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VOL. 23 NO. 6 SEPTEMBER 2011
Texas Longhorn Trails(817) 625-6241• (817) 625-1388 (FAX)P.O. Box 4430 • Fort Worth, TX 76164
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The Texas Longhorn Trails (ISSN-10988432, USPS 016469)is published monthly by the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association ofAmerica, 2315 N. Main, Ste. 402, Fort Worth, TX 76164. PeriodicalPostage Paid at Fort Worth, TX. Subscription rates: $60 per year; for-eign per year $75. Postmaster: Send address changes to: TexasLonghorn Trails, 2315 N. Main, Ste. 402, Fort Worth, TX 76164.Phone (817) 625-6241. Fax (817) 625-1388.
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Deadline: October 2011deadline is September 1st.
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Departments:Officers & Directors..........................5In The Pen ......................................13TLBT Update ................................14Message From The Chairman ........15Affiliate News ................................26Members In The News ..............28-29In Box ..............................................34Movers & Shakers ..........................38Herd Management ..........................45Ad Index ........................................47Just For Grins ................................47Save the Date ..................................48
Feature Article:Grady Woods Longhorns
A Foundation ResourceBy Henry King ..............................10-11
Articles:Feed Alternatives During Drought ..6
By Heather Smith ThomasDivision C Director Elections ........15
Jerry McAdams Horse & Cattle Art 16-17By Henry King
Heat Stress In Cattle ..................24-25By Heather Smith Thomas
Summer Problems-Water Quantity andQuality By Heather Smith Thomas ..32
Sales, Shows &Tours:
West Coast Sale ....................................12Heart Of Virginia Sale ........................26ITTLA Sale ..........................................34
About the Cover:This month’s cover features Jerry McAdams’ “King Of The Hill”, one of the tremendous works of
art that documents the beauty of the Longhorn. To find out more about Jerry McAdams and hisworks, turn to page 16 for the article.
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DIVISION C ~ REGIONS 13-18DIVISION B ~ REGIONS 7-12
September 2011 5
At-Large DirectorNancy Dunn(334) 318-0887
At-Large DirectorDora Thompson
(318) 872-6329 or (318) [email protected]
Region 1 - DirectorRon Walker(403) 548-6684
Region 2 - DirectorMark Stuck(540) 752-6831
Region 3 - DirectorScott Simmons
(618) [email protected]
Region 4 - DirectorCarl R. Brantley
(336) [email protected]
Region 5 - DirectorTerry King
(850) [email protected]
Region 6 - DirectorGene Juranka(337) 328-7258
CHARLES SCHREINER III*1964-1967
WALTER G. RIEDEL, JR.*1967-1969
J.G. PHILLIPS, JR.*1969-1971
WALTER B. SCOTT1971-1973
JAMES WARREN1973-1975
J.W. ISAACS*1975-1977
J.T. “HAPPY” SHAHAN*1977-1978
JOHN R. BALL1979-1980
BILL ANTHONY1981-1982
DR. L.V. BAKER1982-1984
DR. W.D. “BILL” CLARK1984-1986
RICHARD D. CARLSON1986-1988
JOHN T. BAKER1988-1990
RIEMER CALHOUN, JR.1990-1992
GLEN W. LEWIS1992-1995
TIM MILLER1995-1998
SHERMAN BOYLES1998-2003
BOB MOORE*2003-2005
JOEL LEMLEY2006-2007
BEN GRAVETT2007
DR. FRITZ MOELLER2007-2009
MAURICE LADNIER2009-2010
ROBERT RICHEY2010
STEVEN ZUNKER2010-2011
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Chairman: Dr. Bob KroppOklahoma State University
Dr. Harlan RitchieMichigan State University
Dr. Bill AbleNorthwestern Oklahoma
University
Marshall RubleIowa State University
Dr. Charles McPeakeUniversity of Georgia
Dr. Scott SchaakeKansas State University
Dr. Randall GroomsTAES
Texas A&M University
Chairman of the Board:Brent Bolen • (602) 769-0900
Executive Vice Chairman:Lana Hightower • (903) 963-7442
1st Vice Chairman:Donnie Taylor • (936) 422-3155
2nd Vice Chairman:Dora Thompson • (318) 872-6329
Secretary:Scott Simmons • (618) 729-2004
Treasurer:Gary Bowdoin • (254) 640-0844
Director:Steven Zunker • (210) 827-3940
Director:Terry King • (850) 956-4154
At-Large DirectorLana Hightower
(903) 963-7442 [email protected]
At-Large DirectorBrent Bolen
(602) [email protected]
Region 7 - DirectorDonnie Taylor(936) 422-3155
Region 8 - DirectorBernard Lankford
(817) [email protected]
Region 9 - DirectorRobert Richey(325) [email protected]
Region 10 - DirectorGary Bowdoin(254) 640-0844
Region 11 - DirectorLarry Smith(281) 935-2811
Region 12 - DirectorSteven Zunker(210) 827-3940
At-Large DirectorSteve Quary(405) 567-3093
At-Large Directorvacant
Region 13 - DirectorL.D. McIntyre
(308) 750-8384 or (308) [email protected]
Region 14 - DirectorJim Rombeck(785) 562-6665
Region 15 DirectorRandy Briscoe(405) [email protected]
Region 16 - DirectorDoug Hunt
(435) [email protected]
Region 17 - DirectorTerry Fuhriman
(208) [email protected]
Region 18 - DirectorRay Beadle
(408) [email protected]
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On dry years or poor grass years, it can be
difficult to provide adequate feed for cat-
tle. Some alternative feeds are more fea-
sible than others, depending on your location
and how much freight cost is involved in haul-
ing the feed. Ron Torrell, Area Livestock Spe-
cialist, 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 flex-
ibility 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 look-
ing at baled corn stalks out of southern Idaho,
but it’s not that good a feed. Most of the nutri-
ents 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 al-
falfa 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
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 vari-
able, 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, partic-
ularly 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 mi-
crobes 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 compe-
tition 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 inter-
val—a short breeding and calving season. “If
you have a short calving season you can sort the
cattle and manage the wintertime nutrition pro-
gram 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 re-
quirements 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 cer-
tainly don’t want to be feeding a bunch of in-
ternal 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 vi-
tamins 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 health-
ier 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
6 Texas Longhorn Trails
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8405 FM 1361 • Somerville, TX 77879
979-272-3600 home • 281-541-1200 cell
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Box Z Ranch - Steven Zunker & Louis Christa1506 Harwood Road, Luling, TX 78648Ranch mobile (210) 827-3940www.boxzranch.com
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Rio Vista Ranch - Elmer & Susan Rosenberger4818 Eck Lane, Austin, TX 78734(512) 266-3250 Cell: (512) 422-8336e-mail: [email protected]
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a boost with Butler genetics!
ewton County, Texas is on the border with Louisiana, ashort distance inland from the Gulf of Mexico in the upperreaches of the Big Thicket. One of the American settlers in
what was then a colony of Mexican impresario Lorenzo de Zavalawas Joshua Westbrook, who in 1835 established a homestead onLittle Caney Creek. Joshua served with the Confederacy duringthe Civil War, and after those disastrous years worked hard to getreestablished. Like many Texans, Joshua Westbrook’s way backfrom financial hardship came through the abundance of wild cat-tle that he gathered from the river bottoms of the Neches andSabine. Descendants from that herd would become the legacy ofhis great-great grandson, Grady Woods, who registered 30 TexasLonghorns with the TLBAA when the registry was formed in1964.
Grady Woods was the son of Alice Westbrook Woods andthe grandson of John D. Westbrook. His grandfather gave himtwo Longhorn cows and a Longhorn bull when he was twelveyears old, and he continued to raise Texas Longhorns when hisneighbors were raising the more popular English breeds. Grady,however, inherited a love for things historical and for this line ofLonghorn cattle, and it was his intent that they would survive asliving examples, not just with words and legends.
In addition to becoming a charter member and listing cattlein the startup of the Texas Longhorn registry, Woods also soldcattle to such foundation breeders as Milby Butler and GravesPeeler. While most of the cattle from the Woods line have beenintegrated into the universal population of the Texas Longhornbreed, a handful of committed ranchers see value in keepingthem as a separate family.
In an article that was a part of the 1996 TLBAA BreedersHandbook, Dr. Phillip Sponenberg spoke of the millions of TexasLonghorns that ranged the area in the late 1800s, before thebreed nearly became extinct. He makes the point that those mil-lions are not what became today’s Texas Longhorn. “What be-came the modern Texas Longhorn are those few herds that werecarefully tended through the lean years. These foundations areimportant to the breed, for they shaped what the breed is andwhat it can become.”
“Only a few families kept herds of Texas Longhorns throughthe lean years. Each of these lines was assembled from local cat-tle, so the breed was able to have a sampling of the geographic va-rieties of the original breed. The family lines that persist or wereimportant to the foundation of the present breed include GradyWoods, Milby Butler, M.P. Wright, Emil Marks and Cap Yates.
Other strains were assembledfrom a broader geographicalrange, and are more compositethan the first five. The com-posite strains include WildlifeRefuge, Jack Phillips, andGraves Peeler.”
Speaking specifically ofthe Grady Woods cattle, Dr.Sponenberg’s article states:
“The Grady Woods
strain developed in deepEast Texas from local cat-tle. This bloodline was as-sembled in the late 1800sand early 1900s. Somecattle were spotted, somewere solid colors. Manyhad twisted horns. Thisline of cattle is impor-tant since it is the mosteastern of the founda-tion strains, although ithas had a minimal impact onthe modern breed. Very few if any of this strain of cattleremain, although it has made some impact on a few herds.”
