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Marble, My old longhorn bull died, he was 27 years old, gentle as a puppy, I will miss seeing him every morning whem I drive by his pasture.



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Think I will hang his skull over the fire place. Rio7

Crazy how long they can live down there.

Wow. 27 y/o .....incredible. He looks like he was a good old boy.

Amazing how these animals grow on us.

Sorry to hear that, Blue.

Jim Conrad, This is Casper, almost 6' tall He lived to 30 Years old. Rio7

rockinbbar, you know. what it like. Blue

Just drove over to the pasture and took a few pictures of some of Marble's son's. Rio7

That is crazy longevity, I had no idea.



We generally can our black angus bulls when they are 5-6 years old. They get too big and ornery.




Blue, what do you think those big boys weigh?

Sam, The 3 steers i just posted pictures of are 15 Years old. Rio7

sam, this one is pushing 1800....

Green Acres is the place to be........



he'll go 1800, sure.

Gentlemen, that is a lot of bull.

Marbles son looks like he would not be fun to work in a chute.

We don't work them in a chute, but do work them in a tub 1 at a time. Rio7

You guys and your jumbo lawn ornaments...........grin

Blue, I always enjoy seeing the cattle when I am down there. We have a few long horns scattered around in Arkansas, but not many. A fellow had a nice herd of them south of Clarksville a few years ago. Maybe still does. They were big ones. Bigger than most that I see here. miles

I went out and had to shoot a bigger steer calf last night.


Got home from the EMT training and had forgotten all about him.


It was no good so I plugged him. At 40 below it would have been a schitty night to suffer.


We have at times sold bulls that weighed 2200 pounds. 5 or 6 years old.


The bulls have been getting a bit smaller in frame these days due to breeding.

There are several herds of Longhorns close to me. A neighbor that has some said that his are the best mammas he's ever seen.

Okay Rio, a question........do they normally live that long? My experience with Herefords and Angus has been that about 15 would be pretty much it. Although I usually sell them when they get old, so I've never kept one just to see how long they'd live. Had a horse make to almost 30, and I have an old gelding now that's 25.

I had to shoot a horse that was 30.

Fed him and when I was walking back to the barn, I heard a big crack!, and he fell down. His rear leg high up broke as he turned to go eat.

Just went to the house and got my gun and put him down.

Hate doing that with an animal that has been "family" for so many years.

That always sucks.

What was wrong with him, water belly?

Vet thinks he got injured somehow.

Something was wrong with a front shoulder, or at least he favored it.


We did not have them in the corral, so they were down the road a ways when he went down.



I always though he was sick, but the vet and wife disagreed with me.



She had been packing him water and feed, but yesterday he got on his side and could not get up.



It was going to be schitty last night so I shot him before some coyote ate his ass out.



So, we dont know anything for sure.....as usual!

By the time our angus bulls hit 6 they are headed off to the sale barn, they will typically weigh 2000-2200lbs by then.

We call our Longhorn's lookie luu's, they are here because we raised them all, and all there family, we enjoy having them, a little history of the old west. It's a wonder to me how they live so long, just nature I guess. Rio7

We got one when I was a kid to breed some heifers. We got him from an old guy in Texas that was in WWII. When he got back from the war, the Longhorns and some goats were what he had waiting on him, everything else had died out.

We could sell the calves straight off the cows and if they wasn't colored up too bad, they fit right in with the Simmentals.