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<blockquote data-quote="darcelina4" data-source="post: 1531702" data-attributes="member: 27059"><p>I have 2 year old highland shorthorn hairy heifer in central Oklahoma. The negatives are that in the heat she likes to stand in the shade in a pool of water as she gets hot. She does have much shorter hair in the summer than in the winter. She also has a strong personality. She loves my daughter and tolerates me. Doeant care for strangers. She was shown and did ok. She could get pissy by the end of the day so not a good one for showmanship. Positives-easy keeper, gets along in a group. Best part of her is as a cow. She did have the misfortune that her calf caught a bug at 6 days old and did not respond to treatment and died in 24 hours. But she is very milky and cooperative. She is doing a great job as a nurse cow. She was nursing 2 calves. We brought home an Angus Brangus 3 day old heifer that we planned to put on a jersey. She saw that baby coming and pushed everybody out of the way to get to her. Started licking her like she had just birthed her. She adopted her right there. She kept nursing her steer but she kicked the brangus bull calf off. He just went to the jersey. The steer went away so for a couple if months she was just nursing the heifer. Heifer is huge. Now she is letting whatever calf wants to steal can. She is bred back due in march again. I am going to keep using her as a nurse cow as she has so much milk. She is not very tall but has good length and great depth. I've been around other highlands that don't have her volume. I think crossing them is a great idea. I would go for something bigger than an Angus. I'm using shorthorn but next year I'm going to breed her to either a brangus or gelbvieh or a Maine. Her first calf was a 78 pound bull.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darcelina4, post: 1531702, member: 27059"] I have 2 year old highland shorthorn hairy heifer in central Oklahoma. The negatives are that in the heat she likes to stand in the shade in a pool of water as she gets hot. She does have much shorter hair in the summer than in the winter. She also has a strong personality. She loves my daughter and tolerates me. Doeant care for strangers. She was shown and did ok. She could get pissy by the end of the day so not a good one for showmanship. Positives-easy keeper, gets along in a group. Best part of her is as a cow. She did have the misfortune that her calf caught a bug at 6 days old and did not respond to treatment and died in 24 hours. But she is very milky and cooperative. She is doing a great job as a nurse cow. She was nursing 2 calves. We brought home an Angus Brangus 3 day old heifer that we planned to put on a jersey. She saw that baby coming and pushed everybody out of the way to get to her. Started licking her like she had just birthed her. She adopted her right there. She kept nursing her steer but she kicked the brangus bull calf off. He just went to the jersey. The steer went away so for a couple if months she was just nursing the heifer. Heifer is huge. Now she is letting whatever calf wants to steal can. She is bred back due in march again. I am going to keep using her as a nurse cow as she has so much milk. She is not very tall but has good length and great depth. I've been around other highlands that don't have her volume. I think crossing them is a great idea. I would go for something bigger than an Angus. I'm using shorthorn but next year I'm going to breed her to either a brangus or gelbvieh or a Maine. Her first calf was a 78 pound bull. [/QUOTE]
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