Texas Longhorn Trails
SEPTEMBER 2011
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Feature Article: Grady Woods Longhorns A Foundation Resource By Henry King ..............................10-11
Articles: Feed Alternatives During Drought ..6 By Heather Smith Thomas Division C Director Elections ........15 Jerry McAdams Horse & Cattle Art 16-17 By Henry King Heat Stress In Cattle ..................24-25 By Heather Smith Thomas Summer Problems-Water Quantity and Quality By Heather Smith Thomas ..32
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Sales, Shows & Tours: West Coast Sale ....................................12 Heart Of Virginia Sale ........................26 ITTLA Sale ..........................................34
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(337) 328-7258 longhorn@camtel.net CHARLES SCHREINER III*
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n dry years or poor grass years, it can be difficult to provide adequate feed for cattle. Some alternative feeds are more feasible than others, depending on your location and how much freight cost is involved in hauling the feed. Ron Torrell, Area Livestock Specialist, University of Nevada, says a lot of people are scrambling to find ways to stretch their meager pastures and haystacks. “People who live close to farming areas have more flexibility and options than those of us who don’t. We don’t have access to by-product feeds. When freight costs $3.50 or more per loaded mile, this makes it prohibitive to haul this type of feed to the ranch,” he says. “If you are hauling low quality forages, on a cost per pound of nutrient basis this really kills you. If you look at baled corn stalks, for example, they are only 6 percent protein. There’s not very many tons of protein on a load,” says Torrell. You are better off to buy a more expensive protein-dense supplement. “Our alfalfa hay in this area is costing $150 or more per ton. A lot of people here are looking at baled corn stalks out of southern Idaho, but it’s not that good a feed. Most of the nutrients are in the leaves; the stalks are just roughage. But some people are doing that and buying some of the expensive alfalfa hay to mix with it,” he says. This is similar to mixing alfalfa and straw, and can work to meet a cow’s nutritional needs. “But there is a lot of wastage with corn stalks. The cattle won’t eat the larger stalks. One of the best investments a large outfit can make in this situation is a grinder mixer. It takes a pretty good tractor to run one of those, however, and the mixers are pretty expensive. But for a big operation, you could then mix some of these lower quality feeds with alfalfa and some dried distiller’s grain and balance the ration and cheapen it up. Some of the larger ranches have made this investment, so they can augment the lower quality grass hay that won’t quite meet the cows’ nutrient needs just before and after calving. This is a way to get by,” he says. “Another product we use in our area as low quality forage is rice straw. The Sacramento valley grows a lot of rice and we raise a lot of good dairy hay here in Nevada. The hay trucks are hauling our alfalfa to California and can bring back the rice straw as a back haul. But
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rice straw is also becoming more expensive. On normal years it’s been about $40 to $45 per ton, up to $60 a ton, but it keeps going even higher in price due to demand. The problem with rice straw is that the quality can be variable, depending on how it was put up. If put up correctly, it has fairly decent nutritional value (like a low quality grass hay, at about 6 percent protein), but if not, it’s no more than filler,” says Torrell. “If you fed some alfalfa with it, particularly if you could put it through a grinder mixer and balance the ration, it works well, however.” His concern is that a lot of people will try to buy corn stalks or rice straw and try to get by on this without adding other nutrients to balance the ration. “You can’t do that. The protein level would be so low the cattle won’t eat enough; it creates a very poor environment for rumen microbes and appetite is reduced,” he explains. The cattle won’t eat enough to meet their needs. “Another thing that needs to be mentioned is the value of sorting animals by class and body condition. Some don’t need additional nutrients and others do. There’s also the competition factor on the feed ground, when all the animals are together in one group. Heifers and thin cows can’t compete with the other cows, and the big boss cows that don’t need the extra nutrients are always the ones that get first chance at it. So this should be your first step, sorting and classing the cattle, and feeding each group according to nutritional demand.” The ability to do that for stretching fall and winter feed necessitates a tight calving interval—a short breeding and calving season. “If you have a short calving season you can sort the cattle and manage the wintertime nutrition program much better than you can if calving is strung out,” says Torrell. There’s no good way to sort the cows/heifers if they are in various stages of pregnancy or open and you don’t know which are which. Management is a huge part of the equation in getting through winter or drought with the least expense. “If you have enough feed on hand to barely get through the winter, it helps if you can sort and class the cattle so you can feed the better quality feed to the ones that need it and the poorer quality hay to the others. You can also feed the poorer quality feed first, so as you near
calving season and the cow’s nutritional requirements go up, you are able to increase the quality of the forage you are supplying to her, as well,” he says. You don’t want to run out of your best feed early on. Save your better feed for when it makes the most difference. “Another issue is deworming. If you haven’t used the type II dewormer in the past, you should use it this year, because you certainly don’t want to be feeding a bunch of internal parasites, especially if you have to spend extra money for feed. Also pay attention to your mineral program. A lot of times these lower quality forages don’t have sufficient vitamins or minerals. Start this program early in the fall, not just before calving,” he says. If the cow has adequate minerals she’ll have a healthier immune system and better colostrum. This will help reduce sickness and scours in young calves after the cows are calved out. With feed so short in some regions this year, some ranchers look at hauling their cattle to an area where they can put them on pasture, corn stalks, or some other type of residue feed somewhere. But with transportation costs so high right now you can’t afford to ship very many cattle. This has made it even more crucial to try to find alternatives for feeding the cattle at home.
By Heather Smith Thomas
Texas Longhorn Trails
Proud Member of the TLBAA Darlene Aldridge, DVM • John Parmley 8405 FM 1361 • Somerville, TX 77879 979-272-3600 home • 281-541-1200 cell www.starcreekranch.com darlene@starcreekranch.com
Give your breeding program Beadle Land & Cattle - Ray & Bonnie Beadle Los Gatos & Hollister, California (408) 834-0110 • (408) 656-6266 e-mail: rlbeadle@longfibre.com
Box Z Ranch - Steven Zunker & Louis Christa 1506 Harwood Road, Luling, TX 78648 Ranch mobile (210) 827-3940 www.boxzranch.com
Buckhorn Cattle Company - Buck & Sharon Adams 110 N. Broad, Guthrie, OK 73044 www.buckhorncattle.com (405) 260-1942 • (405) 282-9800
Eagles Ridge Longhorns - Paul & Judi Sellers
3245 Sugarloaf Key Rd, U21A, Punta Gorda, Florida 33955 (941) 979-2419 or (443) 624-0792 e-mail: ancopa5@yahoo.com
Kent & Sandy Harrell
15 W 6th St Ste 2510, Tulsa, OK 74119 (918) 299-6402 • (918) 733-4008 www.harrellranch.com • e-mail: Kent@harrellranch.com
Kaso, Lisa & Jake Kety - Little Ace Cattle Company P.O. Box 386, Folsom LA 70437 (985) 796-3918 e-mail: ketyfolsom@aol.com
PJ’s Cattle Company – Jim Swigert or Lance Swigert 2130 CR 100, Caldwell, TX 77836 Jim: (979) 224-2861 or Lance (979) 219-4902 e-mail: jim@swicoauctions.com or lance@swicoauctions.com www.pjslonghorns.com
McLeod Ranch – Michael, Jackie, Mike & Makayla McLeod 355 C.R. 303A, Edna, TX 77957 (361) 782-0155
Brennan & Michele Potts - Rocking P Longhorns
P.O. Box 579, Emory, TX 75440 (903) 473-2430 Cell: (903) 348-5400 www.rockingplonghorns.com • e-mail: bpotts1@verizon.net
Rafter H Longhorns - Kenn Harding, Tammy Tiner & Laura Harding 200 Pershing Ave., College Station, TX 77840 (979) 777-5256 e-mail: rafter-h@rafter-h-longhorns.com
Rio Vista Ranch - Elmer & Susan Rosenberger 4818 Eck Lane, Austin, TX 78734 (512) 266-3250 Cell: (512) 422-8336 e-mail: elmer@riovistaranch.com www.riovistaranch.com
Westfarms Inc. - Dale, Lynette, Leslie & Matt Westmoreland 13529 Hwy 450, Franklinton, LA 70438 (985) 795-1539 Cell: (985) 515-3172 e-mail: lwestmoreland.ees@wpsb.org
a boost with Butler genetics! Frank Anderson Jr. and III 828 South Rosemary Drive • Bryan, TX 77802 (979) 846-8020 • (281) 501-2100 edie.wakefield@gmail.com
Concho Ranch - Tony & Judy Cain 707 S. David St • San Angelo, TX 76903 (325) 657-0707 • (325) 650-4676 e-mail: tcconchoranch@hotmail.com
DALGOOD Longhorns - Malcolm & Connie Goodman (713) 782-8422 • Waller, TX e-mail: dalgood@comcast.net www.dalgoodlonghorns.com
Bob & Pam Loomis - Loomis Longhorns Rt. 1 Box 673 • Marietta, OK 73448 (580) 276-9265 • Fax (580) 276-3049 e-mail: loomis20@juno.com
Moriah Farms - Bernard Lankford Weatherford, TX (817) 341-4677 • (817) 319-9198 cell www.moriahfarmslonghorns.com
Rocking G Ranch - Mrs. Ramie Griffin 5005 Callais Road • Beaumont, TX 77713 (409) 892-2662 • Fax (409) 838-6926 Cell (409) 781-3215 e-mail: dayamisrockingranch@yahoo.com
Sidewinder Cattle Company - Ed Shehee, Jr. 1007 Airport Blvd • Pensacola, FL 32504 (850) 572-6595 www.sidewindercattleco.com
Jane’s Land & Cattle Co. - John & Jane Thate 418 W. Margaret St. • Fairmont, MN 56031 (507) 235-3467
Triple R Ranch - Robert & Kim Richey 21000 Dry Creek Road • San Angelo, TX 76901 (325) 942-1198 • e-mail: r3ranch@aol.com www.butlertexaslonghorns.com
V&J Longhorns - Vernon & Janis Webb 9303 Lone Star Rd. • Washington, TX 77880 (936) 878-2954
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ewton County, Texas is on the border with Louisiana, a short distance inland from the Gulf of Mexico in the upper reaches of the Big Thicket. One of the American settlers in what was then a colony of Mexican impresario Lorenzo de Zavala was Joshua Westbrook, who in 1835 established a homestead on Little Caney Creek. Joshua served with the Confederacy during the Civil War, and after those disastrous years worked hard to get reestablished. Like many Texans, Joshua Westbrook’s way back from financial hardship came through the abundance of wild cattle that he gathered from the river bottoms of the Neches and Sabine. Descendants from that herd would become the legacy of his great-great grandson, Grady Woods, who registered 30 Texas Longhorns with the TLBAA when the registry was formed in 1964. Grady Woods was the son of Alice Westbrook Woods and the grandson of John D. Westbrook. His grandfather gave him two Longhorn cows and a Longhorn bull when he was twelve years old, and he continued to raise Texas Longhorns when his neighbors were raising the more popular English breeds. Grady, however, inherited a love for things historical and for this line of Longhorn cattle, and it was his intent that they would survive as living examples, not just with words and legends. In addition to becoming a charter member and listing cattle in the startup of the Texas Longhorn registry, Woods also sold cattle to such foundation breeders as Milby Butler and Graves Peeler. While most of the cattle from the Woods line have been integrated into the universal population of the Texas Longhorn breed, a handful of committed ranchers see value in keeping them as a separate family. In an article that was a part of the 1996 TLBAA Breeders Handbook, Dr. Phillip Sponenberg spoke of the millions of Texas Longhorns that ranged the area in the late 1800s, before the breed nearly became extinct. He makes the point that those millions are not what became today’s Texas Longhorn. “What became the modern Texas Longhorn are those few herds that were carefully tended through the lean years. These foundations are important to the breed, for they shaped what the breed is and what it can become.” “Only a few families kept herds of Texas Longhorns through the lean years. Each of these lines was assembled from local cattle, so the breed was able to have a sampling of the geographic varieties of the original breed. The family lines that persist or were important to the foundation of the present breed include Grady Woods, Milby Butler, M.P. Wright, Emil Marks and Cap Yates. Other strains were assembled from a broader geographical range, and are more composite than the first five. The composite strains include Wildlife Refuge, Jack Phillips, and Graves Peeler.” Speaking specifically of the Grady Woods cattle, Dr. Sponenberg’s article states: GW n “The Grady Woods a w S ara
