![]() It could be worse than the poor jersey bull calf which has practically no commercial value in todays market place. Although I am always open to new ideas I would also have an underlying fear of being laughed out of the mart if I couldn’t find sale for a miniature breed on the private market. I might just have an old way of thinking like so many commercial farmers in this country where the vast majority are just of producing cattle for kg of beef. I have no doubt that highlands could make great pets if you could invest a little time into them every day. They even offer to handle and halter train them for a fee. Much the same way designer dogs are costing a lot of money and people brought miniature pigs as pets it seems that now there is also a demand in some parts of the world for miniature pet cowsįarms like lakeport miniature highlands and trembath mountain ranch in the united states or stoneywood miniature highlands in Australia offering both miniature and micro highlands. ![]() It seems to me these miniature highlands are really novelty cattle or pets. The cost or registering purebred cattle can be more than the price a calf would make at the mart afterwards so I guess it really does depend on the customer.Ī man buying for the factory isn’t going to pay the same as someone who wants one for breeding or a pet farm. Highland cattle are hard to put a price on anyway as it all depends on where you sell them and who wants them and the price can vary widely between a local mart and a highland show. I am wondering if this is just a way of fooling people out of there money for an over priced small cow or if I am the fool and I am in the wrong game. With prices over 4000 dollars being asked for a small bull it is definitely putting me thinking. It seems that they are mostly just breed form smaller cows like designer cows if you will, The most noticeable difference with these miniature cattle is the price. ![]() Then it is not just the highland as there are also miniature belted galloways offered for sale So where have the miniature breeds for sale today come form.Īre they genetically breed form smaller cattle or crossbreed with a short Dexter to create a new breed of cattle. The miniature highlands claim to be a reproduction of those cattle. They were smaller and predominantly black. Hundreds of years ago the remote rugged islands off the west coast of northern Scotland was home for the wild “Kyloe”, an ancestor of the present day Highland cattle. ![]() There was a smaller breed in the past but they have been crossbred with larger highlands to become one distinct breed. Highlands on the other hand are as far as i am aware just one breed today. The only one I know of that’s real is the short legged Dexter which has a form of dwarfism so they never get very tall and then there is another type of the breed that’s around the size of a Kerry cow. In fact there are many different breeds of mini cattle for sale, So not being able to find answers on Wikipedia I thought I would just ask you the public are there really mini breeds. I have recently come across miniature highland cows sale on different websites mostly in the united states and I have to admit that I am somewhat skeptical.
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