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Hickman cattle tend to be large and rangy rather than short and blocky. There are a few guineas in the line, and these
are shorter and blockier as is typical of the guinea type. Heads are long and horns are long and twisted up and out. Colors
include nearly the entire range for the breed: base colors include black, brown, brindle, red, and smoky. Spotting includes
linebacked, colorsided, uniform roan, and random recessive spots.
Hickman
cattle ranged with Ladnier cattle, and cattle of
these strains are very similar. Before the stock law that closed the range in
the 1960s, Ladnier ranged to the west of the Ridge road to the east side of
Wolf River, Hickman to the west of Ridge road on both sides of Biloxi creek and
De Soto National Forest. After the stock law the two herds ranged much closer
to one another with Hickman on both sides of Biloxi Creek and Biloxi Creek
range.
An interesting note to the Hickman is the extinct Garner strain. These cattle ranged between Hickman and
Broadus. They reportedly were black with
black horn tips, a somewhat unsual conbination of traits. They are gone as
a distinct strain, but probably influenced the Hickman strain.
-- Phil Sponenberg
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