10 Things I've Learned

10.  Cattle have an olfactory organ on the roofs of their mouths.  When they want to smell something, they use their noses, but they can also tip their heads in the air with their mouth slightly open.
9.  Black is the dominant gene color in Angus; red is recessive.
8.  The large flap of skin that starts at the lower neck is where brisket comes from.
7.  The estrus cycle of a cow is 21 days on average.  Gestation is 9 months.
6.  One cow produces an impressive amount of manure!
5.  A heifer needs to gain 1.5 pounds per day to weight enough to breed as a yearling.
4.  Cattle have no top incisors (front teeth), just a hard dental pad -- and it IS hard.
3.  You need to be choosy about your bulls because they can spread STDs.  Do you know whom your bull's been with?
2.  Bucket calves like Daisy have potbellies.
1.  As my Raising Beef Cattle book says, "It's bovine nature to be bossy and pushy, " and Daisy better learn that I'm "top cow."