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strain developed in deep East Texas from local cattle. This bloodline was assembled in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some cattle were spotted, some were solid colors. Many had twisted horns. This line of cattle is important since it is the most eastern of the foundaT tion strains, although it odd, Ted and Tim Ayc ock, Vanclea ve, MS has had a minimal impact on the modern breed. Very few if any of this strain of cattle remain, although it has made some impact on a few herds.” “Originally, there were several families that kept the Texas Longhorn going,” Dr. Sponenberg said recently. “The seven is kind of an underestimate – there were probably more like ten, and several of those are extinct. With the Grady Woods, there’s a bit of a remnant there, and it is important to save.” The life work of Dr. Sponenberg is saving rare and endangered breeds. He earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M in 1976 and his PhD in Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University in 1979. Since 1981, he has been part of the faculty at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine with research interests in genetics of domesticated animals, coat color genetics and conservation of rare breeds of livestock. As an internationally recognized expert, Dr. Sponenberg has traveled around the world studying rare and endangered breeds and making recommendations about how to establish conservation programs that will help maintain genetic diversity in the animal population. Much of Dr. Sponenberg’s work has been accomplished through the American Livestock Breed Conservancy, for which he is the technical programs director. The aim of the ALBC is supporting rare breeds so the genetic diversity is not lost, leaving the world with a few highly specialized breeds selected for maximum output in food production. By studying breeds that evolved in response to environmental and geographic demands (landrace breeds), they expect to be able to meet unforeseen future challenges that affect livestock. The largest herd of the remaining Grady Woods line is owned by the Aycock family of Vancleave, Mississippi. As with the Grady Woods home place, their Three T Ranch (for Ted, Todd and Tim) is just a short distance from the Gulf of Mexico. The father, Ted Aycock, started the ranch
when the boys were five or six years old. He bought 80 acres and a few grade cattle right after he got out of pharmacy school. Some friends who were ropers talked about the price of roping steers, so he neck 256 decided to get a Luke’s Red Longhorn bull and raise ropers. Then he started reading the Texas Longhorn Journal and found out more about the industry. “I had an opportunity to buy a set of cows that had come from East Texas and a man named Grady Woods. A Mr. Seals bought them from Grady and hauled them to Poplarville, Mississippi.” In partnership with Walter Forrest, Ted bought the small herd of Longhorns, all of which had Grady Woods’ brand -- the Rocking H. Ted Aycock became a TLBAA member in 1979 (TLBAA number 546). Not really knowing what he had, in 1981, he took three pairs to a registered sale in Nacogdoches, Texas. The small-framed cows with the corkscrew twist horns were not of any major bloodline; their pedigrees traced back to “Unknown Texas Longhorn” on their certificates, and Ted was uneasy about how they would be received. To his surprise, all three pair sold for more than $2,000, which was well above the sale average. After talking to the late Jack Phillips and several other ranchers, he began to realize the importance of the Grady Woods bloodline. Phillips told Ted, “These cattle look more like the cattle I saw as a kid than any I have seen in a long, long time.” Phillips also bought a bull from the Aycocks. DeWitt Meshell attended the Nacogdoches sale and called Ted Aycock and Walter Forrest the next week and asked if they had any more of those cattle to sell. They responded by sending DeWitt pictures of cattle they had to offer. Aycock has been quoted, “He immediately offered $3,000 each and bought all of them for himself and later leased Luke’s Redneck. His interest and that of several other breeders we talked with started a chain of events that bought the history and traditions of these Woods cattle to the surface.” “I saw the way the industry was going in creating bigger cows, longer horns, flat horns – they were doing things that didn’t seem to fit the breed. I realized somebody needed to step back – at a cost – and maintain a herd of cattle that depicted what they were years and years ago. And that’s what we’ve done here.” “We did keep a part-Butler bull on the herd two years because I didn’t have a bull I wanted to put on the herd at that time. Todd and Tim wanted to keep several of the heifers to breed back to our Woods bull and show the industry Woods genetics. We’ve tried to maintain a genetically pure Longhorn herd, and I have done so for roughly 25 years.” “We have followed Dr. Sponenberg’s recommendations fairly close the past few years. We have used different bulls out of our herd and kept heifers sired by each of the bulls. That, I think, is W G Mocha
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what Dr. Sponenberg recommended that we do. We didn’t follow the plan of action exactly as he said, but we have followed it 3-T Pa pretty close.” tches G W After talking to Jack Phillips that time at the Nacogdoches sale, Ted began to realize he had something unique; something that nobody else had. He started doing research to verify some things to the best of his ability. “These cattle looked different from most of the others,” he said. “They’ve got a little bit different characteristics – small frames, small muzzle, clean underline, long switch, twisted horns. The bulls’ horns are what we call functional. A true Longhorn bull’s horns go out and up so he can defend his herd and fight off predators and other bulls. Traditionally, they were bred up in the wild and the best and strongest survived.” A cornerstone of the 3-T Ranch program is a bull called Luke’s Redneck. The AI Certified bull came into the Aycocks’ ownership as a calf in the original herd purchase. Although he has been dead 17 years, his semen is selectively used to perpetuate and concentrate the historic Grady Woods bloodline. Several of his sons have also been used as herd sires. “It’s been 25 or 30 years, but we’ve stayed the course and I think we’ve got a genetically pure herd of Texas Longhorn cattle. We’ve got 30 to 35 mother cows, some steers and three or four bulls. One of the bulls is loaned out, and we may loan a couple more. We don’t have a huge herd, and we don’t have the ground to maintain a large herd. We’ve done the best we could to hold on to these cattle, to keep them as pure to the Longhorn characteristics as we could…and I think we’ve done it!” “Danny Guffey (Easy G Ranch) bought some Woods cows and leased a bull; we also partnered with Carl Brantley from Wilkesboro, North Carolina on eight heifers; he bred them to a different bull and he’s going to breed back with semen we collected from Luke’s Redneck. A few other people bought cattle from us and have this bloodline, but they put different bulls on them…they haven’t kept the bloodline pure. We’ve struggled along trying to maintain a genetically pure herd, and we have been pretty much on our own except for Carl.” Tim Aycock mentioned a telling insight on the value of heritage genetics. The US Department of Agriculture maintains the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, one of the largest and highest quality genebanks in the world. It preserves more than 500,000 samples of genetic materials of crops, livestock and agriculturally important microbes. This collection represents a special heritage for the future and an important piece of global food security. A representative contacted Tim regarding the purchase of embryos and DNA samples of the Woods cattle. They also sold a hundred straws of semen to the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. A Texas Longhorn herd whose past history can be traced to post-Civil War Texas; a herd whose genetic package is uniquely rich in foundational bloodlines; a herd whose heritage is protected in a virtual Fort Knox of genetic resources is certainly a herd whose owners deserve a special applause for their dedication to preservation. Todd and Tim grew up with these cattle and intend to maintain the program their father started. As stated by Todd, “We are raising the kind of cattle your grandfather would recognize.” And as Ted said, “…we’ve stayed the course.”
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WEST COAST TEXAS LONGHORN SALE 2011 June 25, 2011 AurorA, oregon Auctioneer: Bill le’An, HumAnsville, missouri Pedigree reAder: Justin romBeck, Home, kAnsAs
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he 2011 West Coast Texas Longhorn Sale was held on June 25, 2011 at Lone Star Ranch in Aurora, Oregon. The Friday night social was a lot of fun with delicious food, excellent wine, great entertainment and camaraderie enjoyed by all. The sale on Saturday turned out to be the best Longhorn auction ever West of the Rocky Mountains! The Northwest Longhorn Association would like to thank all those who made the 2011 West Coast Texas Longhorn Sale a success!
Highlights Average Top 5 lots: $4,100 Average Top 10 lots: $3,140 Average 37 lots sold: $1,632 (3 Scratches, 3 PO’s, 2 Semen Lots, 1 Embryo Lot) VOLUME BUYERS: Kathy Kittler, Carlisle, AR David & Irene Sexton, Salem, OR Panther Creek Ranch, Marlin, TX Sale report and pictures submitted by Daniel Fey
✯✯✯✯✯✯✯✯✯✯ HIGH SELLING LOT:
$7,200
Daniel Fey, Yamhill, OR; Alexandra Dees, Harper, OR
Annie Hutchinson & Dayton Preble, Beavercreek, OR
Jeremy & Charissa McCullock, Wallowa, OR
Julie & Justin Hansen, Paskenta, CA; Justin Rombeck, Home, KS
Mark & Renee Scott, Hines, OR
Mike & Tracie Winger, Stayton, OR
Susie & John Hever, Johnson City, TX
Cathy and Warren Dorathy, Sanger, CA; Alexandra Dees, Harper, OR
BL Mazue’s Fancy
Consignor: Justin & Julie Hansen, Paskenta, CA Buyer: Kathy Kittler, Carlisle, AR
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OTHER HIGH SELLING LOTS: $3,600 – FIELD OF FORGET
Consignor: Daniel & Angelina Fey, Yamhill, OR. Buyer: Joe & Lorinda Valentine, Marlin, TX.
$3,400
– 026 HCC QUANAH Consignor: Alexandra Dees, Harper, OR. Buyer: Searle Ranch, Monument, CO.
$3,200
– HUNTS SISTERS RESPECT Consignor: Justin & Julie Hansen, Paskenta, CA. Buyer: Doug & Dianne Hunt, St. George, UT.
$3,100
– JUST RESPECT 22/03 Consignor: Justin & Julie Hansen, Paskenta, CA Buyer: Joe & Lorinda Valentine, Marlin, TX.
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Dear TLBT Members,
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer and trying to keep cool at the same time! Your TLBT Officers and Directors have been hard at work coming up with ideas for the youth. We all just returned from Leadership Camp which was held in Fort Worth, Texas this year. We toured the Historic Stockyards, and visited the TLBAA Office. Our theme for the 2011-2012 Show Season is “Horns, Hides and Great Big Strides.” This year, we will be celebrating the anniversary of the 25th World Show, which is certainly a “Big Stride.” During the last few years, we’ve chosen a service project to help. This year we will be helping Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, Texas. The hospital is for children with pediatric orthopedic conditions and certain related neurological disorders. They opened their doors to children in 1921 and are run completely on donations. Your officers and directors thought this would be a great service project because it also goes with the “Great Big Strides” part of our theme. We hope to possibly invite some of the patients to our 2012 TLBT World Show. Typically the State Fair of Texas and Horn Showcase have been held on the same weekend and people had to choose which event they would be attending. This year, that is not the case, so make plans to attend both events if you can. The Horn Showcase committee has invited the youth to get involved. We will be having a fundraiser called “Pen Pals.” If you are interested in volunteering to help feed and water animals and do some cleaning of pens, please contact Hannah Faske at hannahfaske@gmail.com. She will need to know when you can work and what size t-shirt you need. We hope to have a good turnout for this event. TLBT Office: Senior Director I look forward to seeing each of you at upcoming shows and sales. If 17 years old Age: you have any ideas or opinions, please do not hesitate to talk to one of your officers or directors. We hope to make this a year a great year for all! School: Home School Number of Years in the TLBT: This is my fourth year to be a See You on the Trail, member of the TLBT.
