English Longhorn Cattle - The Leasowes, Halesowen July 2021

English Longhorn Cattle at The Leasowes, Halesowen, West Midlands
Every few months the cattle are brought back into the park and wander around keeping the grass low.
"From The Cattle Site"
English Longhorns are large lean beef cattle with an impressive sweep of horns that curve down to around the nose. These impressive horns are valued in the pedigree. The body may be any one of a wide range of brindle colours (including colours from red to grey) but they all have the characteristic white line or "finching" along the back and down the tail, which is passed onto their cross bred progeny. Cows range in height from 130 to 140cm and weigh 500 to 600kg. Males average 150 cm in height and 1000 kg in weight.
They are excellent mothers and their docile nature makes them an easy breed to manage. Their breeding, longevity and relatively low body weight makes them very economical and inexpensive to feed.
The Leasowes is a historic landscape, listed as Grade I on the English Heritage list of parks and Gardens of historic interest in England.
Designed by the poet William Shenstone between 1743 and 1763 the site is one of the most important and influential landscapes of the 18th Century and is considered to be one of the first natural landscape gardens in England.
Today, the Leasowes is of major historic significance, ranking in importance with such landscapes as Blenheim and Stowe. It is the diverse landscape of wooded valleys, open grasslands, lakes and streams created by Shenstone that makes the site so important for wildlife. The site has been managed with nature in mind since the mid 18th Century and as such provides a wealth of different habitats for birds, mammals, invertebrates and locally uncommon plant species.

[@garymcguire8529]

The first time I have seen black and white ones.

[@wildlifegardener-tracey6206]

Striking animals.

[@mywildlifeclips6142]

You are quite right Tracy, I'm surprised they don't put each others eyes out when they are rubbing heads.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Quite true.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

If you happen to mean whenever the bulls fight each other over certain cows in heat for mating, just say so plainly?