Animal Portraits - Texas Longhorn
SHOT 1/15/2002 - "BJ", a seven year-old male Texas Longhorn steer, weighs about 1,800 pounds and resides on Mark Richardson's MDR Farms in Morrison, Colo. Richardson said jokingly, "BJ is short for beef jerky if he ever horns one of us". BJ is part of a souvenir photo booth at the National Western Stock Show where kids can climb atop his back for a $5.00 photo. The Texas longhorn is a breed of cattle known for its characteristic horns, which can extend to 120 inches tip to tip for steers and exceptional cows and bulls in the 70 to 80 inch tip to tip range. Horns can have a slight upward turn at their tips or even triple twist. Texas Longhorns are known for their extreme diversified coloring. The Texas Longhorn Breeders Association of America serves as the recognized registry for the breed, which can often fetch up to $40,000 or more at auction with the record $160,000 for a cow. The first cattle to set foot in North America and the only breed of cattle to evolve without human management, the Texas Longhorn can thrive in country where no other breed can live; subsist on weeds, cactus and brush; range days away from water; and stay fit and fertile whether it?s living in the scorching, parasite-infested tropics or in the arid, subzero winters of Montana..(Photo by Marc Piscotty / © 2002)
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