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- South Pennines ol14
Highlanders/Galloways
- Thread starter kfpben
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Years back I remember the Jaw herd from (?) Glasgow way. Super looking Dun herd
RushesToo
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- Fingringhoe
Might be not the norm - but these look grand,
Also like Sussex reds.
Easy on the eye.
local hotel here has them on their attached farm & menu as a selling point
Our Working Farm | Killeavy Castle Estate | Northern Ireland
Our working farm is at the very heart of everything we do on the Killeavy Castle Estate. It allows us to provide the freshest seasonal produce for our guests.
www.killeavycastle.com
The hotelier probably read the article in one of the glossies some years ago describing Belties as “parkland furniture”. For that purpose I think they are the best, and they are naturally polled, hardy, and very low maintenance. Personally my blood runs cold when close to any animal with horns. There is a risk of injury, they are harder to transport, and seem to need specialist gear to handle them. I suspect the hotelier will not want dairy crosses with white on their faces / feet, or obvious mismarks. The hotelier may require full belts even if a breeder would reject them as pedigrees. They probably need to look like pedigrees even though they are not. Most breeders like us do a decent trade in bullocks and mismarked heifers for farm shops that would look great next to a hotel. Don’t worry about finishing, we are at 90ft on modern leys and they just need managed. Keep plenty of grass in front of them. We do not restrict the diet of growers.
Temperaments vary. Mostly it’s calm handlers / calm cattle.
Try a classified ad on the Belted Galloway web site, the breed is getting more popular and there are bound to be sources of bullocks near you. Or if you need an artic load distance issues are less important.
Guiggs
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- Location
- Leicestershire
Mad For Muck
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- Location
- Midlands
Currently got 56 highlands inc young stock. They are docile and can be very friendly & easy to handle the more time you put into /spend time with them. We don’t keep them for meat but 3 years they’re finished they aren’t the type of animal to be pushed intensively to get them finished. There’s quite a few for sale if you look on places like sell my livestock, highland cattle society etc. We out winter all of ours, don’t get me wrong this winter they have made a bit of mess where they’ve been coming in & out of sheds or gateways etc but that’s easily sorted & hasn’t really ever been an issue before. They shouldn’t get too fat in a summer, ours are on grass which is probably way too good for highlands but they’ll tend to eat any rubbish & hedges before they start to touch the grass
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Consider yourself told off !! Kettle always on
Pigken
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- Location
- Co. Durham
What’s not to like ?
They can scratch there arse with horns and stab accurately.
Pigken
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- Location
- Co. Durham
shorthorn cross heifer calf,
Galloways have no horns
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
That's proper ground for Highlanders, even if it is the wrong side of the border!
Pigken
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- Location
- Co. Durham
choochter
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
Whitebred Shorthorns are very photogenic and are easy to keep.
In the OP's situation I'd chose WS, selected wisely.
They are easy calving and have good feet and are long lived.
Designated by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as an 'At Risk' breed and worth supporting.
In the OP's situation I'd chose WS, selected wisely.
They are easy calving and have good feet and are long lived.
Designated by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as an 'At Risk' breed and worth supporting.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Your profile still says Co Durham
