Are highlands good for hobby farms and homesteads?
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- Many small hobby farms and homesteaders are interested in Scottish Highlands. In this video I talk about my opinion on the pros and cons for this breed of cow on a small farm.
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Highland cattle are not only grazers,but browsers. They can survive on marginal land,even clearing undergrowth. They are long living,so they have a long breeding life. They have other unique points; there own collective noun...a group is called "a fold" rather than a herd. Whilst their fringe is a dozen. After all they are the oldest accredited breed in the world.
All good points. It is hard for me to call them a fold, I'm so used to calling cows we raised in the past a herd.
Wow I had no clue they were the oldest. That's pretty amazing
I love how, in Scotland, even the cows are ginger.
Narrator: Scottish Highlands cattle are known to be a very docile, friendly breed!
Cattle: Proceeds to create sort of a ruckus including several valiant attempts at goring each other
Haha ya they can still be dangerous
All livestock are like that. My goats ND sheep are like that with each other
As someone who’s Scottish I had honestly no idea American farms had highland cattle that’s so fascinating to me! I love highland cows and I’m glad the world gets to share them too 😁
Do these cattle tolerate heat? They’re awful woolly. I’ve always wanted some of these.
@@dreyno64 I honestly don’t know how well since they are really furry, I’ve only ever known them in Scotland which is a cool country. I don’t know how they would handle heat sorry
The “Heeland Coos” as they call them in Scotland.
@@dreyno64 they tolerate heat pretty well i know farm here in Georgia usa that has some but there are a highlands cows all over the world there in Australia and even in south america
@@bambam-ei1gr I’m in Arkansas so if they can tolerate GA they should be good here. They’re just a beautiful animal.
Fancy caws! Super kawaii!!!
Love their hair, horns, and also how they behave.
Real creatures popping out from fantasy. Thank you so much for showing this video.
cheers from Japan.
when you spread food out on the ground for highlands....you got to spread it out in an arc over a much greater distance than you have done in this video. Highlands have a very strict dominance.....the dominant cows will stand over the food and stop any lower ranked cow or calf from getting any food. this causes problems as the winter progresses, the lower ranked cows get thinner and thinner, the lower ranked cows will get no food. Either place the food in small heaps about 15 feet apart in an arc or spread the food very lightly over a long distance..do not spread in a straight line.....if you do you will get cows running back wards and forwards along the line to find a spot between more dominant animals........spread in an arc....as the cattle move along the arc of food.....they fall off the end then run back to the start......to repeat..with an arc they can see the start position.......if food is in a straight line they have to run the full length of the line to start again...Also recommend energy blocks during the winter....which we use in Scotland....the cattle can get plenty dry matter from the grasses but lack sugar and energy.......as a tip....with highlands you must tie all your gates at both ends....highland bulls frequently learn how to flip off a gate with their horns......if a highland want to go somewhere they consider fences as a mere temporary barrier......you got some nice highlands there......may i recommend a couple of books with lots of info on highlands..." A Keen Eye Keeps the Cattle" Una Cochrane and "The Drove Roads of Scotland" A. R. B. Haldane
Hi Ian, thanks for the recommendations, I would like to read those books. I do use large mineral and protein tubs throughout the winter. Also I do feed much more protein cubes in a more distributed way in the winter. For video it's hard because I want them to be on camera and it's hard to spread it out over a long distance. When I feed cubes in the winter I typically use a series of bunk feeders. Thanks for the suggestions, always looking to learn!
Not if you plan on eating them......how could you not fall in love with these guys?
I just learned about them and now I'm binge watching your videos.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I am retired now, first saw Scottish Highland cattle at the Minnesota state fair in the late 1990's. I was impressed by them and if I had taken a different path in life may have done something like you are doing. Nice herd.
They are awesome animals, lots good farms in MN
Was it from Blue Ox Farms?? Michael McDermott raised Scottish Hughlanders and Belgian Blues. If so, that’s my uncle!
@@BeowulfAbroad I can't remember where exactly he was from, I just remember he said South Eastern Minnesota, somewhere by Rochester.
