"Moonbeam"
A few years ago I traded 7 goats for a registered, bred Longhorn cow with a bull calf. The cows name is Shadow's Moonbeam. For those of you that know something about Longhorns (which I don't) her sire was The Shadow and her dam was Easty Choice. She is also a double bred Senator.
My neighbor was a calf roper and he had a big bull calf he wanted to trade for my smaller one. We traded and he threw in a registerred Border Collie. The calf, being hundred pounds or so bigger and weaned, was sold.
I had great expectations of training the collie. He did learn to jump in the air when it rained and catch rain drops in his mouth. That might have been good for a circus but it wasn't much help on the ranch. I gave away the Border Collie.
Moonbean had a beautiful calf, unfortunately it was another bull. We named him Moondoggie and he was also sold. (see photo gallery)
The next calf was a heifer but OOP!.........her father was a horned Hereford named Blanchard Lad, better known as "Moo". Not sure how this happened but Moo had a habit of turning himself out of the pasture and going to work when he thought the time was right. He was just about a month ahead of my breeding schedule. I should have consulted with him when I did the schedule. (see photo gallery)
"Long Horned Hereford".
Oops is a striking young woman now and her name is Wilma. She is a cross between a Registered Horned Hereford Bull and a Registered Longhorn Cow, hence a new breed........ Long Horned Hereford.
A year ago I took Moonbeam, with Wilma still at her side, to Besack's Longhorns, in Lebo, Kansas to have her bred. She was bred to a registered Longhorn, DHB Black Knight. His sire was BL Night Chex, and his dam was Asltilo Jean 903. This time we got another heifer calf that we named Moondancer. You can see why by her picture.
So our tiny herd of Longhorns now consists of our foundation stock, the one cow, one "Long Horned Hereford" heifer and a new "Longhorn" heifer.
This story is a lot bigger then the size of our herd.