00:02Brandishing horns well over seven feet wide, these cattle are unlike anything else in the
00:09paddock.
00:09But for 11-year-old Joanna Lamb, this is her every day.
00:14I think I might have been three when I started showing longhorns, three or four.
00:20While Texas longhorn cattle might appear intimidating, those who work with them say they're misunderstood.
00:27They think they're quite scary, but once you get to know them, they're little speegarts.
00:31Often people see the horns and think that they would be a big, menacing, difficult to handle
00:36animal but they are genuinely gentle big puppy dogs.
00:40Texas longhorns were first imported to Australia in the 1980s but are still considered a rare
00:47breed.
00:48It's surprising how few people know that they actually are in Australia.
00:52The Lamb family has about 100 longhorns alongside their Brangus beef operation on a 16,000-acre
01:00property in central Queensland.
01:02We went to pick up one heifer.
01:04We came home with two that day and it just sort of snowballed from there.
01:08Adaptable and hardy in drought, these stock are much more than just horns and hides.
01:14People probably don't know how good their eating quality is and how actually good for you their
01:20meat is.
01:20And the potential for a bigger industry to blossom.
01:24I'd love to see the longhorn breed continue to grow.
01:28Go to the south.
01:29Go to the south.
01:29Go to the south.
01:29Go to the south.
01:29Go to the south.
01:29Go to the south.
01:30Go to the south.
01:30You
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