TLBT OFFICER SPOTLIGHT
Julia Faske
When and how did you start raising and showing Texas Longhorns? I am adopted from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2008. When I came home, my family was already showing Texas Longhorns. After watching them show, I wanted to show also.
Sarah Faske TLBT President
What are some important things you have learned from showing and raising Longhorns? I have learned to be more respectful to my parents and others. I have become more responsible through working with and caring for my calves. I am also learning about leadership responsibilities. I believe that participating in the TLBT has helped me to become a better person. What would you tell someone just getting started in raising Texas Longhorns? I would tell them it is a lot of fun, and you can learn from it too. You can make many friends as well.
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What is your favorite part of raising and showing Texas Longhorns? My favorite part of raising and showing Longhorns is showmanship. I like showmanship best because you can’t control what your animal looks like or what that judge’s opinion is, but you can always present yourself and your calf to the best of your ability. I also like meeting new friends and spending time with my Longhorn family. Texas Longhorn Trails
From the Chairman of the Board My family and I attended the Autobahn Super Stakes Youth Show on August 3rd through August 7th. I want to thank John and Diann Chase for everything they do for our youth. This year alone, they will give out over $280,000 in scholarship money to our youth members. Larry Barker kept our youth busy all week long. Great show and thank you again. Our show season started in June with our California Affiliate and will take us all the way to the World Show in June of 2012. If you haven't watched a Texas Longhorn show, please try to attend one. I have attended many shows in the past, but this past weekend, Cindy and I saw kids from the ITLA and TLBAA associations working together in the team penning event. The same kids competed in the show ring together during the judging contest and helped each other with their speeches. Let’s put personal agendas aside, stop living in the past and work together to make our Longhorn industry even better. Many ideas and opinions are being expressed, and all are important. Please submit these to either myself or your director. Your ideas, opinions and suggestions matter. Our Horn Showcase is coming up quicker than you may think. It is the weekend of October 13-16. We, as always, need your help to continue to make this a great event. We appreciate everyone who consigned to the sale, making it over 100 lots. Now is the time to join in as sponsors, exhibitors and spectators. The success of the event is a result of member participation. Come to Cowtown for fun, fellowship and to see some impressive animals. As always, I want to hear your concerns. Thank you,
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Coming up for nominations soon will be all Division C directors, consisting of two (2) At-Large positions and Regions 13-18. Watch for your nomination form being mailed 90 days prior to our Annual Membership Meeting which will be held in Fort Worth, Texas on January 13, 2012. According to the TLBAA By-Laws, Section 2—D: At least ninety (90) days prior to the Annual Membership Meeting, the TLBAA Office shall mail to the Active and Lifetime Members a request for nomination of individual or individuals for Director in the member’s representational region. Such member nominations shall be received in the Association office no later than sixty (60) days prior to the Annual Meeting. In order that any member nominee be eligible to be placed on the election ballot, he must receive write-in nominations from five (5) members who are Active or Lifetime Members. Should there be no members nominated by the membership for a particular Region, or should a nominee decline to have his name placed on the ballot, the Board of Directors will appoint an Active or Lifetime Member in good standing domiciled within the division to fill the vacant position at the same meeting as the election of TLBAA officers. September 2011
No less than forty-five (45) days prior to the annual meeting of the membership, the TLBAA Office or designated CPA firm shall mail official printed ballots to each qualified Active and Lifetime Member in good standing of that region or division. This ballot shall contain the names of the candidates, if any, who were properly nominated by members. All written ballots must be returned to the CPA with a postmark not less than twentyone (21) days prior to the Annual Meeting in order to be validated and counted. All ballots received will be validated and counted by an independent CPA firm or other organization experienced in voting tabulation as designated by the Executive Committee. The nominees receiving the most valid votes shall be elected. All newly elected Directors shall be installed at the Annual Membership Meeting. A tie vote will be broken by the Chairman of the Board drawing one of the names by lot. If a nominee wants a recount of the ballots in their election race, they will have to submit a formal request for a recount to the Board of Directors but not more than sixty (60) days after election results have been announced at the annual meeting. The contester or their representative would then physically go to the CPA firm and watch this recount at his/her costs.
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Division A Regions 1-6 Division B Regions 7 - 12
Active and Lifetime members in good standing, domiciled within a representational division or region may nominate an Active or Lifetime member in good standing, also domiciled therein for election to the Board of Directors. Only those Active or Lifetime Members in good standing, domiciled within the division or region, may vote for the nominees from that division or region. Elections are held annually by division, on rotating basis as selected by the Board of Directors.
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Creativity seems to come naturally to Jerry McAdams, whether it is expressed in images he paints with a brush on canvas or images he generates with words in your mind. He was trained to do the latter and has a degree in journalism from Texas Christian University to prove it. The painting expertise is native talent, honed and polished by intense interest and dedicated practice. The native Texan was born in Fort Worth, went to high school in nearby Burleson, completed college in 1973 at TCU and is now a civic presence in Hico, Texas. He played high school football, ran track in college, then combined his interest in sports with his journalism degree to land his first job after college as a sports writer for a division of the Dallas Morning News. After about a year on the sports beat, he applied for a job with the Quarter Racing Record, a Fort Worth-based magazine that specialized in coverage of the people and horses involved in the racetrack competition of the American Quarter Horse. “I grew up with horses and cows with my dad all those years,” he explained. “That was a good combination with some journalism training. I went to work with the horse magazine and had a lot of fun times. Ben Hudson and I worked together at the Quarter Racing Record until 1975, when we left and started a magazine of our own.” The magazine they started, Track Magazine, is still a successful entry in the publishing industry, which has a high rate of attrition. Going strong after 37 years, it is the nation’s oldest and largest independently-owned publication serving the Running Quarter Horse business. The printed monthly edition is now supplemented with an available online digital edition. “I bowed out of it in about 1997, something like that,” said Jerry, “to stay in Hico.” During his years at the magazine, Jerry won numerous writing, photography and advertising art awards, including a national ADDY Award from the American Advertising Federation. Although art has been a lifelong interest, McAdams took only one art class at TCU. “I kind of doodled around with drawing and a little bit of painting in high school; sitting in class doodling and drawing instead of paying attention a lot of times. But I always liked doing it. After I got out of college, I wound up in the magazine business and used a lot of art in page design, graphics and photography. I did lots of photography when I was covering sports in school; then in the magazine business I did lots of livestock photography. I dabbled with painting a little bit for a few years there in the ‘70s, and sold a few paintings in a gallery in Ruidoso. That was the first time I got any income from it.” His paintings have also graced the covers of nationally distributed magazines such as The Cattleman, America’s Cutter and The Gulf Coast Cattleman. The National Cutting Horse Association has used them on posters and publications, and they have been cover art for sale catalogs of the Ruidoso Horse Sale and Western Bloodstock Sale. Even after selling some paintings in the 1970’s through the Ruidoso gallery, Jerry didn’t think of his art as a way to make a living. “I started doing a little bit more in the late ‘80s,” he said. “I did a few paintings just for my own amusement – I did a few cow paintings that a friend of mine saw at my house and told me I ought to take them over to the cutting horse show there in Fort Worth. He said those people liked anything with a cow in it, so I took a few over there in 1996 and sold them. Then I took a few more the next year and sold those. It kept growing and became a fairly decent supplement to my income, and I’ve been doing it ever since.” The National Cutting Horse Association competitions at the Will Rogers Complex in Fort Worth attracts cutting enthusiasts nation-
wide and internationally and the McAdams paintings have found a receptive market at the trade show for sixteen years. “I usually sold enough through the cutting horse show that I didn’t have much inventory left. I sold regularly to people from Australia, Venezuela and Canada who became repeat customers and still contact me from time to time. We’ve had buyers from California to Florida and across the Midwest – we send a lot of stuff to nearly every state.” “Here in the last several years, I’ve got more and more inquiries about Longhorn paintings, so I would do one or two Longhorns a year, and they always seemed to sell pretty well. I started doing more because they have a universal appeal whether people are in the cattle business or not.” The McAdams family owns a Longhorn – “…kind of by accident,” Jerry said. “Some friends of ours, I guess it has been at least 13 years ago, gave us an orphan calf. They were moving and didn’t have a place to take this little Longhorn orphan calf, so we took him and raised him and cut him; kept him as a lawn ornament more than anything. He is huge now, has a big spread of horns and I have used him as a model in a lot of paintings.” “That’s how sensible the cattle operation is at our place. Most of our cows are picked for color and variety instead of production, but I make more painting them than I do breeding them. But the only Longhorn we’ve got is this old steer – he is a great big white, speckled steer with a big wide spread of horns. He is real picturesque.” Jerry’s wife, Fran, creates costume jewelry, and her web site says they have dogs, cats, horses, cattle, a donkey and guineas. “I’m afraid so,” laughed Jerry. “I try to have some productive livestock, but Fran, being a city girl, wanted at least one of every species and we wound up with a few oddities around the place, including the donkey.” Fran is a retired Southwest Airlines flight attendant and currently an elementary school teacher. Their son, Bob, is fifteen years old. “We had a son late in life,” said Jerry, “and wanted him to grow up in a small town, so we moved down here to Hico, which is far enough away from the Metroplex to stay small for a while and found something we could do without having to leave town much. I’m around here all the time, spend a lot of extra hours painting and taking care of our ranch south of town here, where we live.” The first year or two after the move to Hico, Jerry commuted to Fort Worth to take care of his duties at TRACK Magazine. “This weekly newspaper came up for sale after we had been here a little while,” he said. “I got to looking at it and I thought that’s one of the few things I have any actual training on how to do, so we wound up buying it.” Under Jerry's ownership the little weekly newspaper has won more than 60 awards from the West Texas Press Association and Texas Press Association, and in their division this year Jerry won
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his third Texas Press Association award as columnist of the year. “Fran had a teaching degree also, and didn’t want to travel any more, and I didn’t want to travel, so we kind of hunkered down here in Hico. She got a job teaching school and has been doing that for about a dozen years now. I fiddle with the newspaper every week and paint with what free time I have left. And we watch our son grow up in a small town, which was our goal here. It has been real worth it.” McAdams is an editor and publisher three days a week, and there are activities throughout the week where he goes “because I want to anyway…school activities, ball games …with a camera, of course, because that’s what people in a small town want to see in a newspaper.” He is a school board member and works with the local booster club. “Having a newspaper gives me an excuse to attend something or a requirement to attend something, so just about everything that’s held, I wind up being there.” Jerry has a gallery arrangement with Blue Star Trading in downtown Hico. “It’s a great big western furnishings store in a refurbished building in the historic old downtown part of Hico – a really nice upscale place,” said Jerry. “They’ve got a gallery there and they made me their resident artist a few years ago. It’s a lot easier to keep all my pieces over there than to sit somewhere else and man a separate gallery of my own seven days a week. I’m kind of their exclusive artist and they’re my exclusive outlet down here. It has worked out real well.” Visitors to Coopers Barbecue in the Historic Stockyards Area of Fort Worth may also be able to see McAdam’s paintings. “Barry Cooper bought several of my paintings, and I made an arrangement to keep some others on display in their VIP party room. There are six or eight of them there.” With a photographer’s eye for composition, McAdams bold, large scale acrylic paintings are sometimes whimsical and always colorful, with dramatic cropping and perspective. The subject matter is essentially contemporary ranch country, horses and cattle presented in his unique style. In addition to his gallery inventory, McAdams also does commissioned paintings using the client’s own livestock and ranch scenes. Eight or nine years ago Jerry and Fran bought 223 acres about ten miles south of Hico. Before they started construction of their ranch home, they built a metal building and finished the interior out like an apartment. They lived in it while they built the main house; the metal building is now the artist’s studio. “There’s a big plateau out there; it wasn’t very accessible, but we spent the impractical money to build a road and a building site on top of it so we could have a great view. We can see Hamilton about 20 miles away in one direction and Hico the other direction about ten miles and no neighbors in sight. It’s a real peaceful place.” “Longhorns are getting more popular around here. In the last ten years or so around Hico I’ve noticed that people who had stocker cows and beef cows have gradually worked some Longhorns into their pastures, too. There are more and more people doing that. I didn’t realize there was such a resurgence in them. There are Longhorn ranches north of here and south of here and just about every direction I travel now days.” While McAdams may take his art seriously, the jovial artist doesn’t seem to take himself very seriously, as evident in his self-deprecating humor. This carries over to his website, Jerry McAdams Horse and Cow Art Gallery, accessible through jerrymcadamsart.com. Because of the growing interest specifically in paintings that include Texas Longhorns, he has added another site. McAdams Longhorn Art may be found, strangely enough, at mcadamslonghornart.com.