Welcome...I am a subscriber on Adler Farms. Your Scottish Highland cattle are beautiful.
It has amazed me how much our goals are inline with each other. We got our cows to keep the pasture eat down and just hope to make enough off them to sustain themselves. We bought 3 pregnant cows last year and just brought home our first bull a couple weeks ago. Glad I found someone doing exact what we are doing. Keep up the good work!
thats awesome, they are such cool animals! thanks for the encouragement and good luck with yours! what state are you in?
We are in Kentucky.
Awesome Video! Awsome Cows! Or have your cows go downtown for a night on the town. If you have a mini ranch or farm to keep these critters, your going to need the toys! Tractors and implements. You will need the tractors for other jobs then cow tasks.
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Love the videos! Very informative 🥰
Very informative and interesting. Thank you!
I’m so glad to find this! I’m in Oklahoma as well, and was wondering just this about this breed.
Chad from Adler Farm sent me your way!!
Thank you for the insight.
Outstanding. Tks for sharing.
Thank you for the very informational video! It was so helpful!
Thanks for the video Rhett. Take care God bless
I recently discovered your channel and feel like I found a kindred spirit! I also work from home as a business consultant crunching numbers and spreadsheets but am building a hobby farm with my husband. I'm interested in getting either Angus or Highland cattle so your content is so helpful!
They are so cute!!
Adler Farms sent me over.
I must admit that I just love your cattle.
They are spectacular! I’m looking forward to following you on your journey.
One of my favorites for sure.
Still watching and truly enjoyed watching the videos
So happy for you getting new cow hope her calf is great. I ready have enjoyed watching your channel every scence Chad from Adler farms when he got Mc Fred . Thank you for sharing.
So cute watching them eat!
gorgeous highlands!
Gosh I love Scottish highlands soo much. They are simply so beautiful. Thanks for the video.
do you mean the cows or the area
@@javierhillier4252 the cows lol I’ve never been to Scotland
@@alexism1127 ok
@@javierhillier4252 We ken Scotland is beautiful.
Hey sir, great video! We raise Highland Cattle in New Zealand and I totally agree with your comments in this video!!
Thank you, I've always wanted to see New Zealand. Looks like beautiful country!
We are about to embark on this journey with 40 acres. Glad this content is out there.
Bro... awesome content. Helpful & informative. Entertaining & easy to watch. Keep it up, God bless
Hope to add a few someday soon. Great vid
Thank you! Hope you get some heilen coos someday!
Fantastic love from Finland
I follow you on my TV for a while Im going to be getting them this fall or summer want milk cows but so I can get beef to but I've always liked these cows but didn't know they where that available in the states so I love watching your videos I her they do real well in ND thank you for showing them!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you are planning on getting some. I don't know anyone personally who milks them, but it would be a great project to try. They have been going for high prices lately, but keep looking and you will find some!
Beautiful coos! Hi from Texas!
What a great video! thank you! Though my family is in OK I have a 10 acre (5 maybe 7 is pasture) in Colorado. I am looking at raising mini highland cattle for profit and self sufficiency. Where in OK are you located? We need to do some fence repairs and have structures for them already. We have coyotes out here (we don’t have mountain lions, bears and wolves where we are thank goodness) but have one LGD and will be adding another hopefully soon so they can work as a team. I am so excited but want to be prepared before we bring home the new additions.
So true, after many hours office bound, getting out into open nature is Soooo relaxing, refreshing and calming. Great to get clean fresh natural air, co.pared with stale, conditioned air. Though at least these days virtually all offices have NO SMOKING, sadly there are still smokers around, stinking of stale cigarette, or worse pipe or cigar spreading the stench. Give me fresh, even farm odours, natural air over that enclosed office air.
you are the Scottish Highland Cow Whisperer ......very informative video....Thank You!
Haha well I know there are much more knowledgeable people on highlands than I am, but thank you
Funny I came across your video cause we’re considering getting highlands and I’m also a financial advisor
Wow i want a highland cows
thank mate
I was asking a farmer about his highland cattle at a show. When I mentioned that I was doing research to own some in the future (like years down the road), his response was to roll his eyes and to tell me that as a city girl I shouldn't bother.