“Originally, there were several families that kept the TexasLonghorn going,” Dr. Sponenberg said recently. “The seven iskind of an underestimate – there were probably more like ten,and several of those are extinct. With the Grady Woods, there’s abit of a remnant there, and it is important to save.”
The life work of Dr. Sponenberg is saving rare and endan-gered breeds. He earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine fromTexas A&M in 1976 and his PhD in Veterinary Medicine fromCornell University in 1979. Since 1981, he has been part of thefaculty at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Med-icine 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 trav-eled around the world studying rare and endangered breeds andmaking recommendations about how to establish conservationprograms that will help maintain genetic diversity in the animalpopulation.
Much of Dr. Sponenberg’s work has beenaccomplished through the American Live-stock Breed Conservancy, for which he is thetechnical programs director. The aim of theALBC is supporting rare breeds so the ge-netic diversity is not lost, leaving the worldwith a few highly specialized breeds se-lected for maximum output in food pro-duction. By studying breeds that evolvedin response to environmental and geo-graphic demands (landrace breeds),they expect to be able to meet unfore-seen future challenges that affect live-stock.
The largest herd of the remain-ing Grady Woods line is owned bythe Aycock family of Vancleave,Mississippi. As with the GradyWoods home place, their Three TRanch (for Ted, Todd and Tim)is just a short distance from theGulf of Mexico. The father, TedAycock, started the ranch
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when the boys werefive or six years old.He bought 80 acresand a few grade cattleright after he got outof pharmacy school.Some friends whowere ropers talkedabout the price ofroping steers, so hedecided to get a
Longhorn bull and raise ropers. Thenhe 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. Sealsbought them from Grady and hauled them to Poplarville, Mis-sissippi.” In partnership with Walter Forrest, Ted bought thesmall herd of Longhorns, all of which had Grady Woods’ brand-- the Rocking H.
Ted Aycock became a TLBAA member in 1979 (TLBAA num-ber 546). Not really knowing what he had, in 1981, he took threepairs to a registered sale in Nacogdoches, Texas. The small-framedcows with the corkscrew twist horns were not of any majorbloodline; their pedigrees traced back to “Unknown Texas Long-horn” on their certificates, and Ted was uneasy about how theywould be received. To his surprise, all three pair sold for morethan $2,000, which was well above the sale average. After talk-ing to the late Jack Phillips and several other ranchers, he beganto realize the importance of the Grady Woods bloodline. Phillipstold Ted, “These cattle look more like the cattle I saw as a kidthan any I have seen in a long, long time.” Phillips also boughta bull from the Aycocks.
DeWitt Meshell attended the Nacogdoches sale and calledTed Aycock and Walter Forrest the next week and asked if theyhad any more of those cattle to sell. They responded by sendingDeWitt pictures of cattle they had to offer. Aycock has beenquoted, “He immediately offered $3,000 each and bought all ofthem for himself and later leased Luke’s Redneck. His interestand that of several other breeders we talked with started a chainof events that bought the history and traditions of these Woodscattle to the surface.”
“I saw the way the industry was going in creating biggercows, longer horns, flat horns – they were doing things that did-
n’t seem to fit the breed. I realized somebody needed tostep back – at a cost – and maintain a herd of cattle thatdepicted what they were years and years ago. And that’swhat 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 atthat time. Todd and Tim wanted to keep several of the heifersto breed back to our Woods bull and show the industry
Woods genetics. We’ve tried tomaintain a genetically pureLonghorn herd, and I havedone so for roughly 25 years.”
“We have followed Dr.Sponenberg’s recommenda-tions fairly close the past fewyears. We have used differentbulls out of our herd andkept heifers sired by each ofthe bulls. That, I think, is
what Dr. Sponenbergrecommended that wedo. We didn’t followthe plan of action ex-actly as he said, butwe have followed itpretty close.”
After talking to JackPhillips that time at the Nacogdochessale, Ted began to realize he had something unique;something that nobody else had. He started doing research toverify some things to the best of his ability.
“These cattle looked different from most of the others,” hesaid. “They’ve got a little bit different characteristics – smallframes, small muzzle, clean underline, long switch, twistedhorns. The bulls’ horns are what we call functional. A true Long-horn bull’s horns go out and up so he can defend his herd andfight off predators and other bulls. Traditionally, they were bredup in the wild and the best and strongest survived.”
A cornerstone of the 3-T Ranch program is a bull calledLuke’s Redneck. The AI Certified bull came into the Aycocks’ownership as a calf in the original herd purchase. Although hehas been dead 17 years, his semen is selectively used to perpetu-ate and concentrate the historic Grady Woods bloodline. Severalof his sons have also been used as herd sires.
“It’s been 25 or 30 years, but we’ve stayed the course and Ithink we’ve got a genetically pure herd of Texas Longhorn cattle.We’ve got 30 to 35 mother cows, some steers and three or fourbulls. One of the bulls is loaned out, and we may loan a couplemore. We don’t have a huge herd, and we don’t have the groundto maintain a large herd. We’ve done the best we could to holdon to these cattle, to keep them as pure to the Longhorn charac-teristics as we could…and I think we’ve done it!”
“Danny Guffey (Easy G Ranch) bought some Woods cowsand leased a bull; we also partnered with Carl Brantley fromWilkesboro, North Carolina on eight heifers; he bred them to adifferent bull and he’s going to breed back with semen we col-lected from Luke’s Redneck. A few other people bought cattlefrom us and have this bloodline, but they put different bulls onthem…they haven’t kept the bloodline pure. We’ve struggledalong trying to maintain a genetically pure herd, and we havebeen pretty much on our own except for Carl.”
Tim Aycock mentioned a telling insight on the value of her-itage genetics. The US Department of Agriculture maintains theNational Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, one of thelargest and highest quality genebanks in the world. It preservesmore than 500,000 samples of genetic materials of crops, live-stock and agriculturally important microbes. This collection rep-resents a special heritage for the future and an important piece ofglobal food security. A representative contacted Tim regardingthe purchase of embryos and DNA samples of the Woods cattle.They also sold a hundred straws of semen to the American Live-stock Breeds Conservancy.
A Texas Longhorn herd whose past history can be traced topost-Civil War Texas; a herd whose genetic package is uniquelyrich in foundational bloodlines; a herd whose heritage is pro-tected in a virtual Fort Knox of genetic resources is certainly aherd whose owners deserve a special applause for their dedica-tion to preservation.
Todd and Tim grew up with these cattle and intend to main-tain the program their father started. As stated by Todd, “We areraising the kind of cattle your grandfather would recognize.” Andas Ted said, “…we’ve stayed the course.”
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Average Top 5 lots: $4,100Average Top 10 lots: $3,140Average 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, ORPanther Creek Ranch, Marlin, TX
June 25, 2011AurorA, oregon
Auctioneer: Bill le’An,HumAnsville, missouri
Pedigree reAder: Justin
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HIGH SELLING LOT: $7,200
BL Mazue’s FancyConsignor: Justin & Julie Hansen,
Paskenta, CA Buyer: Kathy Kittler, Carlisle, AR
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OTHER HIGH SELLING LOTS: $3,600 – FIELD OF FORGETConsignor: Daniel & Angelina Fey, Yamhill, OR.Buyer: Joe & Lorinda Valentine, Marlin, TX.
$3,400 – 026 HCC QUANAHConsignor: Alexandra Dees, Harper, OR.Buyer: Searle Ranch, Monument, CO.
$3,200 – HUNTS SISTERS RESPECTConsignor: Justin & Julie Hansen, Paskenta, CA.Buyer: Doug & Dianne Hunt, St. George, UT.
$3,100 – JUST RESPECT 22/03Consignor: Justin & Julie Hansen, Paskenta, CABuyer: Joe & Lorinda Valentine, Marlin, TX.
Sale report and pictures submitted byDaniel Fey
WEST COAST TEXAS LONGHORN SALE 2011
T he 2011 West Coast Texas Longhorn Sale was held on June 25, 2011 at Lone StarRanch in Aurora, Oregon. The Friday night social was a lot of fun with deliciousfood, 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 RockyMountains!
The Northwest Longhorn Association would like to thank all those who made the2011 West Coast Texas Longhorn Sale a success!
Daniel Fey, Yamhill, OR; Alexandra Dees,Harper, OR
Annie Hutchinson & Dayton Preble,Beavercreek, OR
Jeremy & Charissa McCullock, Wallowa, OR Julie & Justin Hansen, Paskenta, CA; JustinRombeck, 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
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1. Bill & Sandra Buck, Krum, TX; 2. Johnnie Robinson, Celina, TX with TLBAA's Rick Fritsche; 3. TLBAA's Pam Gallowaywith Tom Herzog & Kim Schweers, O'Neill, NE; 4. Roger Greer, Iredell, TX; 5. TLBAA's Amber LeBlanc with Stacy Martinez,Grandview, TX; 6. Ronny Meadows, Paradise, TX; 7. Rodney Mahaffey, Decatur, TX with TLBAA's Pam Galloway; 8. TommyHope, Bonham, TX; TLBAA's Laura Standley; Ed Jeffcoat, Bokchito, OK; 9. Samuel Faske, Somerville, TX; Rachel Faske,Somerville, TX; Miriam Faske, Somerville, TX; Hannah Faske, Somerville, TX; Haley Horn, Springtown, TX; Lydia Faske,Somerville, TX; Taylor Frontera, Red Oak, TX; Jonah Faske, Somerville, TX; Tarah Moore, Hico, TX; Sarah Faske, Somerville,TX; Julia Faske, Somerville, TX; West Ryan, Danbury, TX; Nathaniel Faske, Somerville, TX.; 10. TLBAA Board Member ScottSimmons, Medora, IL with TLBAA's Amber LeBlanc; 11. John and Mark Miller, Fort Worth, TX with TLBAA’s Amber LeBlanc.
