Milking Scotch Highland Cows? - Homesteading Forum How long will a highland produce milk for your family? Dairy cows will produce milk for 10 months or longer - just enough time for them to be dried off so they can produce another calf I prefer a cow with a clean udder- long hair around teats are a nasty business in my book Long hairs in my milk is even worse
Highland Longhorn cross?? - Homesteading Forum We have a pure Highland Bull and and 3 producing cows 2 of our cows are pure highland and the other is the 1 2 highland 1 2 Longhorn She has a more pure Longhorn look Her calf has more Longhorn features as well Head, Color, Leggier, faster growning and taller Her Highland features are hairy A nice medium length between the 2 breeds
Highland Cross - Homesteading Forum The results are in from our highland cross calves I am very satisfied with the results We have some black angus x highlands The cows had no problem delivering the calves The calves right off the bat were a little big bigger By fall we could see much bigger difference Now we our x bulls
jersey highland cross? any thoughts - Homesteading Forum I just butched one, I brad my Jersey to my dads young bull He has anguses and his neighbour has highlands, the highland bull came over and bred my dads cows, my dad does not castrates his bull calves, just leaves them to breed the cows (all the calves he raises go to the butches) I took my Jersey over to get bred by him
New to this. . getting a Highland Dexter - Homesteading Forum I have a highland girl and a dexter boy coming at the end of June This is my first foray into cattle My Highland baby, Scarlett is hand raised and super sweet and friendly Dehorned She is tiny, red Cute as can be I have woodland she will quickly be able to turn to pasture - as it has
breeding age? - Homesteading Forum I'm looking at starting a fold of Highland cattle, and I need to know at what age a heifer can be bred and at what age a young bull can begin to breed? Thanks!
Highland cattle herd value?? | Homesteading Forum There is a small heard of highland cattle for sale close by consiting of 1 reg bull(8 years), 4 purebred unreg cows(8 years), a heifer and a steer calf The guy is asking $3200 for the whole herd Does this sound like a fair price? How many years have some of you got from your highland cows and
Dexter vs. Scottish Highland? - Homesteading Forum Also, you're going to have difficulty finding a Highland cow that has been milked, and if you're going for a heifer, bear in mind that the Highland calves and heifers can take longer to breed and therefore be in the position to give milk earlier than the Dexter breed Not all Dexters are created equal
Dexters vs. Highland Cattle - Homesteading Forum As a Highland Cattle breeder, if you have a small fold of cattle you will obtain a good carcass, but at the sam time have some majestic cattle to look at which depite the long horns are generally easy to handle The are easy calvers and can produce a wealth of colours