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Highland cattle

a breed of cattle with shaggy hair, usually reddish-brown in colour, and long horns
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Highland cattle have been on the farm since 2005 and after "falling in love" with the breed, the couple established the Cragganvallie fold in 2015 with females purchased from the west coast including heifers from the Ardbhan fold on North Uist.
"Chance the Snapper has nothing on these udderly amazing' Highland Cattle," read one tweet, referring to Chicago's infamous alligator.
If I ever decided to sell out and downsize, I thought to myself, I'd have a small group of Highland cattle to keep me company.
Mabie Farm Park has plenty of indoor and outdoor rides and attractions as well as Highland cattle, llamas, shire horses and Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs.
Paintings sold to pounds 450 for an oil of Highland Cattle by Henry Bates Joel.
INDIA An Indian girl, wearing traditional attire, poses for photographers as she along with others perform the Garba, a traditional dance of western Indian state of Gujarat, as part of preparation for Navratri festival in Ahmadabad (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) SCOTLAND Maisie, a seven-year-old Highland Cow is washed down by live stock apprentice Melissa Sinclair and Stockman Matt Auld ahead of the International Highland Cattle Show being held at Pollock Country Park in Glasgow.
* The Miles Smith Farm in Loudon, owned by Carol Soule and Bruce Dawson, is the recipient of a $64,950 grant for a feasibility study to help develop a business plan for the farm's free-range Scottish Highland Cattle beef products.
Breeds of large cattle which most closely resemble Bos primigenius, such as Highland cattle and the white Maremma breed from Italy, are being bred with each other in a technique known as "back-breeding".
The collection sold here, which was originally consigned to the auction from a deceased estate in Wolverhampton, included a rare pair of circular wall plaques dating from 1917 painted with Highland cattle set within a mountainous landscape by John Stinton.
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