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Article: If you want a hearty breed, raise Highland cattle.(The cow barn)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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WhY would you want to own something that looks like that?
It's a question many Highland cattle owners have heard in the past. Here are some answers.
Highland cattle are the oldest registered breed of cattle with a Herd Book being published in 1885. The Scottish Highland Cattle Society was formed in 1884 and most of the cattle registered were black. Originally, there were two subgroups of Highland cattle, which today are merged into one. The smaller, mostly black or brindled cattle were raised on the western islands and were known as Kyloes, and the larger red animals of the Scottish mainland. Today Highland cattle may be red, black, yellow, white, ...