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Texas Longhorn Trails
October 13-16, 2011 • Fort Worth, TX A self-funding event by the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America For consignment & sponsorship check out CAN’T MAKE IT TO FORT WORTH??
BRED & OWNED DIVISION
You can still be a 2011 Horn Showcase Winner!! TLBAA is offering satellite measuring across the nation. Check out www.tlbaa.org or contact the TLBAA today for more info. All exhibitors must be members of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America. All animals must be registered with the TLBAA. A copy of the animal’s registration certificate and entry fee of $100 for each category entered must accompany entry form for each animal. A photograph must be included with each entry to be entered. A photograph can be e-mailed to kim@tlbaa.org
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For a $50 entry fee, if you are the breeder and owner of an entry, you may enter this additional category. One winner per age class.
DIVISIONS Category:
totaL HorN, tIP to tIP & CoMPoSIte HorN Bull & Female Divisions
Division I: Division II: Division III: Division IV: Division V: Division VI: Division VII:
oct. 31, 2010 - Nov. 1, 2009 oct. 31, 2009 - Nov. 1, 2008 oct. 31, 2008 - Nov. 1, 2007 oct. 31, 2007 - Nov. 1, 2006 oct. 31, 2006 - Nov. 1, 2004 oct. 31, 2004 - Nov. 1, 2001 Nov. 30, 2001 & before Steer Division
Division VIII
Born 2005 & before
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ENTRY DEADLINE: SEPT. 8, 2011 IN OFFICE
✔ NO LATE ENTRIES ✔ NO SUBSTITUTIONS ✔ SCRATCHES WILL
ENTRY FORM Exhibitor’s Name__________________________________________________
NOT BE REFUNDED
Exhibitor’s TLBAA# _____________ Animal’s TLBAA # _________________
✔(No HEALTH PAPERS Exceptions) ✔ NO TRICH TEST ON
Animal’s Name __________________________________________________
EXHIBITION BULLS
Date of Birth ________ Division as specified above _____________________ $100 PER CATEGORY ENTRY CATEGORIES: TOTAL HORN TIP–TO–TIP COMPOSITE HORN Eligibility for composite horn category requires entry in tip-to-tip and total horn categories
FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEXAS LONGHORN BREEDERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA P.O. Box 4430 • Fort Worth, TX 76164
Kim Barfield – 817/625-6241 September 2011
$50 BRED & OWNED DIVISION FORM OF PAYMENT: CASH CHECK Credit Card # ___________________________ VISA
MASTERCARD DISCOVER
CREDIT CARD
Exp. Date _________ CID # _______
SATELLITE LOCATION__________________________________________
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TRAIL BOSS- $25,000 ★ 12 full pages within the sponsorship pages in the Trails magazine beginning September 2011 ★ 1 Texas Longhorn Trails cover (excludes July 2012, August 2012 & December 2012) ★ 2 Horn Showcase Sale Consignments ★ 6 Horn Showcase Entries ★ 2 page Ranch Feature in Texas Longhorn Trails ★ Full page ad in Horn Showcase program book ★ Full page ad in Horn Showcase Catalog
RAWHIDER- $250
DRAG RIDER - $75
MOSSY HORN- $4,500 ★ 4 full page or 12 - 1/3 color ads within the sponsorship pages in the Trails magazine beginning September 2011 ★ A full page ad in Showcase program ★ 3 hanging banners at the Showcase ★ Ranch exhibit space at the Showcase ★ Special recognition at all events ★ Special HS logo to run on all ads if desired ★ Name listed on all HS literature: Trails, press releases, etc.
LEAD STEER- $3,000 ★ 2 Full page or 6 – 1/3 color ads within the sponsorship pages in the Trails magazine beginning September 2011 ★ 100 Overruns of one of the full-page ads to use as a marketing resource ★ A 1/2 page ad in Showcase program ★ 2 hanging banners at the Showcase ★ Special recognition at all events ★ Special HS logo to run on all ads if desired ★ Name listed on all HS literature: Trails, press releases, etc.
TEXAS TWISTER- $1,000 ★ A 1/3 pg color ad within the sponsorship pages in the Trails magazine beginning September 2011 ★ A 1/3 page ad in the Showcase Program ★ A Hanging Banner at Showcase ★ Special recognition at all events ★ Name listed on all HS literature: Trails, press releases, etc.
★ A breeders guide ad size ad in the Showcase Program ★ Special recognition at all events
Mossy Horn Sponsors: Bernard Lankford, Weatherford, TX • Sand Hills Ranch, Mansfield, LA Triple R Ranch, San Angelo, TX • Diamond D Ranch, Red Oak, TX Ron & Barbara Marquess, Ben Wheeler, TX
Texas Twister Sponsors: Ty Wehring, Yorktown, TX • Terri & Sherri Adcock, Lamesa, TX Clinard Longhorn Partnership, Rockdale, TX Joel & Shirley Lemley, Blackwell, TX • Doug & Sandy Stotts, Houston, TX Mike Crawford/Pam Watkins, Rockwall, TX • Kathy Kittler, Carlisle, AR Mike & Kim MacLeod, Palo Pinto, TX
Brush Popper Sponsors: Steve & Rene Azinger, Houston, TX • Ron & Donna Garison, Doyline, LA T.M. & Jean Smith, Boyd, TX • Texas Longhorn Breeders of the Gulf Coast Association, Houston, TX
Rawhider Sponsors: East Texas Longhorn Association, Van, TX • Texas S Longhorns, Spring, TX Vance & Cammie Farner, Niotaze, KS • Ron Walker, Redcliff, Albert, Canada Dr. Lee & Linda Ragains, Sallisaw, OK • Kris Peterek, Weimer, TX
BRUSH POPPER- $500 ★ A 1/6 page color ad page in the Trails magazine beginning September 2011 ★ A 1/4 page ad in the Showcase Program ★ Space for a banner ★ Special recognition at all events
Drag Rider+ Sponsors: Ron & Kevin Asbill, Tyler, TX • Gene & Lana Hightower, Van, TX B&N Farms, Shreveport, LA
Drag Rider Sponsors: Jody Shaw, Prospect, TN • K&T Longhorns, Rusk, TX
YES! I WANT TO SPONSOR THE 2011 TLBAA HORN SHOWCASE! NAME: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________TLBAA# ____________________________ ADDRESS: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY ____________________________________________________________STATE __________ZIP __________________PHONE ________________________________________
SPONSORSHIP LEVEL: ❑ TRAIL BOSS $25,000
❑ MOSSY HORN $4,500 ❑ LEAD STEER $3,000
❑ TEXAS TWISTER $1,000 ❑ BRUSH POPPER $500 ❑ RAWHIDER $250 ❑ DRAG RIDER $75 FORM OF PAYMENT: ❑ CASH ❑ CHECK Mail or Fax Form to: Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America P.O. Box 4430 • Fort Worth, TX 76164 Fax: (817) 625-1388 • Phone: (817) 625-6241
❑ CREDIT CARD# ____________________________________________________________________________ CARD TYPE: VISA MASTERCARD DISCOVER EXP. DATE:_______________ CID# ____________ NAME ON CARD: ______________________________________________________________________________
For more information on these packages, contact Kim Barfield at (817) 625-6241.
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
★ A Sale Pen color ad within sponsorship pages in the Trails magazine beginning September 2011 ★ A business card size ad in the Showcase Program ★ Special recognition at all events
October 1, 2011 CONTACT: Joe Sedlacek (785) 747-2204 Location: Lazy J Longhorns, Greenleaf, KS October 1, 2011 CONTACT: Chad Smith cg.smith@ndsu.edu • (701) 590-9073 Location: Gordon Howie Ranch, Rapid City, SD October 7, 2011 CONTACT: Gail Moore (559) 779-1455 • (559) 583-8115 Location: CATL Satellite Measuring Hanford, CA October 8, 2011 CONTACT: Mark Stuck bcrstuck@hotmail.com (540) 272-2564 • (540) 752-6831 Location: Nel-Tam Longhorns, Richland, PA
October 8, 2011 CONTACT: Alexandra Dees (541) 358-8787 Location: CR Longhorns, Harper, OR October 8, 2011 CONTACT: Terry King (850) 956-4154 Location: Westville, FL October 8, 2011 CONTACT: Felix Serna or Della Serna fserna@elcoyote.com dserna@elcoyote.com (361) 522-0807 • (361) 296-4275 Location: El Coyote Ranch, Kingsville, TX October 8, 2011 - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM CONTACT: Doug Stotts (713) 598-2220 • Please RSVP Location: Rex Mosser/Doug Stotts, Midway, TX
October 8, 2011 CONTACT: Doug Hunt (435) 680-4822 • (435) 275-2112 Kent Bladen (801) 597-1774 Location: Saint George, UT October 8, 2011 CONTACT: Dick Lowe (517) 688-3030 ralowe642@hotmail.com Tom Smith (616) 897-6235 widespreadranch@iserv.net Location: Great Lakes Texas Longhorn Association Satellite Measuring, Horton, MI October 9, 2011 CONTACT: Scott Simmons (618) 729-2004 ssimmons@copeplastics.com Location: Medora, IL
SATELLITE MEASURINGS
TWISTY HORN CONTEST Exhibitor’s Name________________________________________________________________________________ Exhibitor’s TLBAA# ____________________ Animal’s TLBAA # ________________________ Animal’s Name ________________________________________________________________________________ Date of Birth ______________________ $100 PER CATEGORY ENTRY FORM OF PAYMENT: CATEGORIES: FEMALES (4-7 Years • 8-10 Years • 11+ Years)
CASH CHECK CREDIT CARD STEERS (Will break classes according to number of entries)
Credit Card # _________________________________________________ VISA
MASTERCARD
DISCOVER
Exp. Date _____________ CID # __________
Mail Entries to: TLBAA, P.O. Box 4430 • Fort Worth, TX 76164 • Kim Barfield (817) 625-6241 or kim@tlbaa.org
NO TROPHIES - PREMIUMS AWARDED ON WINNER OF CLASS • Judges to be determined.