Don't list to him, there are lots of good people out there that raise highlands that would be glad to help you. And also glad to hear that you're interested in the breed.
Outer fence needs to be able to deal with a full-grown bull of whatever breed you run. Greg Judy practices regenerative grazing using interior electric fencing and keeping the cattle out of the pond, using movable auto-fill troughs to provide water. Keeping the cattle moving is the key to developing good grazing with minimal inputs. He prefers horn-less (polled) breeds. I wonder if Highland cattle could be used instead. Do they shed and can the hair be spun? Is the milk fat enough to become cheese?
Those cows could take him down and take over the farm in a minute, but they got no means to organize and no interest in holding power. Truly a noble animal.
A few of them have tried to stage a coup, but their uprising was thwarted
Hey y'all, Thank you for all the good information regarding the cost, work expenditure and acreage to graze. You really are responsible to do your research to know what you are getting into. take care bye for now
Hi ! ... Came over on the reccomendation of Chad from Adler Farms. Hope we have lots in common. Talk again soon!
Thanks,👋❤️🙏
They r so cut how cud you kill that cuteness
Hi heard of you from Adler farm
I would like to get into this with 10 acres, and just learn as much as possible with operational, logistics, financial, and time management. If you have some time or resources I would love to spend some time figuring this exciting adventure out. Looking forward to putting in a lot of work.
Look up Greg Judy. He’s a rancher in Missouri & goes over all that stuff
Scottie fur beasts....
Processing can be an issue as butchers don’t want to deal with horns. Great video!
I have heard that as well about the horns. Thanks!
Very helpful!! I was leaning toward Dexters but just recently someone suggested Highlands since they have a slower metabolism and are generally healthy. I wondered if they were dual purpose, so I'm glad you addressed that.
I appreciate you going through the supplies needed. Do you think halter training cows would help to get them around? Not sure if you can do that with horned cows.
Do you have a video addressing common sicknesses (you mentioned scours).
We do have several that are halter trained and that has definitely been helpful at times. I don’t have many videos about their health, but the main issue we have faced is fly stike
Love the intro music, sounds a bit like Led Zeppelin's bron y r stomp. I love Highland cows they beautiful creatures. But I'm biased as I am Scottish.
Anyways great video and great background music.
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I wonder if the "wool" fiber from the highlands is marketable, too? I read that they like being brushed and their winter coats shed out and can be gathered by brushing. That would make them profitable in 3 ways, in addition to helping pasture health with proper management.
Apparently the fur is suitable to make yarn out of. No idea if it's commonplace or profitable for the effort. But it can be done
Highland cattle also make pretty good light oxen. You're not gonna pull a Conestoga with a pair, but plowing and light carts..... No problem. Think of a grass fueled Kabota tractor.
soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo very sweet!
We have some land in North Texas (just south of the Oklahoma border, west of Sherman-Denison) and are looking into Highland cattle. Thanks for sharing this information on your channel as we start to research this. Do you mentor new owners? lol. We will be living on the farm but my husband will be working full time from home and I work very part time from home, so we will mostly be raising beef for our family as well as wanting to provide our own milk, and won't be working the farm full time. We are very excited to move out there. This is land my great grandparents owned and has been ranched and farmed ever since. We have a cousin out there now who raises cattle, but a different kind.
Thats awesome, congratulations. I'm glad to help however I can. Thanks for watching my videos. I would suggest joining the American highland cattle association and the south central highland association. Lots of great people who are willing to help
Nice hat
I'm so excited to find you! We have a little hobby farm here in Oklahoma and we call it 15 acre wood!! We are wanting to get some Scottish highland cows so I'm going to be watching your videos in preparation for it! Do you sell your cows?
Thats great, yes I do sell calves when I have them available. My next round of calves probably won't be available until year end or so
@@100AcreWoodHighlands awesome! Do you advertise them on your fb page or do you have a contact that we can use to possibly buy from you?
