Longhorn Lesson

On my day in the Stockyards last weekend, I learned even more about my beloved longhorns! For some reason, I am obsessed with them....They are officially called "The Fort Worth Herd" - they even have their own Facebook page!

Anyway, here is the official 'brand' symbol for the Fort Worth Herd:

The symbol has a backwards "F" that points to its past, and a "W" that flows into its future.

And here is a sign that shows the layout of a cattle drive...It's like primitive football formations!

And here are some of the cuties of the Fort Worth herd - relaxing after their cattle drive down Exchange Ave.

About a week or two ago, I saw on Facebook that it was 'branding week' and I saw the evidence on this longhorn! It has the "Fort Worth Herd" branding symbol and some shaved fur. Cool!

Here's a black beauty chilling in their pen.....

I think this little lady was batting her eyelashes at us! She must be the slutty one.... HAHA! (Oh wait, they DID tell us that all of the longhorns here are males). Well, I guess he's the one with 'game'.

Our tour guide told us that this turnstile was over 100 years old - we got to go through it!

Here's the longhorns' home when they aren't strutting their stuff in the little cattle drives (2x per day). Here they are eating dinner:

I just had to take a picture of this cute braided horse tail....Cute!

Here are the cattle pens - they used to go all the way back to that stuff in the distance. HUGE back in the day. The heyday of cattle driving was back in the 1800's, so they've downsized since then.