How's this for a pair of horns???????

Goose

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• Sep 2, 2015

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Photo taken at the Nebraska State Fair today.

 

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Goose

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• Sep 2, 2015

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I apologize for the blurry quality. I took the pic with my cell phone.

 

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ctb1980

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• Sep 2, 2015

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I think gettin him in a stanchion would be a losing proposition.

 

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Smit

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• Sep 2, 2015

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WOW! :shock:

 

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada

• Sep 2, 2015

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And I thought this post was going to be about some thing you might see in a Tee shirt. Cut them off and the poor begger would probably bleed to death, or at least be light headed.

 

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CenTex Farmall

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• Sep 2, 2015

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Must have fit sideways in the trailer.... or they rode him there.

 

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ObsoElitist

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• Sep 2, 2015

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Even my bike says "WOW".

 

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paul

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• Sep 2, 2015

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I think it was on this site, someone had asked about hauling some cattle for a friend,
But they had horns, he was wondering what he could do to protect his new trailer?

He was kinda chided for a silly question.

But, that photo might put his concerns into focus!

Wow.

Paul

 

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Traditional Farmer

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Virginia

• Sep 3, 2015

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Looks like they need to take some of them Nebraska cows down to Texas and show them what a real Longhorn looks like,maybe they can borrow that fellow's trailer.

 

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Stephen Newell

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• Sep 3, 2015

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The length of the horns isn't so extraordinary. What is unusual is the diameter of the horns.

 

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ohiojim

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• Sep 3, 2015

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neighbor here has one, but it's horns go up.......................JIM

 

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Goose

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• Sep 3, 2015

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Maybe the weight of the horns turns them down?

There was another in the next pen that had smaller horns, but they turned up.

 

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Den N Ms

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• Sep 3, 2015

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Goose,Do you know what the measurement from tip to tip of them is? Have to get permits and WIDE LOAD signs and a escort with flashing lights to move him from place to place. LOL

 

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Goose

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• Sep 3, 2015

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Dang it, I never got the dimensions. And they were probably posted in that purple sign on the wall.

 

J.Wondergem

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Rockford, Mi.

• Sep 3, 2015

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He should have strobe lights in the tips, like a airplane.

 

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ss55

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• Sep 3, 2015

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Any idea what breed that is?

 

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JF in MI

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• Sep 3, 2015

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They're fake. Silicon I bet.

 

Tx Jim

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Coyote Flats, Texas

• Sep 3, 2015

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(quoted from post at 11:25:51 09/03/15) Any idea what breed that is?

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I'll bet it's a Longhorn & Watusi cross.

 

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Jerry/MT

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• Sep 3, 2015

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Ankole (Spelling?) They"re an African breed

 

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TimV

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• Sep 3, 2015

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Most likely Ankole, Ankole-Watusi, or some cross thereof. Youtube video below is of Lurch, probably the most famous of the breed--a steer with 37" horn circumference.
Lurch

 

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RN

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• Sep 3, 2015

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The big horned African cattle's horns are more blood sponged filled than the northern bovines horns. Act as sort of radiators for the brain tissue, spinal fluids. cut the horns and sear them to stop bleeding was tried many year back when the big horns were thought to be a danger to the English colonists- hot weather days the poor critters suffered and died early from 'brain fevers'. Treat them with respect and be ready to run if needed, most of the domesticated African cattle tolerate humans and dogs- but if they smell a cat box that hasn't been cleaned sometimes they get a bit nervous, old instinct about predator lions come back. Some exhibitors put bright red or pink foam balls or ribbons on the tips of horns just so they can see the limits/size of doorways needed. Some of the big horned Africans that have been exhibited a few time have learned to turn their head sideways going down halls and through doors, the exhibitor walking next to his or her pet bovine will lightly tap one horn or the other and the dangerous looking overgrown calf will obligingly turn head about 75 degrees and continue walking on lead rope.

 

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Hammer house

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• Sep 3, 2015

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Yes I know the name, they are WATUSI cattle. My Brother s Grandson raises them. They are A little like the
Texas longhorn, but there horns are lot difference. They do not get real big, but there horns do get big in dia. but
maybe not as long as the Texas long horn. I have never own any of them myself.

He sent me A few pic. of his, I will post A few.

Hammer Man