Highland calves.

[Redgoatea]

Somebody asked so here they are. 7

 

[204saskman]

I have always liked them little buggers. They look like little wolly manoths. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Our neighbor used to raise these. I heard they have a nice disposition and lean meat. Nice pictures.

 

[BruceWard]

Those are coos! Where do you have them at?

 

[jimmyj]

Awww shucks, they're awful cute!

 

[Redgoatea]

I'm over on the Oregon coast by Newport. There's a couple of folds around here.

 

[4720 OWNER]

Almost all baby animals are cute or their mothers cover them with dirt so they do not have to feed them.

Seriously, very good pics. Just sent a highland cross to the locker plant for butcher. Crosses just do not seem to do as well as the real thing.

 

[Redgoatea]

Almost all baby animals are cute or their mothers cover them with dirt so they do not have to feed them.

Seriously, very good pics. Just sent a highland cross to the locker plant for butcher. Crosses just do not seem to do as well as the real thing.

What are you crossing them with? I'm going to cross mine with Irish Dexter for milk and meat and an easier to manage size. Well that was the plan till all three calves came out as bull. 7

 

[jimmyj]

Hey! We had a dexter highland cross cow! Nice medium size, tame and easy to handle. Small world.

 

[wjoerob]

Sorry to disagree on their temperament. We had 5, had to get rid of them 'cause they wouldn't stay put! I would get a call every day/ every other day from neighbors saying they were out. Plenty of food & water in the pasture, but they would just climb over a woven wire fence. Didn't matter if it had barbed wire, electric, wood or metal posts. Now we're down to a 1-yr.-old cow, she seems to be content to stay home.

 

[Redgoatea]

Hey! We had a dexter highland cross cow! Nice medium size, tame and easy to handle. Small world.

Hey Jimmy do you have any pics of it?? The dexter bull has knocked up three of my breeders and I've been trying to find out what's coming next spring.

As for the five bad cows are ya sure they were all bad? You probably had one bad cow and four followers. I've got six highlands and two Dexters and they're all great cows but wherever the lead cow goes they all go.

 

[jimmyj]

This is the calf. My buddy still has it, looks pretty much the same. We only ever had 2 cows so my experience is limited. We had 5 strand electric fence as there are goats and sheep in the same pasture. Nobody has ever got out unless it's been my fault.

 

[Redgoatea]

Nice thanks for the pic. It looks like a highland with Dexter horns and feet. I have six pygora and two angora goats in with the cows and all my pastures are woven wire with a barb line on the top. Nobody gets out unless we leave a gate open but my Dexter bull went over and through five fences when we first picked him up.