Entry Deadline: September 8, 2011 Females will be evaluated on color, conformation, horn & breeding abilities. Steers will be evaluated on color, conformation, horn & wow factor. September 2011
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Sale Health Certification The following information is required for each consigned animal at the 2011 Horn Showcase Sale and must be presented with each animal upon arrival: A. Certificate of Veterinary Inspection issued within the past thirty (30) days. B. Negative brucellosis test within the past thirty (30) days for all cattle. Exemption: 1. Cattle from a certified brucellosis-free herd with a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection stating the certified free herd number and the herd anniversary test date. C. Negative tuberculosis (TB) test within the past sixty (60) days for all cattle. Exemptions: 1. Cattle from tuberculosis “Free� states. 2.Cattle from a tuberculosis-free-herd with the accreditation number and the herd anniversary test date listed on the Certificate of Veterinary Inspection. 3. Suckling calves from a negative dam.
HORN SHOWCASE MEASURING CATTLE Certificate of Veterinary Inspection issued within the past thirty (30) days.
The health certificate must note all palpation/ultra sound results at the time of sale. TWISTY HORN CONTESTANTS MUST HAVE THE SAME RESULTS ON HEALTH PAPERS.
Please send an acknowledgement to: Name ________________________________________ Address ______________________________________ City ____________________ State _____ Zip _______ My Name _____________________________________ Address ______________________________________ City ____________________ State _____ Zip _______
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Enclosed is my gift of ___ $25 ___$50 ___$100 __$_____
___ In memory of: ______________________________ ___ In honor of: ________________________________ Name of person to be remembered. Please print. Please mail form and donation to the Texas Longhorn Breeders of America Foundation, P.O. Box 4430, Ft. Worth, TX 76164. Texas Longhorn Trails
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Dr. Don Spiers (University of Missouri) has been doing research on heat stress in cattle for many years. One of his projects has been to use transmitters that tell you the animal’s temperature. “We are now using some of these devices that will transmit about 300 feet. The transmitter is swallowed by the animal and lodges in the reticulum. It transmits the temperature as often as you want, to an antenna. We had a study last summer where we had 3 different breeds of cattle in a pasture--and used an antenna to pick up the signals wherever the cattle went,” he says. “You don’t have to put a transmitter in every animal. A person could use sentinel animals that give you an idea of the heat level. We did one study, looking at what the determining factors might be for predicting how hot an animal will get in the summer. We found that knowing the minimum core temperature for that animal (which occurs at about 7 a.m.) is important for determining how hot it will get during the day, since heat is cumulative,” says Spiers. Individual animals tend to have different levels of heat retention. “We followed groups of animals and found that they seem to always have their own ranking. Animals that had low minimum temperatures always have low maximum temperatures,” he explains. This ranking is important in determining how that animal will respond to heat. “Another thing that determines how high their body temperature will go during the day is how fast the air temperature rises in the morning from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. If it will be a really hot day, the temperature increase during those 2 hours shows how hot it’s going to get.” If you know the minimum core temperature of the cattle and observe the temperature change from 6 to 8 a.m. you can be alerted to risk for heat stress. Monitoring respiration rate is also helpful. Even if you can’t measure body temperature of the animal, you can measure respiration rate. Anything below 40 breaths per minute is indicative of healthy, safe temperature. “When the respiration rate gets up to 80 breaths per minute this is a sign of heat stress. When it gets up to 120 it’s serious, and by the time the animals get up to 160 breaths per minute and their tongues are sticking out and they’re drooling, they have a real problem,” he says. If you are moving cattle or working them on a hot day and some individuals start panting rapidly, with mouths open and drooling, it’s time to halt and let them rest. Australian researchers developed a panting score index. A booklet called Heat Load in Feedlot Cattle has been produced by the Meat and Livestock Association of Australia and discusses the panting score index. Panting scores go from 0 to 5 and involve a combination of counting respiration rate, and observations about what the cattle are doing. At 0 there is no panting and the breathing rate is below 40. Score 1 denotes faster respiration (40 to 70 breaths per minute) but the mouth is closed and there is no drooling. You don’t have to count for a full minute to check respiration rate; you can count for 15 seconds and multiply by 4, or for 30 seconds and double it. When animals get up to score 2 they are breathing rapidly (70 to 120 breaths per minute), they have a little drool, but the mouth is still closed. At score 3 there is drooling, open mouth panting (120 to 160 breaths per minute), the neck is extended and the head is usually held upward. At panting score 4 the tongue is fully extended out of the mouth for long periods, with excessive drooling, and the head is still extended upward, with breaths more than 160 per minute. You can’t even count the respiration rate when it’s this rapid. “The critical level is score 4.5 because by then the head is
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held low and the animal may actually stop drooling because it’s so dehydrated. At this point, risk of death is high. When they start going into heat stroke they stop sweating because they are dehydrated and everything is shutting down,” explains Spiers. “Some of the other things we’ve looked at include sweating rates. The shoulder area has the highest amount of sweating. The rump and lower legs have less. If you have access to fans, aim them at the shoulder of the animal,” says Spiers. “We found that sweating rate went up initially, over the first few days of extreme heat, and then it came down. Internal body temperatures were still high, but the cattle sweated less. It appears to be more important to conserve water (minimize fluid loss, to prevent dehydration) than to maintain a constant body temperature,” he says. If an animal becomes too dehydrated, it will die. Cattle always need adequate water. Spiers’ group did a study, looking at dehydration. “The major indicator of dehydration is decrease in feed intake. The cattle stop eating.” When they can’t mix enough fluid with their feed, they can’t eat. “Feed intake plummets when they didn’t have access to water,” says Spiers. “We also saw that when they were dehydrated their sweat rates went down. They didn’t have enough moisture to sweat.” Tammy Brown-Brandl at USMARC (Clay Center, Nebraska) came up with a model to determine feedlot cattle susceptibility to heat stress, looking at certain characteristics of the animal. Some of these criteria can also be applied to cattle out on pasture. She says there are 3 components to heat stress: the existing environmental conditions (which include temperature and humidity), the management practices of the producer (whether cattle have access to water, shade, etc.) and the susceptibility of the individual animal. She listed 11 characteristics and put them into a computer model. First is color. A dark animal will be hotter than a light colored one. Second is sex. Heifers are more susceptible to heat than steers, but this difference is very small. Third is species; Bos indicus are more heat tolerant than Bos taurus. Fourth is temperament. An excitable animal will overheat more quickly than a calm one. Fifth is hair thickness. The thinly haired animals don’t get as hot as those with medium to thick hair-coat; hair insulates the body and slows down heat dissipation. Sixth is previous exposure to heat—whether the animal is acclimated. Seventh is age; an adult animal has more body mass and more difficulty dealing with heat. Eighth is body condition score. Fat cattle have the most insulation and the most problem with heat. Fat calves may suffer heat stress (as when cattle are moved on a hot day) more quickly than their thinner mothers. Ninth is previous pneumonia. An animal that’s had pneumonia may have lung damage and respiratory insufficiency—less than optimum air exchange and cooling via respiration. Tenth is whether the animals had other health issues previously. Eleventh is current health of the animal. These 11 categories can be put into a computer model to come up with a prediction of how the animal will deal with heat stress. This would allow a cattleman to put at-risk individuals in a different environment where they can be watched, or a place where fans or water could be used to cool them if needed. “Brown-Brandl ranks these 11 categories as to which ones are more important. Whether the animal is male or female is not as important as species, or whether they’ve had pneumonia,” says Spiers. Bos indicus (such as Brahman cattle) are always more heat tolerant than Bos taurus, and cattle with any kind of lung damage cannot breathe as easily to help dissipate heat.
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Heart Of Virginia Sale June 25, 2011 Blackstone,Va auctioneer: Daniel lanier, lanier auction serVices, Blackstone, Va PeDigree reaDer: carl Brantley, north WilkesBoro, nc
Highlights Average price per lot - $898.43 68 lots sold VOLUME BUYERS: Jerry Loveday, E&L Texas Longhorn Farm, Dandridge, TN Jesse Austin, Cedar Ridge Farm, Mineral, VA Robert Beagle, Everett, PA
Sale report and pictures submitted by Heart of Virginia Sale
The Heart Of Virginia Sale and Willis Bend Longhorns would like to thank all of our consignors and buyers for their help in making this sale a success. We would also like express a special thanks to Roger Townsend, Larry Bischoff, Monty Polk, Mark Stuck, Tammy Stuck, Jerry Loveday, Carl Brantley and Kevin Rudkoeski. These breeders put in a lot of hours helping with this sale and without their help, it would not have taken place. We hope to make this an annual sale at the Blackstone Location. Consignment forms will be coming soon!! Jerry Loveday, Dandridge, TN with WD Lady Ruler.
✯✯✯✯✯✯✯✯✯✯ HIGH SELLING LOT:
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Consignor: Estate of Bill Derey Buyer: Jerry Loveday, E&L Texas Longhorn Farm, Dandridge, TN
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Mark & Tammy Stuck, Summerduck, VA with WD Carmela.
OTHER HIGH SELLING LOTS:
TLBAA Board Member Carl Brantley, North Wilkesboro, NC; Tammy Stuck, Summerduck, VA; Daniel Lanier, Blackstone, VA.
WD CARMELA - Buyer: Mark & Tammy Stuck, Big Cedar Ridge, Summerduck, VA. Consignor: Estate of Bill Derey
Idaho Texas Longhorn Producers Assocation
Dan Erskine, President • derskine@cityofboise.org
And then........Summer finally came! After a long winter and a longer, wetter Spring, Summer arrived. The hay is a month late and now it's in the mid Nineties but the cows, calves and ITLPA Members are loving it. Dan Erskin, the 2011 ITLPA President has had two member meetings. The last meeting was utilized to finalize show arrangements. The show this year was bigger and better than ever with exhibitors from Idaho, Washington and Colorado. First place in CLASSES paid $120 for first, and paid six deep. Along with prize money, Grand Champions received Gist belt buckles retailing for $250 each and ribbons. An Open and Youth show were held. Dean Goodner of Lawrence Morgan Longhorns attended the ITLA sponsored Longhorn seminar in Branson, MO in May and reported to the general ITLPA Membership. The seminar was a tremendous opportunity to meet and learn from industry leaders who gave unstintingly of their combined experience and wisdom. And speaking of wisdom (maybe just entertainment) when you see Doug Hunt,ask him EXACTLY what the difference is between line breeding and inbreeding and why in he personally hates the term "inbreeding". I promise you'll love his answers. All Longhorns breeders are encouraged to attend the learning seminars sponsored by either Association when they have "name brand" speakers including, but not limited to, the Dickinsons, Searles, Hunts and RCALF reps of the industry. The individual sessions are short and educational. The speakers are candid, experienced and humble. They can eliminate a lot beginning Breeders' mistakes and shortcut the time it takes to have a profitable herd. Darol Dickinson of Dickinson Cattle Company has been successfully marketing Longhorns via the Internet for some time. We now have an opportunity to emulate Darol and others by having a web page designed both professionally and economically. "Jamie" from the "Hired Hand" develops web pages to fit most budgets. Jamie's contact number is 319-239-2662. We hope to see you at our show the last week of August.
Northwest Longhorn Association
Sheryl Johnson, President • j5longhorns@yahoo.com
Just a little up to date news from here in the beautiful Northwest where, so far this summer we haven't been over 80 degrees!!!! Our West Coast Sale was a great success this year (results and photos included in this issue of the Trails.) Now we are working on the upcoming Affiliate princess contest & some members are working towards getting pictures taken for the entries. The Central Oregon world qualifying show is on our agenda for August 7th too.Show chairmen Tami & Joel Kuntz are busy getting things ready for that show. Also some members are looking forward to getting entries into the Oregon State Fair. We want to welcome new members to our Association: David Sexton- Salem, Oregon (our top buyer from W. Coast Sale); Dough Woodard -Vacaville, CA; Bill Le'AN -Humansville, MO; John Heven - Johnson City, TX
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NEWS On the Trail...
