Quietest breeds of cattle and sheep

[GTB]

All about your management, buy them young treat them well and any breed will get on to your way of thinking.

You've obviously never owned any Lim X Welsh Blacks? Contimental doesn't even begin to describe how dangerous they are.

 

[DebbieApple]

I think it depends on what's on either side of the fence. If the grass is actually greener anything will go through anything.

 

[yellowbelly]

Which could you walk up to and stroke or usher quietly into a pen for dosing etc. None of this chasing them around the county. Yes I know it's about how they've been brought up etc, and Jerseys prob better than Limmys. Any other ideas.

Lincoln Reds - but I would say that, wouldn't I?

 

[Hardyspicer]

Herefords pure or X with anything except limos

 

[Paul E]

I've just liked the above comment.
Not for the comment, but for the avatar picture!!

 

[yellowbelly]

I've just liked the above comment.
Not for the comment, but for the avatar picture

I can think of a lot of people who should be standing next to that sign.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

In my limited experience the Herefords are quite a bit quieter than angus. In fact our first bunch of angus X heifers (out of Herefords) were so flighty when we tb tested recently that we've put buying another angus bull on hold for now just to see how they pan out. Very nice looking heifers though.

Yes, I have absolutely no doubt the feeder and the breeder make a huge difference, breed not so much- there's guys buying limo straws to put over dairy cows for 'nice docile calves' over here.. who don't want Hereford because 'they're fence jumping @(^) $'.. even the local fallow deer are nearly black!
We had a beautiful quiet simmy bull when I was a lad, I could brush his belly as a 9 year old boy- so we had high hopes of the offspring being gentle- they only touched down to bend a gate or break a wire, before returning to orbit fun times indeed
But always a good topic IMO - perhaps the bloodlines that came to NZ were quite unusual?

Nobody has said Galloway yet

 

[Pasty]

South Devons are lovely cows but you do need to perfect the accent when having a word with them or they will never respect you.

Herefords really. We raised them when I was a lad and they are smashing cattle. Dad went after all the continental crap as everyone else did which is when we started getting injured, always fixing fences and always chasing bullocks around the lanes as well as losing money in the process. Brilliant. I think it was about this time that dad decided that cattle were too much hard work.

 

[Old Tip]

I have Luings and alongside the Whitebred Shorthorns they are the two quitetst breeds of cattle I have ever owned no side to themat all.
Galloway and Blue Greys can be nuts around calving and stubborn as hell in a pen, even the quietest Limmy seems to go crazy once you pen it up and can jump like race horses.
I have also found Highlands very quite and gentle creatures but have only ever had a few so may have just been lucky

 

[Roy_H]

Of all the cattle breeds we tried (And looking back we almost went through the alphabet! ) The Sussex was by far the easiest to handle in our experience. Maybe their inherent docility stems from the fact that they were once used as ploughing oxen and to pull carts etc. but you are going to get good and bad in all breeds . I remember a guy from Genus telling me he went to A.I. a bunch of heifers and he said "Forget Limmos these buggers were the craziest most mental cattle you could imagine, jumping the wall trying to climb over gates, charging into barriers l have never seen anything like it!"..... The breed? Aberdeen Angus! But who knows how that particular bunch of heifers had been handled beforehand.

 

[tinsheet]

Another shout for South Devons, on a different level to most other cattle, very chilled

 

[borderterribles]

I call them lazy bitches!

Yeah, that too!

 

[harperfarmer]

Blue x dairy.

 

[Danllan]

...Nobody has said Galloway yet

I have found them very quiet, except for the one that aren't...

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I have found them very quiet, except for the one that aren't...

likewise, and what a shock that was! I had a Galloway badge of merit on my puny lil bicep for a fortnight. I like cattle, and assumed most like me

 

[lamb89]

We have found that our texel ewe lamb are very quietest sheep. Our welsh half bred ewe are the worst. Herefords our quietest here. We avoid lims as best as possible.

 

[marshfarmer]

They can all get out if they really want to,or if there is a tired place in the fence, doesn't matter how quiet they are, they are still inquisitive for what's over the other side, or if something is upsetting them.

 

[marshfarmer]

Some of my craziest Blonde x heifers came outta the quietest Hereford x cows I had. But I'm concentrating on Hereford and Simi now for the future

 

[Henarar]

Another shout for South Devons, on a different level to most other cattle, very chilled

there were a few at the show yesterday and we have a couple crosses
I can't really understand why you don't see more about as suck cows as they should milk very well

 

[Poorbuthappy]

there were a few at the show yesterday and we have a couple crosses
I can't really understand why you don't see more about as suck cows as they should milk very well

Big hungry cows is the criticism I've heard. Not had experience myself though I must say