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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 fromLeadership Camp which was held in Fort Worth, Texas this year. We toured the Historic Stockyards, andvisited the TLBAA Office. Our theme for the 2011-2012 Show Season is “Horns, Hides and Great BigStrides.” This year, we will be celebrating the anniversary of the 25th World Show, which is certainly a “BigStride.”
During the last few years, we’ve chosen a service project to help. This year we will be helping Texas Scottish Rite Hospital inDallas, Texas. The hospital is for children with pediatric orthopedic conditions and certain related neurological disorders. Theyopened their doors to children in 1921 and are run completely on donations. Your officers and directors thought this would be agreat service project because it also goes with the “Great Big Strides” part of our theme. We hope to possibly invite some of thepatients to our 2012 TLBT World Show.
Typically the State Fair of Texas and Horn Showcase have been heldon the same weekend and people had to choose which event they wouldbe attending. This year, that is not the case, so make plans to attend bothevents if you can. The Horn Showcase committee has invited the youthto get involved. We will be having a fundraiser called “Pen Pals.” If youare interested in volunteering to help feed and water animals and dosome cleaning of pens, please contact Hannah Faske [email protected]. She will need to know when you can workand what size t-shirt you need. We hope to have a good turnout for thisevent.
I look forward to seeing each of you at upcoming shows and sales. Ifyou have any ideas or opinions, please do not hesitate to talk to one ofyour officers or directors. We hope to make this a year a great year for all!
See You on the Trail,
Sarah FaskeTLBT President
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TLBT Office: Senior DirectorAge: 17 years oldSchool: Home SchoolNumber of Years in the TLBT: This is my fourth year to be a
member of the TLBT.
When and how did you start raising and show-ing Texas Longhorns?I am adopted from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2008.When I came home, my family was already showingTexas Longhorns. After watching them show, I wantedto show also.
What are some important things you havelearned from showing and raising Longhorns? I have learned to be more respectful to my parents andothers. I have become more responsible through workingwith and caring for my calves. I am also learning aboutleadership responsibilities. I believe that participatingin the TLBT has helped me to become a better person.
What would you tell someone just getting start-ed in raising Texas Longhorns? I would tell them it is a lot of fun, and you can learnfrom it too. You can make many friends as well.
What is your favorite part of raising and show-ing Texas Longhorns?My favorite part of raising and showing Longhorns isshowmanship. I like showmanship best because youcan’t control what your animal looks like or what thatjudge’s opinion is, but you can always present yourselfand your calf to the best of your ability. I also likemeeting new friends and spending time with myLonghorn family.
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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 willgive out over $280,000 in scholarship money to our youth members. Larry Barker kept our youth busyall 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 theWorld 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 ITLAand TLBAA associations working together in the team penning event. The same kids competed inthe 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. Pleasesubmit 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 October13-16. We, as always, need your help to continue to make this a great event. We appreciate everyone who con-signed to the sale, making it over 100 lots. Now is the time to join in as sponsors, exhibitors and spectators. The success ofthe 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,
Brent
From the Chairman of the Board
Coming up for nominations soon will beall 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 Member-ship Meeting which will be held in FortWorth, Texas on January 13, 2012.According to the TLBAA By-Laws, Section
2—D:At least ninety (90) days prior to the An-
nual Membership Meeting, the TLBAA Officeshall mail to the Active and Lifetime Membersa request for nomination of individual or in-dividuals for Director in the member’s repre-sentational region. Such membernominations shall be received in the Associa-tion office no later than sixty (60) days priorto the Annual Meeting. In order that anymember nominee be eligible to be placed onthe election ballot, he must receive write-innominations from five (5) members who areActive or Lifetime Members. Should there beno members nominated by the membershipfor a particular Region, or should a nomineedecline to have his name placed on the ballot,the Board of Directors will appoint an Activeor Lifetime Member in good standing domi-ciled within the division to fill the vacant po-sition at the same meeting as the election ofTLBAA officers.
No less than forty-five (45) days prior tothe annual meeting of the membership, theTLBAA Office or designated CPA firm shallmail official printed ballots to each qualifiedActive and Lifetime Member in good stand-ing of that region or division. This ballot shallcontain the names of the candidates, if any,who were properly nominated by members.All written ballots must be returned to theCPA with a postmark not less than twenty-one (21) days prior to the Annual Meeting inorder to be validated and counted. All ballotsreceived will be validated and counted by anindependent CPA firm or other organizationexperienced in voting tabulation as desig-nated by the Executive Committee.The nominees receiving the most valid
votes shall be elected. All newly elected Di-rectors shall be installed at the Annual Mem-bership Meeting. A tie vote will be broken bythe Chairman of the Board drawing one ofthe names by lot.If a nominee wants a recount of the ballots
in their election race, they will have to submita formal request for a recount to the Board ofDirectors but not more than sixty (60) daysafter election results have been announced atthe annual meeting. The contester or theirrepresentative would then physically go to theCPA firm and watch this recount at his/hercosts.
Active and Lifetime members in goodstanding, domiciled within a representationaldivision or region may nominate an Active orLifetime member in good standing, alsodomiciled therein for election to the Board ofDirectors. Only those Active or Lifetime Mem-bers in good standing, domiciled within thedivision or region, may vote for the nomineesfrom that division or region. Elections areheld annually by division, on rotating basisas selected by the Board of Directors.
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Creativity seems to come naturally to Jerry McAdams, whetherit is expressed in images he paints with a brush on canvas or im-ages he generates with words in your mind. He was trained to dothe latter and has a degree in journalism from Texas Christian Uni-versity to prove it. The painting expertise is native talent, honedand 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 nowa civic presence in Hico, Texas. He played high school football, rantrack in college, then combined his interest in sports with his jour-nalism degree to land his first job after college as a sports writerfor 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 spe-cialized in coverage of the people and horses involved in the race-track 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 journalismtraining. I went to work with the horse magazine and had a lot offun times. Ben Hudson and I worked together at the Quarter Rac-ing Record until 1975, when we left and started a magazine of ourown.”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 in-dependently-owned publication serving the Running QuarterHorse business. The printed monthly edition is now supplementedwith 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 nu-merous writing, photography and advertising art awards, includinga national ADDY Award from the American Advertising Federa-tion.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 paint-
ing in high school; sitting in class doodling and drawing instead ofpaying attention a lot of times. But I always liked doing it. After Igot out of college, I wound up in the magazine business and useda lot of art in page design, graphics and photography. I did lots ofphotography when I was covering sports in school; then in themagazine business I did lots of livestock photography. I dabbledwith painting a little bit for a few years there in the ‘70s, and solda few paintings in a gallery in Ruidoso. That was the first time I gotany income from it.”His paintings have also graced the covers of nationally distrib-
uted magazines such as The Cattleman, America’s Cutter and TheGulf Coast Cattleman. The National Cutting Horse Associationhas used them on posters and publications, and they have beencover art for sale catalogs of the Ruidoso Horse Sale and WesternBloodstock Sale.Even after selling some paintings in the 1970’s through the Rui-
doso 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 afew paintings just for my own amusement – I did a few cow paint-ings that a friend of mine saw at my house and told me I ought totake them over to the cutting horse show there in Fort Worth. Hesaid those people liked anything with a cow in it, so I took a fewover there in 1996 and sold them. Then I took a few more the nextyear and sold those. It kept growing and became a fairly decentsupplement 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 areceptive market at the trade show for sixteen years.
“I usually sold enough through the cutting horse show that I did-n’t have much inventory left. I sold regularly to people from Aus-tralia, Venezuela and Canada who became repeat customers and stillcontact me from time to time. We’ve had buyers from California toFlorida and across the Midwest – we send a lot of stuff to nearlyevery state.”
“Here in the last several years, I’ve got more and more inquiriesabout Longhorn paintings, so I would do one or two Longhorns ayear, and they always seemed to sell pretty well. I started doing morebecause they have a universal appeal whether people are in the cat-tle business or not.”
The McAdams family owns a Longhorn – “…kind of by acci-dent,” 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 totake this little Longhorn orphan calf, so we took him and raised himand cut him; kept him as a lawn ornament more than anything. He ishuge now, has a big spread of horns and I have used him as a modelin a lot of paintings.”
“That’s how sensible the cattle operation is at our place. Most ofour cows are picked for color and variety instead of production, butI make more painting them than I do breeding them. But the onlyLonghorn we’ve got is this old steer – he is a great big white, speck-led steer with a big wide spread of horns. He is real picturesque.”
Jerry’s wife, Fran, creates costume jewelry, and her web site saysthey have dogs, cats, horses, cattle, a donkey and guineas. “I’m afraidso,” laughed Jerry. “I try to have some productive livestock, but Fran,being a city girl, wanted at least one of every species and we woundup with a few oddities around the place, including the donkey.”
Fran is a retired Southwest Airlines flight attendant and currentlyan elementary school teacher. Their son, Bob, is fifteen years old.
“We had a son late in life,” said Jerry, “and wanted him to grow upin a small town, so we moved down here to Hico, which is far enoughaway from the Metroplex to stay small for a while and found some-thing we could do without having to leave town much. I’m aroundhere all the time, spend a lot of extra hours painting and taking careof our ranch south of town here, where we live.”
The first year or two after the move to Hico, Jerry commuted toFort Worth to take care of his duties at TRACK Magazine.
“This weekly newspaper came up for sale after we had been herea little while,” he said. “I got to looking at it and I thought that’s oneof the few things I have any actual training on how to do, so wewound up buying it.”
