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Meadowwood Registered Texas Longhorns

Charley and Doris Snyder
12274 US HIGHWAY 62 
Elgin, OK 73538-3041
(580) 492-4739
FAX: (580) 492-6539
E-Mail: dbsnyder@tds.net

We have been raising Texas Longhorns since 1978 and are just enthusiastic about this magnificent breed today as we were in 1978.

 Meadowwood is located in the foothills of the Wichita Mountains, near the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, 12 miles north of Lawton, OK. We purchased our first Texas Longhorn in 1978 and have enjoyed them all these years. Charley is a country florist and has been for nearly 60 years, semi-retiring in 2001. For several years the Safari B Ranch and the Dohery Ranch organized a registered Texas Longhorn Sale the day after the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Sale. This sale was proceeded by a Champagne Brunch. Pat Baker retained Charley to do the table and sale ring flower decorations. The Champagne flowed! When Charley saw the magnificent and docile animals he had to have one - and so our romance with the Texas Longhorn breed began.

We have 3 pastures - on the home place, where we live, we have a separate pasture for our bulls. We also keep all our heifers here until they are 15 - 18 months old and then are exposed to a bull on either our #2 or #3 pasture. We normally do not AI our first calf heifers. We are fortunate to have a large number of various oak and pecan trees furnishing shade for the cattle in the hot Oklahoma summer months.

Our #2 pasture is about a mile from the home place. There we have one of our senior herd sires, Dynamite FM 190. Dynamite is black and white, carries Blackie Graves brand and has 80" of total horn. This pasture also has a large number of various oak and pecan trees for shade. Our 3rd pasture is 3-1/2 miles from the home place. Bonham has been the senior herd sire there for several years. Recently we pulled him and put him in the bull pasture on the home place and put a junior herd sire, Meadowwood's Top Kick, our Tango son to work there. This pasture also has trees for shade and water from a spring year around along with 2 ponds.

Our breeding program has always been blended genetics from all of the major Texas Longhorn families, with emphasis on WR, Butler and Phillips. We believe single trait breeding is not for our program. A 2-1/2 to 3 year old cow with her first calf, good conformation, color and at least 40" horns tip to tip fits well into our program. Of course, more horn is definitely a plus.

Through 1990 most of our herd was purchased from Dr. and Mrs. L. V. Baker, Safari B Ranch, Elk City, OK and from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. During the last 10 or so years we have expanded our herd by Private Treaty Purchases and from various registered Texas Longhorn auctions adding genetics from other breeding programs.