In this episode, we chat about affection for extraneous livestock, raising longhorns for our classes, how temperament is the most important thing with cows, harvesting a cow out of a ditch, culling fencing jumping cows (and their horns), and Wallace's Three Hearts Pilgrimage.

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Timestamps/Topics for Episode 92:

0:00 Affection for extraneous livestock

4:39 Longhorns for our beef classes

6:30 Temperament is the most important

8:04 Harvesting a cow out of a ditch

13:03 Fence jumping cows

20:26 Harvesting the cow & horns

27:00 Blowing the horn

28:38 Wallace's Three Hearts Pilgrimage

33:11 Cull your fence-jumping animals

Links for Episode 92:

• Three Hearts Pilgrimage https://www.threeheartspilgrimage.org/
• Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey https://clearcreekmonks.org/
• Greg Judy - regenerative rancher https://www.youtube.com/@gregjudyregenerativerancher

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