Former Trails Editor Pens Longhorn Mystery
John Sharpe, former managing editor of the Texas Longhorn Trails has written a mystery which surrounds the disappearance of a Champion Longhorn bull. Titled NO MORE BULL the mystery features veterinarian Dr. Gil Tailor. Tailor takes a temporary job in a small Colorado town to escape his painful past. But his past gets there first. When he is accused of killing his best friend, a Champion Longhorn bull, a winning race horse, half a herd of dairy cows and one local son-of-a-bitch, he is forced to save his reputation, career and eventually his
life in order to prove his innocence. According to Sharpe, “I started germinating the idea for this book during all those years my wife, Cy, and I traveled for the Trails. I’m addicted to reading and particularly like mysteries and westerns. I thought it would be fun to combine the two. And if I could add in Texas Longhorns, I’d have the best of all worlds.” Set in today's West, this book is packed with all the action and suspense you'd expect from a story overflowing with Longhorn cattle, bucking horses, rough and tumble cowboys and cute but tough cowgirls. You'll want to go out for a drink with these characters after you finish reading. Even if you've never been West, saddled a horse or handled a lariat, Sharpe's writing puts you there and makes you feel like
you're one of the hands. John and Cy published a tabloid paper called the Longhorn World before being asked by the TLBAA to start the Trails for the TLBAA. Starting it in 1988, John acted as managing editor and Cy sold the advertising. “My days with the Trails were among our best,” says Sharpe. “We got to see the country, visit terrific people, and photograph and write stories about the legendary Longhorn breed. Longhorn breeders are among the greatest people on earth.” The Sharpes left the Trails in 1991 to deal with the illness of a family member. You can learn more about NO MORE BULL which will be published in August of 2011 and catch up with John and Cy at http://johnsharpebooks.blogspot.com/. The author can be reached at (719) 646-4255
Hill Country’s Ron Sitton Pays The Bills With Riding Longhorns By John Bradshaw, Courtesy of Livestock Weekly LUCKENBACH, Texas — Ron Sitton has a pretty good job. He spends his weekends in scenic Luckenbach, listening to live music while tourists line up and pay him to photograph them sitting on his trained Longhorn. Sitton has been in the riding Longhorn business for 21 years, the first 13 at the Fort Worth Stockyards. His steers have all been broke to stand patiently while tourists waller up on them for a photo, but they also ride nicely. Business was brisk early one Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago, and by mid-afternoon Sitton had customers literally one after the other. After Sitton helps people up on his steer, he tightens the left rein slightly and takes a wrap around the saddle horn. This turns Shotgun’s head so he is staring at the camera each time. Customers have the option of using their own camera and tipping Sitton whatever they feel appropriate, which was generally quite a bit, or for a reasonable fee he will use his equipment and have them a print made in a few minutes. His photos are mounted in what he calls a “decorative frame,” which he tells people are “hanging in some of the finest homes in Texas and around the world.” His definition is somewhat loose, because the frames are made of paper and the photos attached with a glue stick. It might be said that Sitton is full of bull, but he knows it. He even said, “Without b.s., you won’t have flowers, so spread it thick.” RON SITTON makes his living in the Longhorn business, but only one steer at a time. This particular steer, Shotgun, rides like a saddle horse but is content to stand patiently while tourist after tourist has photos made on him.
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He has a big personality, and people seem to enjoy it. Sitton has trained more than 30 Longhorns to date. He only uses steers, and they must be photogenic. Brindles do not photograph well, he said. Steers need to be at least two years old before they are broken, though he prefers they be four. Longhorns are still fairly small at two, and he said they must be big enough for a man to get on. “I like them about four to six years old,” he said. His current steer, Shotgun, was nearly seven when Sitton broke him. The steer was gentle, and Sitton already had him broke to pull a wagon. Not all of them are gentle when he begins, however. He has broken steers right out of the pasture. It takes one and a half to two years to break a wild one. For those wild cattle, Sitton said he isolates them. Cattle are a social animal, and they become easier to handle when he is the only one they interact with. The other steers, those that are gentle and trained for the photoops, are sold for $10,000. That price is more for a business than just a steer. Sitton has buyers spend a couple of days with him to learn how to operate their Longhorn, as well as the business and financial end of things. He is required to carry a million-dollar liability insurance policy, though he has never had a claim. In addition to the Longhorns, Sitton is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. Alone or with his steers, he has appeared in numerous television shows and movies. He has worked alongside many stars and politicians, and he is still in the business today. Sitton enjoys his job, and he said it and living in Luckenbach are a dream come true. He has been places and met people he never would have otherwise.
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Mobile Meat Processing Unit Achieves USDA Certification Callicrate Cattle Co. will be authorized to process cattle within walking distance of where they were born and raised on the rolling plains of Northwest Kansas after receiving a grant of inspection recently from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A mobile meat processing unit parked near St. Francis, Kan., will be used for on-farm processing of beef, lambs, Ranch Foods Direct demonstrated the mobile meat processing unit last November goats and pigs. Most of the meat will be marketed through at Venetucci Farm south of Colorado Springs. The unit received a grant of inspecthe wholesale and retail outlets of Ranch Foods Direct in tion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 9. It will allow livestock to Colorado Springs. be processed right on the farm instead of being transported long distances. The unit was on display last fall at Venetucci Farm during a live demonstration showing the public how it works and why it represents an improvement over large scale processing methods. The most important aspect of on-farm processing is that it reduces stress on the livestock, which are routinely trucked hundreds of miles to large packing plants, according to Mike Callicrate, owner of Ranch Foods Direct and Callicrate Cattle Co. “It stands to reason that less stress is better for the animal and for meat quality,” Callicrate says. “Some research on bison has shown that shipping them as little as 25 miles can reduce meat tenderness and quality substantially.” The idea of creating a more locally based processing alternative to large meatpacking plants extends back at least two decades, according to Laura Krebsbach, a nonprofit consultant who headed up the project to build the mobile processing unit. “We felt like we needed to find positive solutions to benefit the small sustainable livestock producers who are still left in this country,” she says. “It just made sense for the Elmore Family Addition Nebraska Environmental Action Coalition to take on this project and build a unit in the John & Christa Elmore are proud parents Midwest, the heart of farming and ranching country, where we felt like we could do it betof a new baby Boy! Roper Ray Elmore was ter and more affordably. I am grateful to Mike Callicrate, who became involved in testing born on June 20, 2011. He weighed 7 lbs. and certifying the model, for sharing his dedication, support and financial contributions. and 16 oz. and was 20.5 inches long. We He sees the big picture and shares our vision.” congratulate grandparents Randy & Mobile units cost less to build than brick-and-mortar facilities and are more flexible Shannon Steele and parents John & because they can be moved between locations. Christa Elmore on the newest addition to “While the demand for locally and responsibly raised meat is increasing, small farmtheir family! ers and ranchers who are best suited to fill that need have been losing access to custom processors as the meat industry consolidates,” Krebsbach says. “We wanted to design something that was within the financial reach of rancher groups, nonprofits, co-ops or cutand-wrap meat facilities. When you consider the carbon footprint, the environmental impact and animal welfare issues, as well as giving the producer more control over his product and putting more money in his pocket, this approach just makes so much sense for so many reasons.” USDA approval was officially granted on May 9. USDA inspection allows the meat to be sold in wholesale and retail markets across the U.S. and internationally. Only a few mobile meat processing units have been certified nationwide. Manufacturer Jerry Eisenmenger, who comes from a ranching family and now owns Flat River Corp. of Columbus, Neb., is busy building two more models, and the Nebraska Environmental Action Coalition is providing no-cost assistance to ranchers and Native American tribes who have expressed interest in the concept. “Mobile meat processing can be an important component in rebuilding local and Welcome Addition regional food systems, a primary objective of USDA’s Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food To The Oliver Family campaign. Both Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan provided Congratulations to Mark & Jenae Oliver critical support in turning this project into a reality,” Callicrate says. on the birth of their first daughter, “Secretary Vilsack helped usher us through this process,” Krebsbach adds. “He deserves Wyleigh Belle Oliver, who was born July a lot of credit for being able to look down the road and see that we need to rebuild rural 8, 2011 in Athens, TX. Wyleigh weighed 9 communities by bringing back the infrastructure for small producers.” lbs. and 11 oz. She measured 22.75”. The unit can process up to 15 to 20 cattle per day with a USDA meat inspector overProud grandparents are John & Brenda seeing the processing of each animal. That compares to large plants where inspectors monOliver, Waxahachie, TX and Don & itor fast-moving lines that process an animal every 8 to 9 seconds. More information about Lauren Lampier, Ferris, TX. the mobile processing concept, including photos and videos, are available at www.MobileMeatProcessing.com. Or contact Mike Callicrate by calling 785-332-8218.
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A dependable supply of water for cattle is extremely important in summer. Cattle always drink more during hot weather. A 1200-pound dry cow might drink about 10.5 gallons per day, and a lactating cow might drink up to 30 gallons per day, but both will drink more if weather is hot and they are trying to cool themselves by sweating. Water availability is very important, but so is water quality. If the water becomes contaminated by urine and feces—as when cattle have access to a pond—the cattle may not drink as much, and may also be at risk for disease. Some diseases, such as leptospirosis, can be spread by urine. Coccidiosis, E. coli, salmonella and a number of other diseases can be spread by feces. Cattle often wade into the water to try to cool themselves. When groups of cattle mill around in the water they may trample and degrade the banks of the stream or pond—and muddy and contaminate the water. Cows often wade out as far as they can, to get to cleaner water, but small calves generally drink from the bank or shallow areas—and won’t drink much if the water is dirty. Research trials have shown that calves drink more water (and have better growth) if it is clean, rather than when they only have access to water that has been muddied and contaminated by the cows. This problem can be solved by fencing off the stream or pond. If you limit cattle to a controlled watering area—or to a trough where water has been piped from the stream or pond—rather than letting them wade into the water source, they will benefit from cleaner water and won’t damage the riparian area by trampling the banks and eating all the vegetation. Rocks can be hauled in to protect the bank at the access area where the cattle enter the water, so it won’t become deep mud. The most effective way to make sure cattle have clean water and can’t damage or contaminate the pond is to fence it off completely and pipe water by gravity flow or via pump to a water trough or tank. A float valve can regulate the flow into the tank. Windmills have often been used for pumping water into a tank, and solarpowered pumps can work in some cases. NOSE PUMP - Another option is a frost-free nose pump— which requires no electricity or any other source of power. Cattle
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pump water for themselves and you don’t have to depend on wind or solar power. The nose-pump works in cold weather because it never freezes up (even down to 40 below zero) and solves summer water problems because cattle always have plenty of clean water. Jim Anderson, at Rimbey Alberta created this simple water system in which cattle pump their own water from shallow wells or ponds. His innovation is a piston pump, like the old-fashioned well in which a person works the handle up and down to lift water. "We modified this so cattle could use their nose to push a lever. This operates the piston pump by raising and lowering the piston in the cylinder, the same as a handle used to do. Like the old-fashioned hand pump, we have a 3-inch cylinder down inside the well. We capture enough geothermal heat from the ground to keep the water in the well from freezing.” The waterer is a small basin on the top end of a vertical culvert, with a lever that can be pushed by the cow's nose. The culvert has 2 feet sticking above ground level, going down to whatever depth is required to make use of ground water or the bottom of a nearby pond (water from the pond is piped horizontally underground to the bottom of the culvert). A buried collection tank from a spring would work also. A regular well can be used, as long as the water level comes up to about 30 feet or less from the surface. "Some ranchers use large pipes, but the typical installation is a road culvert at least 24 inches in diameter, set in the ground at least 20 feet. The 2 factors that determine how much geothermal heat you'll gain is how deep you go, and how big a pipe you take to that depth. The bigger the pipe, the more opportunity for heat to rise, to keep the water pipe in the center warm enough to never freeze,” says Anderson. The beauty of this system in summer is that cattle always have fresh, clean water, and the water source is never contaminated. The fenced-off pond or stream stays healthier, with vegetation growing along the banks to keep them stable. Due to environmental concerns about riparian areas and water quality, this is a perfect solution for providing water for cattle.
