, the Republic of Texas encouraged ranchers to register their cattle brands but did not require it until 1848, after joining the United States. After that, no one could be prosecuted for stealing cattle unless they were branded with a registered brand. In 1881 George B. Loving published The Stock Manual in Fort Worth, Texas. It contained the name, post office address, ranch location, marks and brands of all the principal stockmen of western and northwestern Texas, showing marks and brands on electrotype cuts as they appeared on the animal. From Mexico and Texas, branding followed the flow of cattle and horses northward and westward across America. So, really, what’s in a brand? Sometimes letters, numbers, symbols, lines and circles, or your initials.But always, and most importantly, there’s pride of ownership. Those irons hangin’ in the barn, that brand traced in the cement step or burned into the doorframe and the livestock wearing it wherever they go, representing you. Courtesy Tri-State Livestock News
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Wow! I blinked and it is already May! I am finishing my Sophomore year of High School and it has been busy around our place. Between school, my job, shows and taking care of my cattle, I have barely had time to look up and the hay is now ready to cut! I know all of you are just as busy; just as excited the ground is wet enough to grow some hay and ready for a summer of even more excitement!
April saw two awesome ITLA Shows for me. The first one was in Sulphur Springs and I loved every minute of being able to pass out awards and have my picture taken with some great kids and awesome longhorn breeders. I was so excited to have that show so close to home. Later in the month came the CTTLA Show In McKinney. It is always a favorite to me. They have great facilities, a very accommodating show host and some really neat prizes, to boot! It was a very special show for me, because my steer, Circle B Free Willie, won Reserve Champion Youth Steer on Saturday! Willie was a donated steer and I hashtagged him #willieisawinner when I first won him and he made it true last weekend. I am so proud of him! This show also allowed me to show some awesome cattle for EJS Ranch, Carving Creek Ranch, and a calf at side for the Knoerr’s.. I really enjoy helping any way I can at the shows and look forward to the fall! I feel so honored to be a part of the ITLA and some main reasons are coming up in May and June. The Judge’s Webinar the first part of May is a great opportunity to learn why Longhorn Cattle are so unique and the traits they should have. Coming up the first part of June is the ITTLA Educational Field Day in Itasca, Texas. So many awesome things are planned for that weekend and I look forward to seeing you there! Thank you all for being so great when I get to meet you and I look forward to seeing you all down the road!
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Micha Hamersky from Austria is on at 2 am this year again since (2013 everytime it took place) I guess a Red Bull on the picture is the most Austrian indicator seen in it. (LOL) “This time, there was a lot of new pictures and also a lot of new infos like some Horn knowledge”
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