I have a website Www.100acrewoodhighlands.com but I'm also on fb
I had the same question 👍 Will contact you about calves in the future 🌈
Would you consider dehorning your calves? I know that hurts the value of some breeds but over time it would eliminate some problems.
Howdy from the City..Boston. met you following Chad.. interested in the highlands myself. thinking of buying in NH.. will they survive in the Northeast? can't wait to see your Farm..
Yes there are actually some very good highland ranches in NH
"Typically today, they're raised as beef cows." - Cattle in the background looks up like "What did he just say?!"
Yes he looks up like Say what???
Music sounds like Sam Beam 🥰
It looks like a lot of work to brush them out. What kind of brush do you use? 😯
How do the Highlanders do in the incredibly hot days of summer in OK? I live in Missouri and was researching Highlanders to raise here
Lol. Looks like someone is playing with his food. Lol. The Highlands are so beautiful.
Hi, I recently purchased 40 acres at nearly 8k feet of elevation. As I clear my pasture I have been considering the best livestock. As a new to cattle rancher with children I would prefer cattle that I am more likely to be able to handle and is polled as I learn. I believe that a crossbreed between Scottish Highlanders, Dexters, and eventually in order to increase the marbling(once we understand cattle better) some wagyu semen would be best for us.
As I said our pastures will be quite high. So... yeah the heartiness of the highlands seems essential. What would you say would be the best resources when considering establishing a herd? I do not want dwarfism and the associated health risks but I would still prefer a smaller breed to start that can manage the snow. Do you know of anyone that sells healthy small Highlands or Highland/Dexter cross breeds. Any info would be greatly appreciated
Raising Highlands in Oklahoma is like raising an Okie in Scotland.
I know this is an old video so i might not get a reply, but i also live in oklahoma and was wondering how often these cows need to be trimmed during the summers?
We don’t trim ours, typically people only trim them for cattle shows. Mine do shed some of the hair in the summer naturally though
Had you kept cattle before? I'm looking at highlands as my first large livestock (after some sheep and ducks), and hearing concern about the horns. They seem perfect for my property otherwise. Smaller, docile, efficient feeders... Like I said, other boxes all ticked.
my family raised angus most of my life through high school. Then we didn't have cows for about 8 years and when I decided I wanted my own this was the breed I went with. The horns for us so far haven't been a big problem. You probably need to be a little cautious around them and getting them in a chute may be difficult, but I think they're worth it.
i have horses on my property and was thinking about getting a highland cow, will they be fine with horses, or should i have multiple cows?
I’m in the process of buying 10 acres in sulphur ok that has really great pasture and a 1 acre pond. My wife and I are looking at raising some highland cows. Any advice for some future newbies?
Hey Brandon, I would say my main piece of advice on brand new to having calves would be to find someone close by who you can always go to for questions. I've got several people around my area that I'm constantly turning to when I don't know the answer to a problem. Other than that, good fences are a great place to start. I'm not too far from you, in the Blanchard area. Good luck and congrats on the new land!
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We just purchased 2 steer about a month ago. We have 21 acres and wanted something that could be a pasture mate for our halflinger horse and keep the pastures down. They are half brothers, one just turned a year old last week and the other is a little over a year old. The youngest is the most docile and our horse is definitely top of the pecking order. The issue we are having is with the older one. He’s been sort of charging us (I guess you would call it that) and it gets a bit scary. Is this normal? How do we curb this behavior? They were raised with other highlands until we got them last month and were handled daily by the family. We are guessing he’s trying to assert dominance, but we aren’t sure. Please do not comment if you intend to be hateful or make rude comments. I’m looking for suggestions to make his life happy and ours too! Thx!!
It definitely could be an assertive thing that the steer is doing. Do you scratch his head? I have had many cattle people tell me it's a bad idea, because they learn to push against it and they can accidentally hurt you very bad. I keep a cattle paddle near me when I work them that way if they charge at me or anything like that I can quickly scare them away. Be careful because even though many cows and bulls can be docile they are still dangerous, good luck!