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IN BOX As the editor, I receive various interesting photos along with explanations either through the mail or e-mail. I would like to share some of them with you inside the Trails magazine each month. If you have an interesting tid-bit or photo that may not be suitable for “Just for Grins”, please send them to me. You may end up in the next issue of the Trails!
First Longhorn Twins Born Submitted by Hilda Bolling Edwards Edwards Ranch
Sale report submitted by ITTLA
15th Annual ITTLA Sale Results June 11, 2011 Marietta, OK auctiOneer: rOn Marquess, Ben Wheeler, tX Pedigree reader: Wesley WatsOn, garvin, OK
Highlights Total lots consigned to Sale.....54 Total Scratched Lots.....4 Total Number of lots PO’d....5 Total Lots Sold.....45 Average Price for Top 5 Selling Lots was: $ 1175.00 per Lot Average Price for Top 10 Lots Sold: $ 1052.50 per lot Average Price per Lot Actually Sold (45 lots): $ 768.00 per lot HIGH SELLING LOTS: $1,400 – LOT 27
Consigned by: Bob Loomis
$1,300
– LOT 51 Consigned by: Bob Loomis
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Special Thanks to Ron Marquess for his support and generosity to the ITTLA. Special Thanks to Wesley Watson for his continued support to the ITTLA Sale and for his eagerness to enhance pedigree details and work with the auctioneer to attain the best prices possible. Special Thanks to Eddie Knoll for his support and generosity to the ITTLA. We would like to thank all of the members who worked, donated and purchased ads in the catalog. This sale could not be done without your continued support. Also, thanks to the buyers of cattle at the sale this year. These buyers purchased some high quality cattle this year at very reasonable prices and we think they will be very happy with their purchases. We had 19 consignors and 20 different buyers this year, and we would like to thank them all. $1,125
– LOT 39 Consigned by: Bob Loomis
$1,050
– LOT 19 Consigned by: Darlene Aldridge
$1,025
– LOT 38 Consigned by: Wes Watson
These Longhorn heifer twins were born June 22, 2011. The dam is UJ Miss Honey Bee, age 15, and the sire is WR 2459, age 10. The twins were born at the Edwards Ranch in Comanche, TX. The Edwards Ranch is registered by the State of Texas as a Century Ranch, since it has been in continuous agricultural production by one family for more than 100 years. There have been cattle on the ranch since it’s founding in 1886 and Registered Longhorns have been since 1982. No twin Longhorn births had been previously recorded. UJ Miss Honey Bee was purchased from Joe Keatley at the Fort Worth TLBAA Sale in September 1998. WR 2549 was purchased at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife REfuge in September, 2001. Dam, sire and twins are all doing well.
Brent & Ruth Weinstein of Longhorn W Ranch of Metairie, LA submitted this photo of “Red Bull” cooling off. He is the son of World Champion Overwhelming Toro and Sandy Sue. This bull has the right idea for these long, hot summer days.
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City Slickers Sampson Creek Ranch George and Laureen Gennin Terry King Gene A. Juranka Brian and Mary Stahl Shallow Valley Ranch Don and/or Renee Loquiao Russ Moore Thomas Markert Billy R. Walker Patrick Neeley Willis Bend Longhorns A and R Ranch Allen Or Linda Evans Claude or Carole D. Lipscomb Coolamon Grazing Co. Double D Arena Mark Hubbell Terry Roberts Mark Flinchum Mozella Acres Bronze By Cooley Khaos Cattle Company Red Oak Farm Calvin Deemer Catherine Hawke Dave Hovingh Don Constable Dwain Aguillard Eddie C. Durr, Jr. Emily Ingram Gary & Judy Walters Janet E. Fowler Jay Wachter & Susan Willard Jesse & Gay Ann Majors Larry F. Overbeck Rick Bogle Sand Hills Ranch Scott McDowell Tom Mehlberg William Wick
Jerusalem Ridge Ranch Panther Creek Ranch Jim Dorn Bill & Freida Golden Rio Vista Ranch Star Creek Ranch Mr & Mrs Joachim Schaab Bobby Cox Clark and Jill Smith Johnnie & Pat Robinson Vida Nueva Ranch Jimmy Brister Red River Longhorn Ranch Cactus Rose Longhorns David and Jo Anne Norwood Kay L. Roush Terry and Sherri Adcock Asa Gamble John Oliver The Cattlerack Ranch Wes and Carol Chancey Brad & Tiffany Scherer Crossed T's Cattle Company Dr. Gene and Lana Hightower John and /or Judy Coats Ken Kretzschmar Louise Reinert Melvin & Alice French Randy Tschacher Rex Mosser Rodney & Patti Mahaffey Ron & Kevin Asbill Stephen and Karol Howell Swing'n Star Ranch T.M. and Jean Smith Trigg & Traci Moore Clinard Longhorns Harold & Kari Glover Anchor T Ranch Art & Darlene Schimmelpfening Back-N-Forth Longhorns Brian Brett Bruce & Karen Fisher Carla Payne Darold & Barbara Meyer David & Lynda Bradley Don & Andrea Bordelon Dwain & Teresa Gilliam Gay Lazarine Thomas Guthrie Creek Longhorn Cattle Henry Roy Horton Kathleen and Jeff Hoffman Loyd & Bettie Gibbs Mike Taylor Paul or Lisa Brunsvold Proctor Ridge Ranch Randy & Karen Reynolds Randy & Shannon Steele Ronald J. Martens Ross Ohlendorf Schumacher Cattle Company Stephen and Peggy Lee Stephen P Head
William Buck Bow Carpenter Craige Bottorff Don Blansitt El Coyote Ranch J.D. Mooney Lindauer Longhorn Company Mike and Kim MacLeod Ron & Barbara Marquess Russell E. Fairchild 4-C Ranch Area Historical Museum Barbara Franklin Schmidt Bob Jackson Brown's Longhorns Clint Ray Birdwell Craig & Joyce Hester David Stanley Deer Creek Longhorns Dennis Urbantke Donnie Taylor Dos Arrows Longhorns Dr. Scott E. Isdale Dr. W. Lou Shields Edwards Ranch George and Cindy Dennis Guy Warren III Jim & Karen Reisman Jody, Tonya & Patrick Beck Joe or Carolyn Wissel John R. Randolph JT Wehring Kate Morgan/ Jheroen Dorenbosch Kathryn Leann Head Ken and Patsy Wise Ken Harris Kenneth Johnson Lonnie Shan Matthew J. Durkin Matt Hill Mike & Christy Williams Robert R. King Robert S. Garner Ron & Linda Steele Sandra K. Livingston & Jim Bownds Partnership Struthoff Ranch Talon Land and Cattle Triple R Ranch William T. & Sandra J. Martin
Jordan Ranch Two Heart Bar Ranch Barbara J. Fillmore Lovitt Longhorns Mike & Debbie Bowman Bob & Pam Loomis Bruce Rose Jeff and Sylvia Ketelsen Grant & Jane Miller Alexandra Dees Folsom Falls Ranch Joel and Tamara Kuntz R-B Farm Robert and Jenny Smoot Sulu Som're Ranch Paul & Patti Gilbreth Thomas P Herzog Gregg or Sandra Lynn Sherwood Bethany Rosales Charley E. and Doris Snyder Dl Cattle Company J5 Longhorns Jeffrey L. & Sue L. McMahan Robert & Lisa Van Liew Safari B Ranch Jeffrey Vonk Kent & Sandy Harrell Wesley Earl Watson Chris Bandley Daniel Fey Doug Hunt Kenneth J. & Valerie J. Webb Leo & Jolene Omlin McGill Ranch Mike and Carole Koss Pace Cattle Company Todd and Kelli McKnight David A. Schmidt Donald & Sharron Wiens Five Star Ranch Lucinda K. Christian Brink Longhorns Craig Perez David & Kimberly Nikodym Dr. Fritz & Rebecca Moeller IWA Ranch Jill E. Bachus Jim and Wanda Taylor Justin Hansen Kent And Christine Bladen Lane Visser Larry Johnston L.D. and Debbie Mc Intyre L/D Livestock Mary Mann Richard & Linda Spooner Rock Creek Cattle Co Rodney Lind Ronna Bryant Ryan Welch Stompin Brush Farm Susan Rowland Tom and Molly St. Hilaire W.R. Van Gundy
Division B Doug and Sandy Stotts John T. & Betty Baker Elias F. Hal Meyer, Jr. Jonell Westerberg & Norman (Roger) Ridgway Mason and Yvonne Romans Bob Coffee Rolling Creek Ranch Lee & Gay Gaddis Fort Griffin State Historic Site Dale Land and Cattle Dubravka Romano Edwin & Debra Stojanik Jim and Luann Blay Linda Jack Brent & Cynthia Bolen Rocking 'O' Ranch Don & Rhonda Poe Steve Day
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Division C Carnahan Ranch Lawrence Morgan Longhorns Bonnie & Rodger Damrow Carole Muchmore Randy and Jamie Briscoe Rockin J Longhorns Art Anders Buckhorn Cattle Company Melvin & Rebecca Rhodes C C Land & Cattle Co
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3. Start thinking about weaning calves. If you are involved in a performance program, at weaning the calves should be weighed, weaning weights adjusted to a 205-day equivalent and weaning ratios calculated. 4. Look closely at your cow herd. Any defects, such as poor udders, etc., should be recorded for culling purposes at weaning time.
Fall Calving: 1. Prepare for the start of calving season. Separate cow herd into management groups for the calving season (first-calf heifers, second-calf cows, mature cows and open heifers). Watch body condition of the groups closely. Young females entering their first calving season require special nutritional assistance to insure they maintain a reasonable body condition after calving, produce adequate levels
of milk for their offspring and rebreed for the coming year. 2. Watch first-calf heifers closely for potential calving difficulty. 3. Weigh all yearling heifers and bulls, adjusting the weights to a 365-day equivalent and calculate yearling ratios. Utilize the performance calculations as an aid in selection of your replacement heifers, if performance and growth are important selection criteria according to your herd objectives. 4. Before breeding, all replacement heifers should be vaccinated with intramuscular IBR/BVD (modified live virus), seven-way Clostridial bacterin booster, five-way Leptospirosis, Vibriosis and dewormed with an acceptable internal parasite product. 5. Conduct breeding soundness exams and fertility checks on all bulls prior to the breeding season.
