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Murder Steer

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From True West magazine For many years Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie regaled his students with Texas history at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a prolific author with books on Longhorns, Rattlesnakes, Lost Mines, Mustangs, Vaqueros of the Brush Country, Coyotes and a host of others. One…

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SenseHub

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SenseHub, a new Allflex Livestock Intelligence product, measures a number of cow specific behaviors, including rumination and activities. This system utilizes ear tags and a reader placed at a location animals visit daily, such as a feedbunk or water source. As long as cattle enter the reader’s range at least…

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Aurochs – Giant Cattle

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Did you know there were once huge cattle in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe?  Tall as a man, weight 3,300 pounds, massive horns.  Hunter-Gathers hunted them as a food source using wooden spears with stone tips and domesticated dogs. Aurochs, (Bos primigenius), also spelled auroch, were extinct wild…

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