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Hi, my name is Hot Rod, I'm a
registered Texas Longhorn bull.
My humans
are sad and reluctantly selling me. 
This is me, with Daisy, my Shorthorn girlfriend. (3/2010 photo)
My humans, Chuck and Judy Cubel, have only 1
cow, they had to sell my 2 other cows, due to a total hay crop failure, last
summer, they are buying hay now and won't have any their hay to feed until
summer 2012. I WANT and NEED a large family of cows to take care of and love! I am 4 & 1/2 years old, my birthday is
in April. I am an athlete, I like to be able to run and walk around in a pasture full
of happy cows and my calves. I can eat
other types of feed that the domestic cattle don't like to eat, I also
like hay, too. I am
intelligent, I can think, you don't have to prod me along like domestic
cattle. My breed has survived floods and snow storms, Texas Longhorns are rugged, hearty and unharmed by many of the diseases
affecting other breeds. I am registered
with the ITLA as Bladizm, but I was named Hot Rod, because Chuck
and Judy, re-built antique Model T & V8 Fords. I was born in Ohio, but I have lived in
Huntington Utah since I was six months old,
I was bred to be able to make BEEFY calves. My family tree is like the Who's Who for Texas
Longhorns, follow this "family tree" link to see my ancestors. I am easy
going, have "kind" eyes, good natured, friendly, love to have my forehead
scratched. Horns are not for show, as they only measure 45" tip to tip, many
of my ancestors had the same size horns when they were young like me and their
horns grew longer. Chuck and Judy respect my horns, my human Chuck, holds onto one
horn and scratches my head with his other hand. I am not aggressive or mean,
I was in the same pen with my cows when Daisy gave birth to my calf,
T-Bone. Look at his photos below. If you breed
me with spotted
cows, like Daisy, I can make fancy calves but if you bred me with a red or black
Angus, I
can make a beef calf. If you breed me with cows that have horns, the
calf will have horns. If I am bred with a polled cow, the calf with be
polled. Cattle ranchers like to breed the first time heifers with Texas
Longhorn because the
easy birthing. If you buy me,
Judy would like yearly photos of me on my birthdays, some of my relatives
lived to be 20 years old or older and were still breeding. Some of my grammas
were still producing calves at age 18 and giving abundant milk, that fed her
calf and her human family too! My grandfathers, like
Dakota Kid,
Senator and Cowcatcher (always have liked that
name), were beefy bulls with
thick bodies with good dispositions, each making happy calves. Darol Dickinson, my breeder, said that I
am totally sound and a capable
breeder of 50 to 90 cows, if I had 5 to 10 cows I would be a HAPPY bull, but if I had whole herd
of cows to love I would be really happy bull !
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