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To: haqihana who wrote (43932)	1/2/2006 10:40:46 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I sold a horse a long time ago and the deal was some cash and a bred cow. I must have been drunk because I was not really set up to take care of a cow and calf. The cow was the old style of Texas horned Hereford where the horns grow down along the side of the face. I think they grow this way because they notch them or put a small weight on the end of the horns. Within a couple of months this old cow had caused more damage then she was worth. She would put her horn on a 2 x 6 rail like a tuning fork and find the weakest spot on the fence and then bust out. She would would go with her calf to a nature refuge about half a mile away to graze in a hollow. She could have stayed there for all I cared but the game warden was not partial to cows. And then one morning along comes an eighty year old cowboy who lived on the east side of the nature refuge and raised Texas longhorns. I found him sitting on the fence one morning admiring my two fine cows and a deal was struck, $1000 cash for the mom and baby. A week later when he came to collect he was $200 short but at this point I really didn't care because they had busted out several more times. We couldn't catch the mom that morning but managed to get the baby in the trailer and her bawling for mom finally convinced the old cow to jump in.