Under Jerry's ownership the little weekly newspaper has won morethan 60 awards from the West Texas Press Association and TexasPress Association, and in their division thisyear Jerry won
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 herein Hico. She got a job teaching school and has been doing that forabout a dozen years now. I fiddle with the newspaper every weekand paint with what free time I have left. And we watch our son growup in a small town, which was our goal here. It has been real worthit.”McAdams is an editor and publisher three days a week, and thereare activities throughout the week where he goes “because I want toanyway…school activities, ball games …with a camera, of course,because that’s what people in a small town want to see in a newspa-per.”
He is a school board member and works with the local boosterclub. “Having a newspaper gives me an excuse to attend somethingor a requirement to attend something, so just about everything that’sheld, I wind up being there.”
Jerry has a gallery arrangement with Blue Star Trading in down-town Hico.
“It’s a great big western furnishings store in a refurbished build-ing in the historic old downtown part of Hico – a really nice upscaleplace,” said Jerry. “They’ve got a gallery there and they made metheir resident artist a few years ago. It’s a lot easier to keep all mypieces over there than to sit somewhere else and man a separategallery of my own seven days a week. I’m kind of their exclusiveartist and they’re my exclusive outlet down here. It has worked outreal well.”
Visitors to Coopers Barbecue in the Historic Stockyards Area ofFort Worth may also be able to see McAdam’s paintings. “BarryCooper bought several of my paintings, and I made an arrangementto keep some others on display in their VIP party room. There are sixor eight of them there.”
With a photographer’s eye for composition, McAdams bold, largescale acrylic paintings are sometimes whimsical and always colorful,with dramatic cropping and perspective. The subject matter is es-sentially contemporary ranch country, horses and cattle presented inhis unique style. In addition to his gallery inventory, McAdams alsodoes commissioned paintings using the client’s own livestock andranch scenes.
Eight or nine years ago Jerry and Fran bought 223 acres about tenmiles south of Hico. Before they started construction of their ranchhome, they built a metal building and finished the interior out like anapartment. They lived in it while they built the main house; the metalbuilding is now the artist’s studio.
“There’s a big plateau out there; it wasn’t very accessible, but wespent the impractical money to build a road and a building site ontop of it so we could have a great view. We can see Hamilton about20 miles away in one direction and Hico the other direction aboutten miles and no neighbors in sight. It’s a real peaceful place.”
“Longhorns are getting more popular around here. In the last tenyears or so around Hico I’ve noticed that people who had stockercows and beef cows have gradually worked some Longhorns intotheir pastures, too. There are more and more people doing that. I did-n’t realize there was such a resurgence in them. There are Longhornranches north of here and south of here and just about every direc-tion I travel now days.”
While McAdams may take his art seriously, the jovial artist does-n’t seem to take himself very seriously, as evident in his self-depre-cating humor. This carries over to his website, Jerry McAdams Horseand Cow Art Gallery, accessible through jerrymcadamsart.com. Be-cause of the growing interest specifically in paintings that includeTexas Longhorns, he has added another site. McAdams LonghornArt may be found, strangely enough, at mcadamslonghornart.com.
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October 13-16, 2011 • Fort Worth, TXA self-funding event by the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America
All exhibitors must be members of the Texas Longhorn BreedersAssociation of America. Allanimals must be registered with
the TLBAA. A copy of the animal’s registrationcertificate and entry fee of $100 for each category entered mustaccompany entry form for each
animal. A photograph must be includedwith each entry to be entered.
A photograph can bee-mailed to [email protected]
DIVISIONS totaL HorN, tIP to tIP & CoMPoSIte HorNBull & Female Divisions
Division I: oct. 31, 2010 - Nov. 1, 2009
Division II: oct. 31, 2009 - Nov. 1, 2008
Division III: oct. 31, 2008 - Nov. 1, 2007
Division IV: oct. 31, 2007 - Nov. 1, 2006
Division V: oct. 31, 2006 - Nov. 1, 2004
Division VI: oct. 31, 2004 - Nov. 1, 2001
Division VII: Nov. 30, 2001 & before
Division VIII Born 2005 & before
Steer Division
Category:
FOR MORE INFORMATION:TEXAS LONGHORN BREEDERSASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
P.O. Box 4430 • Fort Worth, TX 76164
Kim Barfield – 817/625-6241
� ENTRY DEADLINE:SEPT. 8, 2011 IN OFFICE
� NO LATE ENTRIES
� NO SUBSTITUTIONS
� SCRATCHES WILLNOT BE REFUNDED
� HEALTH PAPERS(No Exceptions)
� NO TRICH TEST ONEXHIBITION BULLS
Exhibitor’s Name__________________________________________________
Exhibitor’s TLBAA# _____________ Animal’s TLBAA # _________________
Animal’s Name __________________________________________________
Date of Birth ________ Division as specified above _____________________
$100 PER CATEGORY ENTRYCATEGORIES: TOTAL HORN TIP –TO–TIP COMPOSITE HORNEligibility for composite horn category requires entry in tip-to-tip and total horn categories$50 BRED & OWNED DIVISION
FORM OF PAYMENT: CASH CHECK CREDIT CARDCredit Card # ___________________________
VISA MASTERCARD DISCOVER Exp. Date _________ CID # _______
SATELLITE LOCATION__________________________________________
ENTRY FORM
For consignment & sponsorship check out www.tlbaa.org
BRED & OWNED DIVISIONFor 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.
CAN’T MAKE IT TO FORT WORTH??You can still be a 2011 HornShowcase Winner!! TLBAA is
offering satellite measuring acrossthe nation. Check out
www.tlbaa.org or contact theTLBAA today for more info.
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
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 maga-
zine 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.
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
RAWHIDER- $250� 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
DRAG RIDER - $75� A breeders guide ad size ad in the Showcase Program� Special recognition at all events
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 � CREDIT CARD# ____________________________________________________________________________
CARD TYPE: VISA MASTERCARD DISCOVER EXP. DATE:_______________ CID# ____________
NAME ON CARD: ______________________________________________________________________________
Mail or Fax Form to:Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of AmericaP.O. Box 4430 • Fort Worth, TX 76164Fax: (817) 625-1388 • Phone: (817) 625-6241
For more information on these packages, contact Kim Barfield at (817) 625-6241.
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Mossy Horn Sponsors:Bernard Lankford, Weatherford, TX • Sand Hills Ranch, Mansfield, LATriple 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, TXMike 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, LAT.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, TXVance & Cammie Farner, Niotaze, KS • Ron Walker, Redcliff, Albert, Canada
Dr. Lee & Linda Ragains, Sallisaw, OK • Kris Peterek, Weimer, TX
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
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SATELLITE MEASURINGS
October 1, 2011CONTACT: Joe Sedlacek
(785) 747-2204Location: Lazy J Longhorns,
Greenleaf, KS
October 1, 2011CONTACT: Chad Smith
[email protected] • (701) 590-9073Location: Gordon Howie Ranch,
Rapid City, SD
October 7, 2011CONTACT: Gail Moore
(559) 779-1455 • (559) 583-8115Location: CATL Satellite Measuring
Hanford, CA
October 8, 2011CONTACT: Mark Stuck
[email protected](540) 272-2564 • (540) 752-6831Location: Nel-Tam Longhorns,
Richland, PA
October 8, 2011CONTACT: Alexandra Dees
(541) 358-8787Location: CR Longhorns, Harper, OR
October 8, 2011CONTACT: Terry King(850) 956-4154
Location: Westville, FL
October 8, 2011CONTACT: Felix Serna or Della Serna
[email protected]@elcoyote.com
(361) 522-0807 • (361) 296-4275Location: El Coyote Ranch, Kingsville, TX
October 8, 2011 - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PMCONTACT: Doug Stotts
(713) 598-2220 • Please RSVPLocation: Rex Mosser/Doug Stotts,
Midway, TX
October 8, 2011CONTACT: Doug Hunt
(435) 680-4822 • (435) 275-2112Kent Bladen (801) 597-1774Location: Saint George, UT
October 8, 2011CONTACT: Dick Lowe (517) 688-3030
[email protected] Smith (616) 897-6235
[email protected]: Great Lakes TexasLonghorn Association Satellite
Measuring, Horton, MI
October 9, 2011CONTACT: Scott Simmons
(618) [email protected]
Location: Medora, IL
Exhibitor’s Name________________________________________________________________________________
Exhibitor’s TLBAA# ____________________ Animal’s TLBAA # ________________________
Animal’s Name ________________________________________________________________________________
Date of Birth ______________________
$100 PER CATEGORY ENTRY FORM OF PAYMENT: CASH CHECK CREDIT CARD
CATEGORIES: FEMALES (4-7 Years • 8-10 Years • 11+ Years) 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 [email protected]
TWISTY HORN CONTEST
Entry Deadline: September 8, 2011Females will be evaluated on color, conformation, horn & breeding abilities.
Steers will be evaluated on color, conformation, horn & wow factor.
NO TROPHIES - PREMIUMS AWARDED ON WINNER OF CLASS • Judges to be determined.
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The following information is required for each consigned animal at the 2011 Horn Showcase Sale and must be presented witheach 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 CATTLECertificate 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.
Sale Health Certification
Please send an acknowledgement to:Name ________________________________________Address ______________________________________City ____________________ State _____ Zip _______My Name _____________________________________Address ______________________________________City ____________________ State _____ Zip _______
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 AmericaFoundation, P.O. Box 4430, Ft. Worth, TX 76164.
