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Horded Hereford Bull

jigs said:
Northern Rancher said:
I've actually been to Kansas a time or two and it wasn't all bad lol.
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worst part of visiting Kansas from Canada is the drive through those dad gum Husker Fans !
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Just wondering if NU has the only 1-A football team in the state?
 
weve been involved with raising longhorned cattle for three generations. . .not had a problem with cancer eye cows from the bulls having horn. . .never really heard that one unless the poled cows cant defend themselves if he slings his head. . . . my uncle raised his longhorns in fort scott kansas - that is a part of gods country for our family. . .
 
the cancer eye comment wasn't about the horned animal but the problem associated with the herfords, there is a cow calf guy who has switched his herd from heford and limo to black and red angus. he swears that anything that gets cancer eye is a herford or red white face. i help him out from time to time and the only cull cows with cancer eye has been his herford cows. might have something to do with the pigmentation around the eye or genetic????
 
thats interesting . . . i wonder if there is a hereford genetic marker that shows that??? just curious. . . and if that, as you say tends to be seen predominately in the hereford genetics? ive heard of only two cases of cancer eye in longhorns. . .both belonging to a friend. . . and i do know that genetically a hereford marker will at times show up in our breed. . .
 
i have always been told it was the lack of pigmentation around the eye,herefords ,baldys ive never seen it in any brahma or brahma cross cow.
 
We had Herefords at one time (for a long time) and we were pretty linebred. We got into some cancer eye problems so bad that we treated at least 25% of those cows every year for cancer eye. Oh, we got good at seeing it, sometimes it was as small as a matchstick head and we could
burn it off. I do think it is genetic, but as I recall, the Herefords we had didn't have much pigment around their eyes either.

We just changed to black cattle starting in 1979. Mr. FH words were (in his opinion) "there's nothing better than a black cow and nothing better than a Horned Hereford bull."
 
the pigment around the eye makes alot of sense. . .i heard my uncles talk about the old longhorns and their pigmentation around the eyes, nose. . . and so i think your right about the pigment problem with those herefords. . . .our old cattle have alot of pigment and as i think about it at least one of the cancer eye longhorns i saw had very light color and not much pigment in hide and nose. . . .but it may be a genetic flaw too. . .
 

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