Guinness World Record Largest horn spread on a steer

That would look great on my Cadilac.

How much wider than Gumdrops

Bluegrass is 117.25 inches ttt (tip to tip).

Candy Gumdrops is 74.5 inches ttt.

Bulls get heavier based horns, when you castrate them the steers get the more feminine rolling twist horns. Think Bevo, the UT mascot...

This is my bull Candy Gumdrops...

I'd let him walk, could use another year.

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Do they haul it double wide trailer?

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They'll get in a normal trailer. They just have to be used to being handled, or they'll freak out and break a tip off. If they are calm, they are very aware of their horns.

My bull is more than 40 inches narrower, watch how he maneuvers getting out of a 6 foot wide trailer. He gets one side out first and then the other.



The key is being around them a lot. If they only saw you once a year when you pen them up and worm them then they'll basically be wild. All of ours are slow moving and don't mind being put in a squeeze chute. We work them twice a year, but myself or my mom will ride a 4 wheeler around them and check on them about 3 or 4 times a week.

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Do breeders select for the horn?

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Some do, but it's not considered the best way to go about breeding longhorns.

Most breeders breed for the total package (Frame, muscle, color, temperament, horn, virillity, etc.) In that scenario, you'll never breed the perfect longhorn, so it drives you to continue to make new selections of mating pairs to try to get something better.

In a way, the name "longhorn" is almost a curse. They were called longhorns because their horns were longer than other breeds. People have taken the idea of getting them wider and wider, but todays "improved" longhorns look nothing like the original Spanish cattle Christopher Columbus bought to the new world.

This is what an old world longhorn looks like...

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Florida Cracker is a good example of the original Longhorns

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For sure. There's another similar breed called piney woods cattle. They claim their horns didn't spread wide like TX longhorns because they inhabited forest land like Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama instead of the open range of South Texas and Mexico.

Piney Woods Cattle...

Seeing the old blood cattle, it makes quite the difference when compared to quality TX longhorn females of today like this.



It's almost gotten ridiculous... almost.
That's a fine cow.

Thread makes me want a rare Ribeye and fully loaded baked potato.