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<blockquote data-quote="Cattle Rack Rancher" data-source="post: 283098" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>Well, I'll throw in my two cents. As a money maker, I probably wouldn't recommend Highland cattle. They are pretty interesting to look at, though. For the most part, they are pretty quiet although I had a couple that were pretty hard to work. They are the only cows i've ever seen that had blue eyes. I had two like that and they were quite striking. The horns are nothing to worry about. Although when they get in around the bale feeder, I've been hit a couple of times when I was cutting the strings. Not maliciously but just because of crowding but watch them in the chute. They're pretty quick with their feet and I was kicked a couple of times. They are prone to bad feet, so that's something to watch for because although they may live to a good age, I've had to ship cows that were less than ten years old just because they were limping and cutting their toe nails doesn't seem to help. They can climb like a billy goat with those short legs and I've seen one go about 8' straight up the side of a newly excavated dugout bank. The calves whether crossed or not, are usually fuzzy and they get docked at the salebarn pretty hard. The meat is excellent due mostly to the muscle strands being smaller and less coarse. Even in older cows, the steaks seem to be pretty good. If you cross them, it wouldn't hurt to feed up the butcher calves with a bit of grain. I crossed a couple to Simmental and found finishing them on grass to be pretty hard. As I said, though, unless you have a market for the meat, they'd be tough to make money on. I only have a couple left and mostlythey are just there for lawn ornaments. Good Luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattle Rack Rancher, post: 283098, member: 245"] Well, I'll throw in my two cents. As a money maker, I probably wouldn't recommend Highland cattle. They are pretty interesting to look at, though. For the most part, they are pretty quiet although I had a couple that were pretty hard to work. They are the only cows i've ever seen that had blue eyes. I had two like that and they were quite striking. The horns are nothing to worry about. Although when they get in around the bale feeder, I've been hit a couple of times when I was cutting the strings. Not maliciously but just because of crowding but watch them in the chute. They're pretty quick with their feet and I was kicked a couple of times. They are prone to bad feet, so that's something to watch for because although they may live to a good age, I've had to ship cows that were less than ten years old just because they were limping and cutting their toe nails doesn't seem to help. They can climb like a billy goat with those short legs and I've seen one go about 8' straight up the side of a newly excavated dugout bank. The calves whether crossed or not, are usually fuzzy and they get docked at the salebarn pretty hard. The meat is excellent due mostly to the muscle strands being smaller and less coarse. Even in older cows, the steaks seem to be pretty good. If you cross them, it wouldn't hurt to feed up the butcher calves with a bit of grain. I crossed a couple to Simmental and found finishing them on grass to be pretty hard. As I said, though, unless you have a market for the meat, they'd be tough to make money on. I only have a couple left and mostlythey are just there for lawn ornaments. Good Luck. [/QUOTE]
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