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The Lolli Bros Exotic Animal sale will be held in Macon, Missouri from Septmeber 24 through September 27, 2014. Exotic cattle which includes Watusi will sell on Thursday the 25th. http://lollibros.com/ExoticSales/ExoticCattle/tabid/59/Default.aspx
It is that time of year again. The World Watusi Association will hold its annual membership meeting in conjunction with the Lolli Bros. Exotic Animal sale in Macon, Missouri.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday evening September 24th at 7:00 PM. The location will be at Diner 54, 2015 North Missouri Street, Macon, MO. The Diner is located just north of the Comfort Inn. The Diner phone number is : 660-395-5454
This is the time to meet and great with our fellow Watusi enthusiasts. See you there.
Editor’s note: Recently Darol Dickinson and Maureen Neidhardt exchanged some information on Facebook about the history of the WWA and Watusi cattle. We are reposting this here to share with others interested in Watusi Cattle.
Darol: In the early days of WWA everyone was encouraged to do the Watusi breed up program, mostly with Watusi bulls bred to Texas Longhorn cows. People raised half Watusi, then 3/4, then on up to a high percent Watusi. This created the greatest boom in the Watusi industry. In 1979 when we bought 15 Watusi from Rare Animal Survival Center in Ocala, FL, it was thought there were less than 50 original bloodline Watusi in North America. Many of these were owned by zoos. Nelson Rockefeller and I both bought cattle from RASC about the same time. He got 3 cows and a bull. The rest were in zoos.
We wanted to keep everyone advised that our group is experiencing some serious health problems. Both Angie Base (wife of our President Vernon) and Pam Jackson (wife of our Vice President, Richard and herself our Association Secretary), are fighting some serious health issues. We want to wish them both well and let them know that they are in all of our thoughts.
This is the first Full Watusi embryo Transplant born in North America. It was 1980. Sire was Jimmy the Swede and the dam was a Rare Animal Survival cow. Me on the left and embryologist Za Johnson on the right. This was at our lab at Calhan, Colorado. This calf came at great cost in the early days of embryo transfer. There were only a few.
Dr. Paul Polzin, a Lifetime Member of the World Watusi Association, has seen this photo of a cow in Uganda and fallen in love. Yes, he knows that he can’t have this particular cow but he would very much like to find one or two that look somewhat like her. If you have or know of anyone that may have one for sale, please contact Paul at paulpolzin@centurytel.net
Darol Dickinson has shared this photo with us to show the horn mount of Buffalo Bill and give an idea of the size of this animal.