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Dr. Don Spiers (University of Missouri) has been doing re-search on heat stress in cattle for many years. One of his proj-ects has been to use transmitters that tell you the animal’stemperature. “We are now using some of these devices that willtransmit about 300 feet. The transmitter is swallowed by theanimal and lodges in the reticulum. It transmits the temperatureas often as you want, to an antenna. We had a study last sum-mer where we had 3 different breeds of cattle in a pasture--andused an antenna to pick up the signals wherever the cattlewent,” he says.“You don’t have to put a transmitter in every animal. A per-
son could use sentinel animals that give you an idea of the heatlevel. We did one study, looking at what the determining factorsmight be for predicting how hot an animal will get in the sum-mer. We found that knowing the minimum core temperature forthat animal (which occurs at about 7 a.m.) is important for de-termining how hot it will get during the day, since heat is cu-mulative,” says Spiers. Individual animals tend to have different levels of heat reten-
tion. “We followed groups of animals and found that they seemto always have their own ranking. Animals that had low mini-mum temperatures always have low maximum temperatures,”he explains. This ranking is important in determining how thatanimal will respond to heat.“Another thing that determines how high their body temper-
ature will go during the day is how fast the air temperature risesin 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 hotit’s going to get.” If you know the minimum core temperature ofthe 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 res-piration rate. Anything below 40 breaths per minute is indica-tive 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 minuteand their tongues are sticking out and they’re drooling, theyhave a real problem,” he says. If you are moving cattle or work-ing them on a hot day and some individuals start panting rapidly,with mouths open and drooling, it’s time to halt and let themrest.Australian researchers developed a panting score index. A
booklet called Heat Load in Feedlot Cattle has been producedby the Meat and Livestock Association of Australia and discussesthe panting score index. Panting scores go from 0 to 5 and in-volve a combination of counting respiration rate, and observa-tions about what the cattle are doing. At 0 there is no pantingand the breathing rate is below 40. Score 1 denotes faster res-piration (40 to 70 breaths per minute) but the mouth is closedand there is no drooling. You don’t have to count for a fullminute to check respiration rate; you can count for 15 secondsand 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 themouth is still closed. At score 3 there is drooling, open mouthpanting (120 to 160 breaths per minute), the neck is extendedand the head is usually held upward. At panting score 4 thetongue is fully extended out of the mouth for long periods, withexcessive drooling, and the head is still extended upward, withbreaths more than 160 per minute. You can’t even count therespiration 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’sso dehydrated. At this point, risk of death is high. When theystart going into heat stroke they stop sweating because they aredehydrated 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 bodytemperatures were still high, but the cattle sweated less. It ap-pears to be more important to conserve water (minimize fluidloss, to prevent dehydration) than to maintain a constant bodytemperature,” he says. If an animal becomes too dehydrated, itwill die.Cattle always need adequate water. Spiers’ group did a study,
looking at dehydration. “The major indicator of dehydration isdecrease in feed intake. The cattle stop eating.” When theycan’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 dehy-drated their sweat rates went down. They didn’t have enoughmoisture to sweat.”Tammy Brown-Brandl at USMARC (Clay Center, Nebraska)
came up with a model to determine feedlot cattle susceptibilityto heat stress, looking at certain characteristics of the animal.Some of these criteria can also be applied to cattle out on pas-ture. She says there are 3 components to heat stress: the exist-ing environmental conditions (which include temperature andhumidity), the management practices of the producer (whethercattle have access to water, shade, etc.) and the susceptibility ofthe individual animal.She listed 11 characteristics and put them into a computer
model. First is color. A dark animal will be hotter than a lightcolored one. Second is sex. Heifers are more susceptible to heatthan steers, but this difference is very small. Third is species;Bos indicus are more heat tolerant than Bos taurus. Fourth istemperament. An excitable animal will overheat more quicklythan a calm one. Fifth is hair thickness. The thinly haired an-imals 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 ac-
climated. Seventh is age; an adult animal has more body massand more difficulty dealing with heat. Eighth is body conditionscore. Fat cattle have the most insulation and the most problemwith heat. Fat calves may suffer heat stress (as when cattle aremoved on a hot day) more quickly than their thinner mothers. Ninth is previous pneumonia. An animal that’s had pneumo-
nia may have lung damage and respiratory insufficiency—lessthan optimum air exchange and cooling via respiration. Tenthis 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 heatstress. This would allow a cattleman to put at-risk individuals ina different environment where they can be watched, or a placewhere 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 asimportant as species, or whether they’ve had pneumonia,” saysSpiers. Bos indicus (such as Brahman cattle) are always moreheat tolerant than Bos taurus, and cattle with any kind of lungdamage cannot breathe as easily to help dissipate heat.
Idaho Texas Longhorn Producers Assocation Dan Erskine, President • [email protected] 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" speak-
ers including, but not limited to, the Dickinsons, Searles, Hunts and RCALF reps of the industry. The individual sessions are short and education-al. The speakers are candid, experienced and humble. They can eliminate a lot beginning Breeders' mistakes and shortcut the time it takes tohave a profitable herd.
Darol Dickinson of Dickinson Cattle Company has been successfully marketing Longhorns via the Internet for some time. We now have anopportunity to emulate Darol and others by having a web page designed both professionally and economically. "Jamie" from the "HiredHand" 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 • [email protected] 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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Average price per lot - $898.4368 lots sold
VOLUME BUYERS:Jerry Loveday, E&L Texas Longhorn
Farm, Dandridge, TNJesse Austin, Cedar Ridge Farm,
Mineral, VARobert Beagle, Everett, PA
June 25, 2011
Blackstone,Va
auctioneer: Daniel lanier, lanier
auction serVices, Blackstone, Va
PeDigree reaDer: carl Brantley,
north WilkesBoro, nc
Highlights� � � � � � � � � �
HIGH SELLING LOT: $10,000
WD Lady RulerConsignor: Estate of Bill Derey Buyer: Jerry Loveday, E&L TexasLonghorn Farm, Dandridge, TN
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OTHER HIGH SELLING LOTS: WD CARMELA - Buyer: Mark & TammyStuck, Big Cedar Ridge, Summerduck, VA.Consignor: Estate of Bill Derey
Sale report and pictures submitted byHeart of Virginia Sale
Heart Of Virginia SaleThe 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 thissale and without their help, it would not have taken place. We hope to make this an annual sale at the BlackstoneLocation. Consignment forms will be coming soon!!
Jerry Loveday,Dandridge, TN withWD Lady Ruler.
Mark & TammyStuck,
Summerduck,VA with WD
Carmela.
TLBAA BoardMember CarlBrantley, NorthWilkesboro, NC;Tammy Stuck,Summerduck, VA;Daniel Lanier,Blackstone, VA.
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John Sharpe, formermanaging editor of theTexas Longhorn Trailshas written a mysterywhich surrounds thedisappearance of aChampion Longhornbull. Titled NO MOREBULL the mystery fea-tures veterinarian Dr.Gil Tailor. Tailor takesa temporary job in a
small Colorado town to escape hispainful past. But his past gets there first. When he is accused of killing his bestfriend, a Champion Longhorn bull, a win-ning race horse, half a herd of dairy cowsand one local son-of-a-bitch, he is forced tosave his reputation, career and eventually his
life in order to prove his innocence.According to Sharpe, “I started germinat-ing the idea for this book during all thoseyears my wife, Cy, and I traveled for theTrails. I’m addicted to reading and particular-ly like mysteries and westerns. I thought itwould be fun to combine the two. And if Icould add in Texas Longhorns, I’d have thebest of all worlds.”Set in today's West, this book is packedwith all the action and suspense you'dexpect from a story overflowing withLonghorn cattle, bucking horses, rough andtumble cowboys and cute but tough cow-girls. You'll want to go out for a drink withthese characters after you finish reading.Even if you've never been West, saddled ahorse or handled a lariat, Sharpe's writingputs you there and makes you feel like
you're one of the hands.John and Cy published a tabloid papercalled the Longhorn World before beingasked by the TLBAA to start the Trails for theTLBAA. Starting it in 1988, John acted asmanaging editor and Cy sold the advertising.“My days with the Trails were among ourbest,” says Sharpe. “We got to see the country,visit terrific people, and photograph andwrite stories about the legendary Longhornbreed. Longhorn breeders are among thegreatest people on earth.”The Sharpes left the Trails in 1991 to dealwith the illness of a family member. You canlearn more about NO MORE BULL whichwill be published in August of 2011 and catchup with John and Cy at http://johnsharpe-books.blogspot.com/. The author can bereached at (719) 646-4255
NEWS On the Trail...Former Trails Editor Pens Longhorn Mystery
By John Bradshaw, Courtesy of Livestock WeeklyLUCKENBACH, Texas — Ron Sitton has a pretty good job. He
spends his weekends in scenic Luckenbach, listening to live musicwhile tourists line up and pay him to photograph them sitting onhis 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 beenbroke to stand patiently while tourists waller up on them for aphoto, 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 afterthe other. After Sitton helps people up on his steer, he tightens theleft rein slightly and takes a wrap around the saddle horn. Thisturns Shotgun’s head so he is staring at the camera each time.Customers have the option of using their own camera and tip-
ping Sitton whatever they feel appropriate, which was generallyquite a bit, or for a reasonable fee he will use his equipment andhave 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 inTexas and around the world.” His definition is somewhat loose,because the frames are made of paper and the photos attached witha 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.”
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 photo-graph well, he said. Steers need to be at least two years old beforethey are broken, though he prefers they be four. Longhorns are stillfairly small at two, and he said they must be big enough for a manto 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 pulla 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 twoyears 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 theonly one they interact with.The other steers, those that are gentle and trained for the photo-
ops, are sold for $10,000. That price is more for a business than justa steer. Sitton has buyers spend a couple of days with him to learnhow to operate their Longhorn, as well as the business and finan-cial end of things.He is required to carry a million-dollar liability insurance poli-
cy, 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 numer-ous television shows and movies. He has worked alongside manystars 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 neverwould have otherwise.
Hill Country’s Ron Sitton Pays The Bills With Riding Longhorns
RON SITTON makes his livingin the Longhorn business, but
only one steer at a time. This par-ticular steer, Shotgun, rides like a
saddle horse but is content tostand patiently while tourist aftertourist has photos made on him.