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Adcock, Terry & Sherri ..................44 Almendra Longhorns....................42 Anderson, Frank Jr. and III ............9 Anchor D Ranch ............................40
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B&C Show Me Sales......................27 Bar H Ranch....................................42 Beadle Land & Cattle................8, 42 Beargrass Ranch..............................43 Best At West Sale ......................36-37 Billingsley Longhorns ............23, 44 Blue Mountain Longhorns ..........33 Bond Ranch ....................................42 Box Z Ranch................................8, 44 Brett Ranch ......................................43 Buckhorn Cattle Co. ..........8, 33, 43 Bull Creek Longhorns ..............7, 43 Butler Breeders ..............................8-9
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Longhorn Roundup Auctions ....35 Longhorn Sale Pen ........................34 Loomis Longhorns ..........................9
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McLeod Ranch ..................................8 Miller, Tim ......................................42 Morgan Livestock ..........................40 Moriah Farms..................................43 Mosser Longhorns ........................44
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Eagles Ridge Longhorns..................8 El Coyote Ranch ........................1, 43 End of Trail Ranch........................ 42 ET Longhorns..................................42
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Harrell Ranch ....................................8 Helm Cattle Co. ............................43 Hickman Longhorns ....................44 Husky Branding Irons ..................41
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J.T. Wehring Family Ranch ..........43 Jack Mountain Ranch....................44 Jane’s Land & Cattle Co. ................9 Junction Hill....................................43
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Lazy L Longhorns ..........................33 Lemley Longhorns ........................44 Little Ace Cattle Co...........................8 Lone Wolf Ranch ....................35, 42 Longhorn Designs..........................35 September 2011
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Panther Creek Longhorns ............44 Pearl Longhorn Ranch ..................44
Ranch ......................................42 R R&R Rafter H Longhorns..........................8 Red Peak Ranch..............................44 Rio Vista Ranch..........................8, 44 River Ranch....................................IFC Rocking G Ranch..............................9 Rocking P Longhorns ......................8 Rosebud’s Flatrock Ranch ............44 Royal Heritage Farm......................42 Running Arrow Farm ....................41
D Dalgood Longhorns ........................9
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C.C. Land & Cattle Co. ................42 C R Ranches ....................................43 Carpenter, Bo & Sylvia ..................44 CedarView Ranch ..........................42 Champion Genetics ......................41 Concho Ranch ..................................9
Deer Creek Longhorns..................44 Diamond Q Longhorns ..............43 Diamond S Longhorns ................42 Dick’s Ranch Supply ......................41 Double LB Longhorns ..................44
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7 Bar Longhorns ............................43 Safari B Ranch ................................43 Sand Hills Ranch ............................31 Semkin Longhorns ........................43 Sidewinder Cattle Co.......................9 Smith, T.M. & Jean ........................43 Split Rock Cedar Ranch ..................3 SS Longhorns..................................43 Star Creek Ranch ..............................7 Stotts Hideaway Ranch ........44, BC Stringer, Lee......................................40 Struthoff Ranch ..............................44
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TLBAA Horn Showcase ..........19-22 Tony’s Feed & Seed ........................40 Triple R Ranch (MI) ......................42 Triple R Ranch (TX) ..................9, 18 Triple T Longhorns ........................43 T Spur Longhorns ..........................42
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V&J Longhorns..................................9 Valley View Ranch ..........................31 Vida Nueva Ranch ........................44
Photo courtesy of Cindy Dennis, Coupland, TX
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Westfarms, Inc...................................8 White Rock Ranch..........................27 Wichita Fence..................................35
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Save the date! Texas Longhorn Coming Events SEPTEMBER 2011
SEPT 3 • Butler Breeder’s Invitational Sale, Lockhart, TX. Kaso Kety (985) 674-6492 or Michael McLeod (361) 771-5355. SEPT 3-24 • The Kansas 150th Anniversary Cattle Drive, Caldwell, KS. Michael Clover (620) 532-3455 or michael.clover@sbcglobal.net. SEPT 9-10 • Winchester Futurity, George Henderson 2nd Expo Center, Lufkin, TX. Donnie Taylor (936) 414-1401 or Bruce Ollive (936) 674-5180. SEPT 9-11 • West Texas State Fair, Taylor Co. Expo Center, Abilene, TX. Billy Thompson (325) 660-6499 or (325) 668-3988. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. SEPT 11 • NWLA Spokane Interstate Fair, Spokane, WA. Sheryl Johnson and Bob Larson. (503) 349-4985 or (503) 829-9459. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. SEPT 17 • The Appalachian Trail Registered Texas Longhorn Consignment Sale, Mt. Airy Stockyard, Mt. Airy, NC. Carl R. Brantley, Wilkesboro, NC. (336) 667-5452 or pyledriver 1964@yahoo.com. SEPT 17 • Hunts Command Respect Production Sale, Marietta, OK. Randy Briscoe (405) 375-3090 or (405) 368-6766 cell or Jim Curry (817) 319-5556. SEPT 21-22 • New Mexico State Fair, Albuquerque, NM. Lynn Starritt, TLBNM Sec./Treas., (915) 252-4118 cell or (915) 886-7063 fax. www.tlbnm.com Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. SEPT 21-24 • Fall Round-Up On-line Auction - longhornroundu pauctions.com. Forms & information on website. Russell Hooks (409) 381-0616 or russellh@longhornroundup.com SEPT 24 • B&C Show Me Fall Longhorn Sale, Brookfield Livestock Auction, Inc., Bus. Hwy. 36, Brookfield, MO. Sayre Auction & Sale Management, Bill Sayre (660) 258-2973 or cell (660) 734-0827 or Shawn (660) 734-8782. SEPT 29-OCT 1 • East Texs State Fair, Tyler, TX. Dr. Gene & Lana Hightower (903) 963-7442 or glcattleco@aol.com. Entry form and info at www.etstatefair.com. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. SEPT 29-OCT 1 • Tulsa State Fair, Tulsa, OK. Steve & Bodie Quary (405) 567-3093. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth.
OCTOBER 2011
OCT 1-2 • Texas Rice Festival Longhorn Show, Winnie, TX. Carol or James Gentz, Jr. (409) 296-2434 or (409) 267-5232. www.texasricefestival.org. Qualifying Haltered and Youth. OCT 7-9 • CATL Far West Qualifying Show and Official TLBAA Horn Showcase Satellite Measuring Site, Kings County Fairgrounds, Hanford, CA. Entry Deadline Sept. 24, 2011. Gail Moore (559) 779-1455 cell, (559) 583-8115 office. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. OCT 7-9 • Heart of Texas Fair, Heart O’ Texas Fairgrounds, Waco, TX. Online entries only at www.hotfair.com. Deadline-9/16/11. Sue Bowdoin (254) 486-2581. Qualifying Youth. OCT 13-15 • TLBAA Longhorn Weekend & Horn Showcase, Fort Worth, TX. Kim Barfield (817) 625-6241 or kim@tlbaa.org or Pam Galloway pam.galloway@tlbaa.org. OCT 15 • Horn Showcase Sale, Fort Worth, TX. Kim Barfield (817) 625-6241 or kim@tlbaa.org or Pam Galloway pam.galloway@tlbaa.org. Consignment deadline: Aug. 1, 2011,www.tlbaa.org. OCT 21-23 • State Fair of Texas, Dallas, TX. Trigg & Traci Moore Traci@Triple-T-Longhorns.com or (254) 796-4269 or (254) 396-5592. Entry deadline September 1. Qualifying Halterd & Youth. OCT 22 • NILE Longhorn Show, Billings, MT. Chuck Gams (406) 652-5783. Qualifying Halterd, Free & Youth. OCT 29 • Deer Creek Longhorns Fall 123 Sale, Brenham, TX. Bruce Hazelwood, Farm Mgr. (979) 277-8016 or Frank Hevrdejs (713) 341-5706. www.dclonghorns.com OCT 29 • Nebraska Texas Longhorn Assoc. Annual Sale, Beatrice Livestock Auction, Beatrice, NE. Roger or Bonnie Damrow (402) 423-5441 or brdamrow6@aol.com. Delwin Smeal (402) 568-2353 or Larry Long (308) 530-7272. www.beatrice77.net.
NOVEMBER 2011
NOV 4-6 • Louisiana State Fair, Shreveport, LA. Donnie Taylor (936) 414-1401. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth.
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NOV 5 • Marquess Arrow Production Sale, Ben Wheeler, TX. Ron & Barbara Marquess (903) 833-5810 or (903) 570-5199. NOV 5 • Texas Longhorn Fall Sale, Oyen Crossroads Centre, Oyen, Alberta. To consign or for info: Ron Walker, Box 58, Redcliff, Alberta, T0J 2P0 or (403) 548-6684. NOV 11-13 • ARK-LA-TEX Fall Show, George Henderson Expo Center, Lufkin, TX. Donnie Taylor (936) 414-1401 or Bobbye DuBose (409) 384-8120. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. NOV 18-20 • Kaufman Police Association First Annual Longhorn Show. S&S Arena, Terrell, TX. East Texas Longhorn Association. Entry Deadline: November 1. Joel Norris (972) 533-4945 or (972) 932-3648. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. NOV 20 • Tri-State Longhorn Sale,Crawford Livestock Market, Crawford, NE. Art & Hayley Anders (308) 665-2457 H, Art cell (308) 430-4009; Hayley Cell (308) 430-4008.
DECEMBER 2011
DEC 2-3 • Holiday Longhorn Extravaganza, Wise Co. Sheriff’s Posse Grounds, Decatur, TX. (NTLA & The Wise Co. Youth Project) Tina Cook, P.O. Box 504, Paradise, TX 76073 (940) 399-7993 or tcook@pisd.net. Qualifying Haltered and Youth. DEC 3 • TLBAA Best at West Membership Sale, West, TX. TLBAA (817) 625-6241 www.tlbaa.org.
JANUARY 2012
JAN 14 • Texas Longhorn Premier Heifer Sale, West Arena, Fort Worth, TX. Kim Barfield (817) 625-6241 or kim@tlbaa.org. www.tlbaa.org JAN 16-17 • Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, Watt Arena, Fort Worth, TX. Pam Galloway (817) 625-6241 or pam@tlbaa.org. Qualifying Haltered &Youth.
FEBRUARY 2012
FEB 18-19 • Sierra County Longhorn Show, Truth or Consequences, NM. Lynn Starritt, TLBNM Sec./Treas., (915) 252-4118 cell or (915) 886-7063 fax. www.tlbnm.com. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. FEB 24-26 • San Angelo Stock Show, San Angelo, TX. Dennis Urbantke (325) 655-3500 or (325) 656-9321. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth.
MARCH 2012
MAR 2-3 • Longhorns & Lace Benefit & Sale, Red River Sale Barn, Marietta, OK. www.longhornsandlacesale.com Tessa Wheeler Millsap, Improving Genetics, (254) 315-6548, tess2305@aol.com; Molly Clubb, Hired Hand Software, (319) 269-8903, molly@hiredhandsoftware.com. MAR 23-25 • Stillwater Shoot-Out, Stillwater, OK. Steve & Bodie Quary (405) 567-3093. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. MAR 31 • B&C Show Me Fall Longhorn Sale, Brookfield Livestock Auction, Inc., Bus. Hwy. 36, Brookfield, MO. Sayre Auction & Sale Management, Bill Sayre (660) 258-2973 or cell (660) 734-0827 or Shawn (660) 734-8782.
APRIL 2012
APR 13-15 • TLBGCA Spring Show, Washington County Fairgrounds, Brenham, TX. Susan Young, (713) 294-6334 or email susanbyoung@hotmail.com. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth. APR 20-22 • Rockdale Spring Show, Rockdale, TX. Sandi Nordhausen (512) 898-2401 or sandi@nordy.com or Patsy Davidson (518) 898-0321 or pmd22@juno.com. Qualifying Haltered and Youth. APR 27-28 • Midwest Longhorn Sale, Winfield, KS. Mike Bowman (316) 778-1717 or www.endoftrailranch.com.
MAY 2012
MAY 4-5 • Red McCombs 32st Anniversary Fiesta Texas Longhorn Sale, Johnson City, TX. www.redmccombslonghorns.com Alan Sparger - alan@redmccombslonghorns.com or (210) 445-8798.
AUGUST 2012
AUG 4 • Hudson-Valentine Invitational Longhorn Sale, Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth, TX. Lorinda Valentine (254) 584-2218. Texas Longhorn Trails