Anyone have Scottish Highland cattle??

[laughingllama75]

Well, lets see..........so far, ours get of Electric (cant feel the shock), cattle panels (they laugh at them), and 5 foot steel horse round pen panels (they go under and bend them). nice personalities, hard to keep in. Good luck with yours, LOL. I find they do much better, when on a large piece of land with other cattle. They will not stay in, if they dont have other cattle........

 

[MsMcChick]

Excellent! Good to know

I'm planning to put up woven wire fencing with 3 hot wires from top to bottom.......but i haven't done it yet. Right now i have 4 strands of hot electric wire around the pasture, but I put her in with the goats and she jumped into and out of the water trough then crashed through the cattle panel, made it look like a tree fell on it! She's been living in the horse trailer ever since.
She's quite a character though. She's handleable now and almost can be bribed with grain (she didn't seem to know what it was before she came home with me), but I like to be able to go out and shake a bucket and have them come-a-runnin. Bribery gets me what I want, LOL

She loves to be curried and have her face and cheeks scritched, and will stand completely still with her head pushed up and out to have me brush her neck. It's the funniest thing to see! She's a deep dark red, kind of like a herford-black mix. Now that i've got most of the long, dead clumps of hair out she's looking good. I need to trim her hooves but soon i think i'll try her out on the pasture with the horses....maybe. I have no other cattle, but i've been considering getting something. My friend who bought the pregnant highland cow says if it's a heifer calf that I can have her. She wants a bull calf to butcher, but that's a wait until May. hmm...to buy or not to buy, LOL, what a quandry

 

[MsMcChick]

Well, we went out walking last night. She dun gud!!

lol We put 2 halters on her and my daughter hooked a leadrope on one side and i hooked another to the opposite side, and we got her out of the trailer. I expected her to hop, skip and jump, but she just stood and looked around. After a few minutes she got frisky, but it was pretty tame. Then she started eating the clover. Life was good

I even got the trailer cleaned out. I forgot how much of a mess cows can make in so short a time. It was actually nice to go scoop cow dung. My daughter didn't see the humor in it. She was named Pumpernickle because she's that color, but it's been shortned to Nikky..not such a mouthful. We'll see how tonight goes. Maybe i'll try the pasture thing sooner than i thought.

 

[maran man]

Hi I know this thread is dead but I was wondering if anyone that dealed with highlanders knows if any are around Hinton WV.