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Elmore Family AdditionJohn & Christa Elmore are proud parentsof a new baby Boy! Roper Ray Elmore wasborn on June 20, 2011. He weighed 7 lbs.and 16 oz. and was 20.5 inches long. We
congratulate grandparents Randy &Shannon Steele and parents John &
Christa Elmore on the newest addition totheir family!
Welcome AdditionTo The Oliver Family
Congratulations to Mark & Jenae Oliveron the birth of their first daughter,
Wyleigh Belle Oliver, who was born July8, 2011 in Athens, TX. Wyleigh weighed 9lbs. and 11 oz. She measured 22.75”.Proud grandparents are John & BrendaOliver, Waxahachie, TX and Don &
Lauren Lampier, Ferris, TX.
Callicrate Cattle Co. will be authorized to process cattlewithin walking distance of where they were born and raisedon the rolling plains of Northwest Kansas after receiving agrant of inspection recently from the U.S. Department ofAgriculture.
A mobile meat processing unit parked near St. Francis,Kan., will be used for on-farm processing of beef, lambs,goats and pigs. Most of the meat will be marketed throughthe wholesale and retail outlets of Ranch Foods Direct inColorado Springs.
The unit was on display last fall at Venetucci Farm dur-ing a live demonstration showing the public how it worksand 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 live-stock, which are routinely trucked hundreds of miles to large packing plants, according toMike 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 milescan reduce meat tenderness and quality substantially.”
The idea of creating a more locally based processing alternative to large meatpackingplants extends back at least two decades, according to Laura Krebsbach, a nonprofit con-sultant 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 live-stock producers who are still left in this country,” she says. “It just made sense for theNebraska Environmental Action Coalition to take on this project and build a unit in theMidwest, the heart of farming and ranching country, where we felt like we could do it bet-ter and more affordably. I am grateful to Mike Callicrate, who became involved in testingand certifying the model, for sharing his dedication, support and financial contributions.He sees the big picture and shares our vision.”
Mobile units cost less to build than brick-and-mortar facilities and are more flexiblebecause they can be moved between locations.
“While the demand for locally and responsibly raised meat is increasing, small farm-ers and ranchers who are best suited to fill that need have been losing access to customprocessors as the meat industry consolidates,” Krebsbach says. “We wanted to designsomething that was within the financial reach of rancher groups, nonprofits, co-ops or cut-and-wrap meat facilities. When you consider the carbon footprint, the environmentalimpact and animal welfare issues, as well as giving the producer more control over hisproduct and putting more money in his pocket, this approach just makes so much sensefor so many reasons.”
USDA approval was officially granted on May 9. USDA inspection allows the meat tobe sold in wholesale and retail markets across the U.S. and internationally. Only a fewmobile meat processing units have been certified nationwide.
Manufacturer Jerry Eisenmenger, who comes from a ranching family and now ownsFlat River Corp. of Columbus, Neb., is busy building two more models, and the NebraskaEnvironmental Action Coalition is providing no-cost assistance to ranchers and NativeAmerican tribes who have expressed interest in the concept.
“Mobile meat processing can be an important component in rebuilding local andregional food systems, a primary objective of USDA’s Know Your Farmer, Know Your Foodcampaign. Both Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan providedcritical support in turning this project into a reality,” Callicrate says.
“Secretary Vilsack helped usher us through this process,” Krebsbach adds. “He deservesa lot of credit for being able to look down the road and see that we need to rebuild ruralcommunities by bringing back the infrastructure for small producers.”
The unit can process up to 15 to 20 cattle per day with a USDA meat inspector over-seeing the processing of each animal. That compares to large plants where inspectors mon-itor fast-moving lines that process an animal every 8 to 9 seconds. More information aboutthe mobile processing concept, including photos and videos, are available atwww.MobileMeatProcessing.com. Or contact Mike Callicrate by calling 785-332-8218.
Mobile Meat Processing UnitAchieves USDA Certification
Ranch Foods Direct demonstrated the mobile meat processing unit last Novemberat Venetucci Farm south of Colorado Springs. The unit received a grant of inspec-tion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 9. It will allow livestock to
be processed right on the farm instead of being transported long distances.
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A dependable supply of water for cattle is extremely importantin summer. Cattle always drink more during hot weather. A1200-pound dry cow might drink about 10.5 gallons per day, anda lactating cow might drink up to 30 gallons per day, but bothwill drink more if weather is hot and they are trying to cool them-selves by sweating. Water availability is very important, but so is water quality. If
the water becomes contaminated by urine and feces—as when cat-tle have access to a pond—the cattle may not drink as much, andmay also be at risk for disease. Some diseases, such as lep-tospirosis, can be spread by urine. Coccidiosis, E. coli, salmonellaand 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 trampleand degrade the banks of the stream or pond—and muddy andcontaminate the water. Cows often wade out as far as they can, toget to cleaner water, but small calves generally drink from thebank or shallow areas—and won’t drink much if the water is dirty.Research trials have shown that calves drink more water (and havebetter growth) if it is clean, rather than when they only have ac-cess to water that has been muddied and contaminated by thecows.This problem can be solved by fencing off the stream or pond.
If you limit cattle to a controlled watering area—or to a troughwhere water has been piped from the stream or pond—ratherthan letting them wade into the water source, they will benefitfrom cleaner water and won’t damage the riparian area by tram-pling the banks and eating all the vegetation. Rocks can be hauledin to protect the bank at the access area where the cattle enter thewater, 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 completelyand pipe water by gravity flow or via pump to a water trough ortank. A float valve can regulate the flow into the tank. Windmillshave often been used for pumping water into a tank, and solar-powered 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
pump water for themselves and you don’t have to depend onwind or solar power. The nose-pump works in cold weather be-cause it never freezes up (even down to 40 below zero) and solvessummer water problems because cattle always have plenty of cleanwater. Jim Anderson, at Rimbey Alberta created this simple water sys-
tem in which cattle pump their own water from shallow wells orponds. His innovation is a piston pump, like the old-fashionedwell in which a person works the handle up and down to liftwater. "We modified this so cattle could use their nose to push alever. This operates the piston pump by raising and lowering thepiston in the cylinder, the same as a handle used to do. Like theold-fashioned hand pump, we have a 3-inch cylinder down in-side the well. We capture enough geothermal heat from theground 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 has2 feet sticking above ground level, going down to whatever depthis required to make use of ground water or the bottom of a nearbypond (water from the pond is piped horizontally underground tothe bottom of the culvert). A buried collection tank from a springwould work also. A regular well can be used, as long as the waterlevel 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 atleast 20 feet. The 2 factors that determine how much geothermalheat you'll gain is how deep you go, and how big a pipe you taketo that depth. The bigger the pipe, the more opportunity for heatto rise, to keep the water pipe in the center warm enough to neverfreeze,” 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 vegetationgrowing along the banks to keep them stable. Due to environ-mental concerns about riparian areas and water quality, this is aperfect solution for providing water for cattle.
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Reserve Grand Champion Free Range FemaleDDL MISS COWPOKESand Hills Ranch,Dora Thompson, Mansfield, LA
Reserve Grand Champion Mature Free FemaleHL SHADOWS SAND PLUMCactus Rose Longhorns,Danny and Merrilou Russell, Edna, TX
In the August 2011 Trails magazine, the photos of th
e Reserve Grand Champion Free Range
Female and the Reserve World Grand Champion Mature Free Female were labeled incorrectly.
We apologize to the winners and congratulate you on your success.
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I N B O XAs the editor, I receive various interesting photosalong with explanations either through the mail ore-mail. I would like to share some of them withyou inside the Trails magazine each month. If youhave an interesting tid-bit or photo that may not besuitable for “Just for Grins”, please send them to
me. You may end up in the next issue of the Trails!
These Longhorn heifer twins were born June22, 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 Ranchin Comanche, TX. The Edwards Ranch is
registered by the State of Texas as a CenturyRanch, since it has been in continuousagricultural production by one family for
more than 100 years. There have been cattleon the ranch since it’s founding in 1886 andRegistered Longhorns have been since 1982.
No twin Longhorn births had beenpreviously recorded.
UJ Miss Honey Bee was purchased from JoeKeatley at the Fort Worth TLBAA Sale inSeptember 1998. WR 2549 was purchasedat the Wichita Mountains Wildlife REfuge
in September, 2001.Dam, sire and twins are all doing well.
First Longhorn Twins BornSubmitted by Hilda Bolling Edwards
Edwards Ranch
15th Annual ITTLA Sale ResultsSpecial Thanks to Ron Marquess
for his support and generosity tothe ITTLA.
Special Thanks to WesleyWatson for his continued support tothe ITTLA Sale and for his eager-ness to enhance pedigree detailsand work with the auctioneer toattain the best prices possible.
Special Thanks to Eddie Knoll forhis support and generosity to theITTLA.
We would like to thank all of themembers who worked, donated andpurchased ads in the catalog. Thissale could not be done without yourcontinued support.
Also, thanks to the buyers of cat-tle at the sale this year. These buy-ers purchased some high qualitycattle this year at very reasonableprices and we think they will bevery happy with their purchases.
We had 19 consignors and 20different buyers this year, and wewould like to thank them all.
