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  2. Christopher Columbus Slaughter - Wikipedia

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    Later, he became a cattle drover on the Chisholm Trail in Kansas. [2] [7] In 1873, he founded C. C. Slaughter and Company, a cattle breeding firm. [2] Four years later, in 1877, he purchased the Long S Ranch from Plainview to Big Spring, Texas, on the Staked Plains, the largest ranch in West Texas.

  3. Hell's Half Acre (Fort Worth) - Wikipedia

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    Hell's Half Acre was a precinct of Fort Worth, Texas designated as a red-light district beginning in the early to mid 1870s in the Old Wild West. [1] It came to be called the town's "Bloody Third ward " because of the violence and lawlessness in the area.

  4. Feeder cattle - Wikipedia

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    [3] [2] Backgrounding operations will typically purchase 300–600 pounds (140–270 kg) feeder cattle calves and feed to grow the animals into 650–875 pounds (295–397 kg) backgrounded cattle. Backgrounding cattle that achieve weights of 650–700 pounds (290–320 kg) are suitable for sale to grass feeding operations, whereas those ...

  5. Backgrounding - Wikipedia

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    Backgrounding is an intermediate stage sometimes used in cattle production which begins after weaning and ends upon placement in a feedlot.Background feeding relies more heavily on forage (e.g., pasture, hay) in combination with grains to increase a calf's weight by several hundred pounds and to build up immunity to diseases before putting them in a feedlot in preparation for slaughter.

  6. Guide to Fort Worth Stockyards: Western history, fine dining ...

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  7. Cattle drives in the United States - Wikipedia

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    When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West (1997) excerpt and text search; Jordan, Terry. North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation (1993) online edition Archived 2011-04-27 at the Wayback Machine; Jordan, Terry. Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle ...

  8. A. Duda & Sons - Wikipedia

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    The family diversified into beef cattle ranching at their Cocoa Ranch, near Cocoa, Florida. By the 1970s, it had 20,000 cattle. The business was incorporated in 1953. The company revenues were $200 million in the 1980s. Ranch holdings in Central Florida had risen to 16,000 acres (6,500 ha).

  9. Beef cattle - Wikipedia

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    Since cattle are herbivores and need roughage in their diet, silage, hay and/or haylage are all viable feed options. [14] Despite this, 3/4th of the 32 pounds (14.52 kg) of feed cattle consume each day will be corn. [15] Cattle weighing 1000 lbs. will drink an average of 41 L a day, and approximately 82 L in hot weather. [16]