Some Good Longhorn Sites

Here are some good Pure Longhorn websites for you to go check out:

CTLR.org - Of Course, THE registry for Pure Texas Longhorn Cattle. Lots of information and history.

Texas Longhorns: Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge - The sell some cattle every year too. If you joint the CTLR and get on their mailing list, you'll get alerts as to when the WR sales are.

DWD Longhorns - The smartest folks in the room when it comes to Pure Texas Longhorns. Some great information on Longhorns, and they would probably sell you some cattle too.

Jim McEachern's Triple M Ranch - Pure Longhorn Ranch near Midlothian, Texas

Santa Rita Ranch - I like this site because they have Pure Longhorns and a Handgun training class too.... two of my favorite things in one easy place.

Of course, right here I will try to update you on information about Pure Texas Longhorns, and you will even find some cattle for sale every once in awhile...

Stay tuned, because I still hope to have an article about my day in Inspection Class, and I might be offering another Longhorn for sale as well.

Michael Bunker

BBQ Article

Here is a good article that appeared on a Bar-B-Q site called bbqcrashcourse.com:

http://www.bbqcrashcourse.com/pages/texas_longhorns

It has some good and interesting comments in it. I still, after reading it, am amazed when I hear people claim that "there is no such thing as a pure longhorn", or "nobody can say what traits are longhorn traits", and worse, these comments are coming from Longhorn registries! Frankly, if I were new to Longhorns and I was interested in starting a Longhorn herd, I would stay away from a registry that claimed that "you can't know what a true longhorn is", or one that obviously and openly registers cattle that are mixed bloods with evident traits of other cattle. For example, many of the "registered" longhorns you see as you drive through Central Texas have obvious Watusi or other African cattle blood, but there are Longhorn registries that have no problem registering these animals as Longhorns.

That takes me a long way from the discussion about BBQ, but if one of the traits of a true and pure Longhorn is the superior quality of the beef (and it is), then keeping the Longhorns pure ought to be of great importance to those of us who want good Longhorns and good beef.

Michael Bunker