Longhorns

As I mentioned in an earlier post, we have 32 Longhorns that reside in the fields behind our bunk house.  These are purebred Texas Cattlemen's Longhorns, or something like that.

Because they are purebred it is important that other cattle don't get mixed in with them and muddle up the blood lines.

Well, that is exactly what happened this past week.  A few cows from a nearby ranch went rogue and got into LHI's pens.  To make it easier to catch the other cows, and be sure no blood line crossing happened, Peggy rounded up the Longhorns and kept them in the smaller pen behind our house while the rogue cows were rounded up.

Peggy has conditioned the Longhorns to make rounding them up quite simple.  She drives a vehicle over to the pen by our house, honks the horn twice, then yells "hup, hup" a few times.  The Longhorns hear it and know when they come there will be a snack waiting for them.

I took advantage of the fact that the cows were rounded up to get some fun pictures.  I even helped Peggy feed the Longhorns while they were rounded up by driving the truck through their pen while she unloaded food for them.  That was an experience.  I was afraid I was going to hit one with the truck!