In ancient times all cattle had horns, but as a result of selective breeding, many breeds of cattle lost their horns. Highlanders, Texas Long Horns, and Watussi are a few breeds that still grow horns.

Nature’s Foragers. Highland cattle have evolved to be exceptional foragers, and their horns play a big role in this. When winter sets in and snow covers the ground, these cattle use their horns ...

Miniature Cattle Breed Interest. L.A. Times Archives. Jan. 4, 2006 12 AM PT . ... recounting a struggle the winter before with a full-size steer who got its horns caught in a hay rack.

Dinton Pastures Country Park in Winnersh, Berkshire has highland cows visiting for the season to eat the grass. Highland ...

The Philadelphia Zoo added three Ankole-Watusi cattle, a domesticated African breed known for its enormous, crescent-shaped horns, to its African Plains exhibit. The Ankole are descendants of ...

These long horns aren't longhorns. ... His small herd of about 50 Pineywoods cattle belong to a breed the Livestock Conservancy considers threatened because there are fewer than 3,000 left.

Although not all cattle have horns, most Holsteins do. According to the Holstein Association USA, all 30 of the top-rated Holstein bulls in the U.S. have horns.

In the United States, roughly 80 percent of all calves raised for dairy and 25 percent of beef cattle get their horns removed every year — that’s 4.8 million and 8.75 million head of cattle ...

Organic farmer Tim Gow – who has kept Highland cattle at his Mangapiri Downs Organicstud Farm in New Zealand’s South Island since the 1980s – has spent 20 years perfecting a new breed of the ...

These long horns aren't longhorns. How an NC farmer is sustaining a rare cattle breed By Joe Johnson. Updated May 25, 2018 6:00 AM. PITTSBORO.