June 11, 2011Marietta, OK
auctiOneer: rOn Marquess,
Ben Wheeler, tX
Pedigree reader: Wesley WatsOn,
garvin, OK
HighlightsTotal lots consigned to Sale.....54
Total Scratched Lots.....4Total Number of lots PO’d....5
Total Lots Sold.....45
Average Price for Top 5 Selling Lotswas: $ 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 27Consigned by: Bob Loomis
$1,300 – LOT 51Consigned by: Bob Loomis
$1,125 – LOT 39Consigned by: Bob Loomis
$1,050 – LOT 19Consigned by: Darlene Aldridge
$1,025 – LOT 38Consigned by: Wes Watson
Sale report submitted by ITTLA
Brent & Ruth Weinstein of Longhorn WRanch of Metairie, LA submitted this photoof “Red Bull” cooling off. He is the son ofWorld Champion Overwhelming Toro andSandy Sue. This bull has the right idea for
these long, hot summer days.
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PRE-CATALOG CONSIGNMENT FORM
Name of TLBAA Member: __________________________________ TLBAA# ______________
Name of Animal: __________________________________________ TLBAA# ______________
_____ Heifer _____ Cow _____ Pair _____ Bull _____ Steer
BREEDING INFORMATION
Cow Exposed To ________________________________ From __________ To____________
Cow Exposed To ________________________________ From __________ To____________
Calf at Side Information: Sex ________________ Date Calved______________
Sired by ________________________________________________
COMMENTS________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
WAIVER/CONSENT FORM(This form must be signed and returned in order to complete your consignment)
The Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America (TLBAA) assumes no responsibility for any guaranteemade by the consignor. All guarantees are strictly between the consignor (seller) and the buyer. The TLBAA orthe auction venue is not responsible for the health or safety of any animal consigned to the sale. This includes lossof life, loss by theft or other perils. All consignors must comply with the rules and regulations. The undersignedhereby agrees to conditions of the sale and agrees that all guarantees are between seller and buyer.
The undersigned further agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the TLBAA, sale employees, the auctionvenue, and duly authorized representatives from any and all claims, demands, causes of action or liabilities of anynature which may arise from or in any way relate to the sale. The undersigned agrees that if the buyer is unableto accept delivery because of Interstate health requirements, the consignor, not the TLBAA or its management,shall be responsible for refund or adjustment.
_______________________________________________ ____________________________Owner of Animal/Consignor’s Signature Date
THIS FORM MUST BE ATTACHED TO ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE WITH COMPLETED TRANSFER FORM.
SPONSORED BY THE TEXAS LONGHORN BREEDERS ASSOC IAT ION OF AMER ICA
MANAGED BY THE TEXAS LONGHORN BREEDERS ASSOC IAT ION OF AMER ICA SALES MANAGEMENT D IV IS ION
PICTURE OF ANIMAL _____________
CONSIGNMENT FEES _____________$100.00 plus 5% ($50.00 Up Front for Pre-print Catalog)
OCV VACCINATED_______________
Bull’s Name
Bull’s Name
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Monthly Movers& shAkers
City SlickersSampson Creek Ranch
George and Laureen GenninTerry King
Gene A. JurankaBrian and Mary StahlShallow Valley Ranch
Don and/or Renee LoquiaoRuss Moore
Thomas MarkertBilly R. WalkerPatrick Neeley
Willis Bend LonghornsA and R Ranch
Allen Or Linda EvansClaude or Carole D. Lipscomb
Coolamon Grazing Co.Double D ArenaMark HubbellTerry RobertsMark FlinchumMozella Acres
Bronze By CooleyKhaos Cattle Company
Red Oak FarmCalvin DeemerCatherine HawkeDave HovinghDon ConstableDwain AguillardEddie C. Durr, Jr.Emily Ingram
Gary & Judy WaltersJanet E. Fowler
Jay Wachter & Susan WillardJesse & Gay Ann Majors
Larry F. OverbeckRick Bogle
Sand Hills RanchScott McDowellTom MehlbergWilliam Wick
Doug and Sandy StottsJohn T. & Betty BakerElias F. Hal Meyer, Jr.
Jonell Westerberg & Norman(Roger) Ridgway
Mason and Yvonne RomansBob Coffee
Rolling Creek RanchLee & Gay Gaddis
Fort Griffin State Historic SiteDale Land and CattleDubravka Romano
Edwin & Debra StojanikJim and Luann Blay
Linda JackBrent & Cynthia BolenRocking 'O' RanchDon & Rhonda Poe
Steve Day
Jerusalem Ridge RanchPanther Creek Ranch
Jim DornBill & Freida GoldenRio Vista RanchStar Creek Ranch
Mr & Mrs Joachim SchaabBobby Cox
Clark and Jill SmithJohnnie & Pat RobinsonVida Nueva RanchJimmy Brister
Red River Longhorn RanchCactus Rose Longhorns
David and Jo Anne NorwoodKay L. Roush
Terry and Sherri AdcockAsa GambleJohn Oliver
The Cattlerack RanchWes and Carol ChanceyBrad & Tiffany Scherer
Crossed T's Cattle CompanyDr. Gene and Lana HightowerJohn and /or Judy Coats
Ken KretzschmarLouise Reinert
Melvin & Alice FrenchRandy TschacherRex Mosser
Rodney & Patti MahaffeyRon & Kevin Asbill
Stephen and Karol HowellSwing'n Star RanchT.M. and Jean SmithTrigg & Traci MooreClinard LonghornsHarold & Kari GloverAnchor T Ranch
Art & Darlene SchimmelpfeningBack-N-Forth Longhorns
Brian BrettBruce & Karen Fisher
Carla PayneDarold & Barbara MeyerDavid & Lynda BradleyDon & Andrea BordelonDwain & Teresa GilliamGay Lazarine Thomas
Guthrie Creek Longhorn CattleHenry Roy Horton
Kathleen and Jeff HoffmanLoyd & Bettie Gibbs
Mike TaylorPaul or Lisa BrunsvoldProctor Ridge Ranch
Randy & Karen ReynoldsRandy & Shannon Steele
Ronald J. MartensRoss Ohlendorf
Schumacher Cattle CompanyStephen and Peggy Lee
Stephen P Head
William BuckBow CarpenterCraige BottorffDon Blansitt
El Coyote RanchJ.D. Mooney
Lindauer Longhorn CompanyMike and Kim MacLeodRon & Barbara Marquess
Russell E. Fairchild4-C Ranch
Area Historical MuseumBarbara Franklin Schmidt
Bob JacksonBrown's LonghornsClint Ray BirdwellCraig & Joyce Hester
David StanleyDeer Creek LonghornsDennis UrbantkeDonnie Taylor
Dos Arrows LonghornsDr. Scott E. IsdaleDr. W. Lou ShieldsEdwards Ranch
George and Cindy DennisGuy Warren III
Jim & Karen ReismanJody, Tonya & Patrick BeckJoe or Carolyn WisselJohn R. Randolph
JT WehringKate Morgan/ Jheroen
DorenboschKathryn Leann HeadKen and Patsy Wise
Ken HarrisKenneth JohnsonLonnie Shan
Matthew J. DurkinMatt Hill
Mike & Christy WilliamsRobert R. KingRobert S. GarnerRon & Linda Steele
Sandra K. Livingston & JimBownds PartnershipStruthoff Ranch
Talon Land and CattleTriple R Ranch
William T. & Sandra J. Martin
Carnahan RanchLawrence Morgan LonghornsBonnie & Rodger Damrow
Carole MuchmoreRandy and Jamie BriscoeRockin J Longhorns
Art AndersBuckhorn Cattle CompanyMelvin & Rebecca RhodesC C Land & Cattle Co
Jordan RanchTwo Heart Bar RanchBarbara J. FillmoreLovitt Longhorns
Mike & Debbie BowmanBob & Pam Loomis
Bruce RoseJeff and Sylvia KetelsenGrant & Jane MillerAlexandra Dees
Folsom Falls RanchJoel and Tamara Kuntz
R-B FarmRobert and Jenny SmootSulu Som're RanchPaul & Patti GilbrethThomas P Herzog
Gregg or Sandra Lynn SherwoodBethany Rosales
Charley E. and Doris SnyderDl Cattle Company
J5 LonghornsJeffrey L. & Sue L. McMahanRobert & Lisa Van Liew
Safari B RanchJeffrey Vonk
Kent & Sandy HarrellWesley Earl WatsonChris BandleyDaniel FeyDoug Hunt
Kenneth J. & Valerie J. WebbLeo & Jolene Omlin
McGill RanchMike and Carole KossPace Cattle Company
Todd and Kelli McKnightDavid A. Schmidt
Donald & Sharron WiensFive Star Ranch
Lucinda K. ChristianBrink LonghornsCraig Perez
David & Kimberly NikodymDr. Fritz & Rebecca Moeller
IWA RanchJill E. Bachus
Jim and Wanda TaylorJustin Hansen
Kent And Christine BladenLane Visser
Larry JohnstonL.D. and Debbie Mc Intyre
L/D LivestockMary Mann
Richard & Linda SpoonerRock Creek Cattle Co
Rodney LindRonna BryantRyan Welch
Stompin Brush FarmSusan Rowland
Tom and Molly St. HilaireW.R. Van Gundy
Division A Division B (cont.) Division B (cont.) Division C (cont.)
Registrations and Transfers from August 1, 2011 to August 31, 2011
Division B
Division C
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In 1964, a small group of concerned cattlemen banded together to preserve the unique
heritage of Texas Longhorn cattle. With this goal, they established the Texas
Longhorn Breeders Association of America (TLBAA) to maintain the breed registry and to promote the
magnificent breed to as many persons as possible.
Today, the purposes of the TLBAA remain the same. In addition, the Association has
expanded its membership services as the number of Texas Longhorn enthusiasts
has increased to an all-time high.
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� Youth Show Circuit and Youth Hall of Fame.� Strong World Qualifying Show Circuit and a World Exposition.� Hall of Fame.� Canadian show circuit for breeders in the North.� Weekly Internet newsletter, E-Trails.� Breed Advisory Committee of dedicated animal scientists.� Horn Showcase for official horn measurements.� Active Foundation Board to preserve the history of our association and the Longhorn breed.
