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…
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…
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…
