Here is the newest member of our Texas Longhorn herd. This is Cochise
Cochise the Texas Longhorn
He came from some of our old breeding stock that we sold to friends of ours. We switched to all steers instead of cow/calf pairs because of all the predators. With lion, wolves, coyotes, and bears all here, a new calf has a good chance of not surviving. In keeping with our conservation goals, we opted to change our herd rather than try and eliminate the predators who live on Double Circle Ranch.
Cochise was delivered and put in the pens at our barn – and he got pretty aggressive. You couldn’t walk into the pens without the danger of being charged. Grant and I cut 2 gentle steers out of the herd and drove them about 5 miles on horseback back to the barn to keep Cochise company. It worked, he gentled right down. The steer had never been alone and was just scared.
We do cull any steers that are mean. We do team building exercises and cattle drives where guests gather and move the steers- cannot have a chargey steer – especially one with horns! Besides, I am out riding until dark usually 5-6 days a week. No one would miss me until after sunset and then it would be too dark to find me till daybreak. No mean animals here—steers, dogs, horses, or husbands.
Cochise is available in our Sponsor-a-Steer program.
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