@@100AcreWoodHighlands I just actually learned that earlier today. We are really trying to do our research and do things right. We have been petting his head but won’t anymore. Today the issue with my son (22) seemed to be food related. The day before with me he was licking my hand and being sweet and next thing I knew he was coming at me. We will get it figured out. I’ll look into cattle pads. I really think some of it is him trying to find his place in the “herd” and some is us just being green with highlands/cattle etc. We will get it figured out. Thanks for your help!
Good deal, it's tough to not scratch them on the head. Get a cattle brush and brush under their neck or on their sides if you want to be able to touch them. It's a lot safer it seems to me
what if I just want one for a pet? just to take care of and love?
They are very adorable docile animals but some individuals particularlly bulls can be a bit aggressive.
Absolutely! I've been kicked at, stepped on, and had horns swung at me. They're generally docile, but you always need to be careful
How many acres do you need per highland mini cow?
Are highland Cows a "cuddly" type of cow? More specifically, do they like having affection given to them by you?
They're such interesting animals and very pretty
Just like any other animal they each have different personalities. I have 3 that like to be touched and brushed, but most don't really want to be touched.
Do you prefer the woven wire fence or the barbed wire fence
Most of our farm is barbed wire, but the area right around the house has woven wire with barbed wire on top
Oh ok I was just wondering because I’m planning on getting some highlands myself and I wasn’t sure about the fencing because growing up we had sheep and goats and only used the woven wire fence
can they defend against wolfs?
just wondering if highlands can actually put their horns to good use?
I'm not in an area with wolves, but we do have coyotes. I've seen my cows chase off dogs with their horns too. A wolf is a pretty serious predator though, I'm not sure how they would do
I could not bring myself to use these any of these beauties as beef haha. If I am considering of keeping them as a long term pet, how many should I keep in order to avoid things like depression and loneliness?
Since they are herd animals they definitely need other cow companions. Two or three together would be fine though
Even if they don’t have horns they can be dangerous their strongHighland baby calf’s our cute. How heavy do the Scottish cows and bulls weigh an length ? How long does it take for a cow to have a calf ? Do you trim their hoof’s and give them vaccinations .
What are highlands costing these days?
Ancient breed is still half wild! Require constant attention or their wild side comes out. Sold mine they were a pain!
Highland cows have no right to be this adorable
What are the "cubes" you're talking about?
Protein cubes are just a protein supplement. They're honestly not shaped like a cube at all, but that's what many people around here call them
Your herd looks very small compared to the full-grown ones I seen. Are yours just younger, or a smaller version?
Hi, What is the cows name at 12:30 time stamp? I am an artist I painted this beautiful cow 🎨
I call number 22 Goldie. I would love to see the painting
Continued from last video: Yes, that's the bison breeder, Cross Timber. Listen--two bison are "a bit wild", 20 are, depending on their mood, a train wreck, a hurricane, an earthquake, you name it. Geez, don't tell him I said anything, he may take away my tee shirt. Cheers and best wishes, JL
Aw, he only had one jailbreak this year where they were walking down the road....
I’m in Tulsa what to sell one?
Would it be OK to have two of these on 5.5 acres?
Yea
Oklahoma is a Southern territory and the Highlands were bred for colder climates. They’re probably miserable for places like where I live in Tennessee. Too Hot! But, I’d talk to folks in the Nordic countries they come from. I’d like one just to look at…They’re so darn cute!
People all over the US raise them I know several people in Texas and Louisiana have them where it's even warmer. They have plenty of shade and fresh water and do just fine
Get some harness , and turn the collar upside-down ,then use them to pull out firewood ect.
Or just carve out a yoke, it's not that hard (yes I've done it).
@@JohnDoe-zl6ph what's a yoke?
@@GOAT_GOATERSON a yoke is a piece of wood goes on the top of the cows neck. Look up ox yoke a pic will explain it much better.
@@JohnDoe-zl6ph ohhh, yeah, I know what it is but I didn't know how it was called in English
The dog was like...is there something to do with me?
He is a good pup
Why do you keep the horns on the cows?
Maybe tennis balls glued in place could make the horns less dangerous.