LOCATED IN SAN PATRICIO, TEXAS

Welcome to TIO BENITO LONGHORNS 

TB BEASTIE GIRL
2/23/2020
(TCC RIO'S VOOMERIFIC X LM HEY NINETEEN)
"Tio Benito" is the Spanish translation for 'Uncle Ben'
Registered Texas Longhorns...for Sale...since 2008.

In early 2008, I purchased my first Texas Longhorns, having originally high fenced my ranch for stocking Whitetails and Red Deer.  Several years into it, I became sick of dealing with "hunters" (I use the term loosely).  Longhorns had caught my attention on trips to the YO Ranch, and hanging with John Floyd at his Diamond F Ranch.  I was thinking they would give my ranch an "Old School" authentic Texas flavor, but as I read more, was exposed more and learned more about them,  their allure began to win me over, not as any backdrop,  but in the experience of being with them as they calved, then watching calves turn into something, knowing it could be a progression breeding for horn, color conformation, etc.
  I slowly turned to assembling a herd, breeding and 'raising' them by the end of 2008.   Over the last decade,  we bred, bought and sold some outstanding Texas Longhorns, working on improving our herd and the breed through the best of conditions as well as a couple of the worst droughts on record. 

By January 2012, TB Kelly Nellie, our first 90" cow was born here, followed in Jan. 2013, by TB Tari's Ginger Snap, now in the 90" Club, currently residing at El Coyote Ranch. Texas Longhorns have the reputation of "built to last" ,  by surviving the elements on their own in the days of the open range ... as mothers, they are unmatched for instinctively birthing, protecting and raising their own calves;  a new calf marks time in a progression, usually out of various degrees of a genetic match, with the potential of improving desired traits within the herd.  One might recognize God's hand in their development.... for Texas Longhorns are the product of  'intelligent design', having endured , adapted, and  evolved over hundreds of years in the wild and on their own, throughout much of Texas and beyond.  They have become a symbol of "The West", reminiscent of the origins of cowboys and cattle drives.  They are both living history, pasture art, practical and currently, evolving  through various degrees of genetic engineering.  There is something extra special about them while no two are just alike... they  have a grounding influence on most of their ardent admirers, as ranchers with Texas Longhorns watch them steadily graze their way through all kinds of range and pastures, living out their lives... "all the live long day".
..... Ben Liska


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