Hombre the Longhorn

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This is my husbands baby, Hombre. He weighs 2010 pounds and his horns are 56 1/2 inches across and he is still growing.....

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So... Longhorns are nice? I have a healthy respect for bulls of any kind, especially if they have horns. I was chased by a Longhorn cow once and if I hadn't done that dive and roll through a barbed wire fence, she would have had me. I've been leary of them ever since.

But I'm interested, because our neighbor has some Longhorn bulls and when we send Bandit over there to rebreed her, it might well be to one of them. They're so majestic looking when they walk over the hill away from me (of course, there's a big honkin' fence between us, too!). My neighbors bulls don't look like they weigh that much, though. They're in with his Hereford cows and they look about the same size. Do Herefords actually weight that much?

~Lannie

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Hombe is very spoiled. He was a gift to me. DH told me he had bought me a riding lawn mower, and Hombre was delivered, he had just left his Momma, been castrated, got shots at the vets, plus a nose ring, had never been touched before, and he was MMMMMAAAAADDDDD. He jumped the fence the first week we had him, took everyone in the neighbor hood to corral him down at our neighbor's who raises mostly Angus. He let us keep him there about 8 weeks until we could get him tame enough to bring back to our place. Now, he is just a big baby. He turns heads and stops traffic when DH just walks him down the highway with his nose ring and a small rope. He is magnificent.

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Granny, that is one impressive Longhorn! I lived in Amarillo many years ago and there was a herd of Longhorns just off of I-40 right outside of the city limits.
I used to take my then 2 yr old son over and we'd sit and watch them for a couple of hours. The colors and horn conformations are so neat.

Your husband looks like he's enjoying the visit with Hombre as much as Hombre is enjoying it.
Is he giving him bread or marshmallows??

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Oh, he's a STEER! LOL! I don't know why, but I just assumed he was a bull. He sure is pretty! I mean, HANDSOME!

~Lannie

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He has to have bread or his biscuit every morning. He will not not eat bread with seeds on it, such as Multi-grain. He live plain old white bread . He is just rotten spoiled. He has a tire he plays with, hangs from a tree. He even managed to get the hay ring caught in his horns and lugged it all over. He is just a mess. I have alot of stories about his antics on the blog. He really makes me laugh. He even got a chair hung up in his horns one day. He even wrapped a blue tarp around his head like a turban. He tried to take the roof off a dog house when he got loose one day. You name it, he has done it.