� Yearly subscription to Texas Longhorn Trails monthymagazine.
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Monthly Breed Publication (Texas Longhorn Trails) 60.00
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Anchor D Ranchis consigning
2011 BULLS � WR Bloodlines
2011 HEIFERS � WR Bloodlines
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Tri-State Longhorn Sale/
Fort Robinson SaleNovember 20 • Crawford, NE
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Look for our consignments at the:
NTLA 30th Annual SaleOctober 29 • Beatrice, NE
For information contact
Dick Robbins Art Anders
Anchor D Ranch (308) 665-2457
(620) 862-5803
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TEXAS LONGHORN T•R•A•I•L•S
Spring Calving:1. Continue fly and tick controlprograms. Anaplasmosis problems cancontinue until frost, so observe cowherd closely for animals losing bodycondition and appearing anemic.Commercial supplements containing150 grams of chloretracycline per 50pounds of salt are available.Continuous feeding of the tetracyclinemedication during the fly season shouldprovide adequate protection against thedisease.
2. As grass matures, realize that theprotein value decreases. The feeding oftwo-to-three pounds of a high proteinsupplement (30-40 percent crudeprotein content) will stimulate thedigestion of the mature forage;therefore, the cattle will consume moreforage and will maintain their bodycondition as winter approaches.
TLBAA Breed Advisory Committee’s
September - Herd Management Guide3. Start thinking about weaning calves.If you are involved in a performanceprogram, at weaning the calves shouldbe weighed, weaning weights adjustedto a 205-day equivalent and weaningratios calculated.
4. Look closely at your cow herd. Anydefects, such as poor udders, etc.,should be recorded for culling purposesat weaning time.
Fall Calving:1. Prepare for the start of calvingseason. Separate cow herd intomanagement groups for the calvingseason (first-calf heifers, second-calfcows, mature cows and open heifers).Watch body condition of the groupsclosely. Young females entering theirfirst calving season require specialnutritional assistance to insure theymaintain a reasonable body conditionafter calving, produce adequate levels
of milk for their offspring and rebreedfor the coming year.
2. Watch first-calf heifers closely forpotential calving difficulty.
3. Weigh all yearling heifers and bulls,adjusting the weights to a 365-dayequivalent and calculate yearling ratios.Utilize the performance calculations asan aid in selection of your replacementheifers, if performance and growth areimportant selection criteria according toyour herd objectives.
4. Before breeding, all replacementheifers should be vaccinated withintramuscular IBR/BVD (modified livevirus), seven-way Clostridial bacterinbooster, five-way Leptospirosis,Vibriosis and dewormed with anacceptable internal parasite product.
5. Conduct breeding soundness examsand fertility checks on all bulls prior tothe breeding season. �
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BEAVER CREEK LONGHORNS- Check ournew Web site with "Super Sales" and herd-reduction prices. Tazman (Gunman) genetics.Carole Muchmore, Ponca City, OK (580) 765-9961, www.beavercreeklonghorns.com
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ADVERTISERS’ INDEXA
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Adcock, Terry & Sherri ..................44Almendra Longhorns....................42Anderson, Frank Jr. and III ............9Anchor D Ranch ............................40
B&C Show Me Sales......................27Bar H Ranch....................................42Beadle Land & Cattle ................8, 42Beargrass Ranch..............................43Best At West Sale ......................36-37Billingsley Longhorns ............23, 44Blue Mountain Longhorns ..........33Bond Ranch ....................................42Box Z Ranch................................8, 44Brett Ranch ......................................43Buckhorn Cattle Co. ..........8, 33, 43Bull Creek Longhorns ..............7, 43Butler Breeders ..............................8-9
C.C. Land & Cattle Co. ................42C R Ranches ....................................43Carpenter, Bo & Sylvia ..................44CedarView Ranch ..........................42Champion Genetics ......................41Concho Ranch ..................................9
Dalgood Longhorns ........................9Deer Creek Longhorns..................44Diamond Q Longhorns ..............43Diamond S Longhorns ................42Dick’s Ranch Supply ......................41Double LB Longhorns ..................44
Eagles Ridge Longhorns..................8El Coyote Ranch ........................1, 43End of Trail Ranch........................ 42ET Longhorns..................................42
4 T Longhorns ................................444 Star Ranch ....................................42
Gross, Ray ........................................40
Harrell Ranch ....................................8Helm Cattle Co. ............................43Hickman Longhorns ....................44Husky Branding Irons ..................41
J.T. Wehring Family Ranch ..........43Jack Mountain Ranch....................44Jane’s Land & Cattle Co. ................9Junction Hill....................................43
Kittler Land and Cattle Co. ..........42
Lazy L Longhorns ..........................33Lemley Longhorns ........................44Little Ace Cattle Co...........................8Lone Wolf Ranch ....................35, 42Longhorn Designs..........................35
Longhorn Roundup Auctions ....35Longhorn Sale Pen ........................34Loomis Longhorns ..........................9
Marquess Arrow Ranch ..............IBCMcLeod Ranch ..................................8Miller, Tim ......................................42Morgan Livestock ..........................40Moriah Farms..................................43Mosser Longhorns ........................44
Northbrook Cattle Co...................43No-Bull ............................................41
Panther Creek Longhorns ............44Pearl Longhorn Ranch..................44
R&R Ranch ......................................42Rafter H Longhorns..........................8Red Peak Ranch..............................44Rio Vista Ranch..........................8, 44River Ranch....................................IFCRocking G Ranch..............................9Rocking P Longhorns ......................8Rosebud’s Flatrock Ranch ............44Royal Heritage Farm......................42Running Arrow Farm ....................41
7 Bar Longhorns ............................43Safari B Ranch ................................43Sand Hills Ranch ............................31Semkin Longhorns ........................43Sidewinder Cattle Co.......................9Smith, T.M. & Jean ........................43Split Rock Cedar Ranch ..................3SS Longhorns..................................43Star Creek Ranch ..............................7Stotts Hideaway Ranch ........44, BCStringer, Lee......................................40Struthoff Ranch ..............................44
TLBAA Horn Showcase ..........19-22Tony’s Feed & Seed ........................40Triple R Ranch (MI) ......................42Triple R Ranch (TX) ..................9, 18Triple T Longhorns ........................43T Spur Longhorns ..........................42
Underwood Longhorns................42
V&J Longhorns..................................9Valley View Ranch ..........................31Vida Nueva Ranch ........................44
Walker, Ron ....................................44Westfarms, Inc...................................8White Rock Ranch..........................27Wichita Fence..................................35
YO Ranch ........................................41
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Save the date! Texas Longhorn Coming EventsTexas Longhorn Coming EventsSEPTEMBER 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 [email protected].
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 [email protected].
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 - longhornroundupauctions.com. Forms & information on website. Russell Hooks (409) 381-0616 or [email protected]
SEPT 24 • B&C Show Me Fall Longhorn Sale, Brookfield LivestockAuction, 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 [email protected]. 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 2011OCT 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 [email protected] or Pam Galloway [email protected].
OCT 15 • Horn Showcase Sale, Fort Worth, TX. Kim Barfield (817) 625-6241 or [email protected] or Pam Galloway [email protected]. Consignment deadline: Aug. 1, 2011,www.tlbaa.org.
OCT 21-23 • State Fair of Texas, Dallas, TX. Trigg & Traci [email protected] or (254) 796-4269 or (254) 396-5592. Entry deadline September 1. QualifyingHalterd & 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 [email protected]. Delwin Smeal (402) 568-2353 or Larry Long (308) 530-7272.www.beatrice77.net.
NOVEMBER 2011NOV 4-6 • Louisiana State Fair, Shreveport, LA. Donnie Taylor
(936) 414-1401. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth.
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 ExpoCenter, 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 2011DEC 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 [email protected]. Qualifying Haltered and Youth.
DEC 3 • TLBAA Best at West Membership Sale, West, TX. TLBAA (817) 625-6241 www.tlbaa.org.
JANUARY 2012JAN 14 • Texas Longhorn Premier Heifer Sale, West Arena, Fort
Worth, TX. Kim Barfield (817) 625-6241 or [email protected]
JAN 16-17 • Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, Watt Arena, Fort Worth, TX. Pam Galloway (817) 625-6241 or [email protected]. Qualifying Haltered &Youth.
FEBRUARY 2012FEB 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 2012MAR 2-3 • Longhorns & Lace Benefit & Sale, Red River Sale Barn,
Marietta, OK. www.longhornsandlacesale.com Tessa Wheeler Millsap, Improving Genetics, (254) 315-6548,[email protected]; Molly Clubb, Hired Hand Software, (319) 269-8903, [email protected].
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 2012APR 13-15 • TLBGCA Spring Show, Washington County
Fairgrounds, Brenham, TX. Susan Young, (713) 294-6334 or email [email protected]. Qualifying Haltered, Free and Youth.
APR 20-22 • Rockdale Spring Show, Rockdale, TX. Sandi Nordhausen (512) 898-2401 or [email protected] or Patsy Davidson (518) 898-0321 or [email protected]. Qualifying Haltered and Youth.
APR 27-28 • Midwest Longhorn Sale, Winfield, KS. Mike Bowman(316) 778-1717 or www.endoftrailranch.com.
MAY 2012MAY 4-5 • Red McCombs 32st Anniversary Fiesta Texas Longhorn
Sale, Johnson City, TX. www.redmccombslonghorns.comAlan Sparger - [email protected] or (210) 445-8798.
AUGUST 2012AUG 4 • Hudson-Valentine Invitational Longhorn Sale, Will RogersMemorial Center, Fort Worth, TX. Lorinda Valentine (254) 584-2218.
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