Chaos With My Horse & Im Stuck In Work!!!

Their Highland coo's!!! aww how lovely. Hmm there a rare breed, think they use them for beef but there not like the old aberdeen or limousin for quantity. aww they are cute and baby highlands look like teddy bears before they get there horns. Lots of grass there too, but is this pic old. Cant tell you if its mum and dad but probs likely or could be mum, last years calf and this years calf.
 
they are highlands and are beef cattle. The one at the front is mum, then calf and a yearling and I'd say either a young bull (the horns as a grown bull's horns a a lot longer) or bullock and they are usually very docile and good round horses but the calves can be scatty and you look to have them in knee deep grass, lucky them.
 
Thats it, highland cows!! :D

The farmer did say that they were valuable, not really my concern though. If they were that valuable the owner should have sorted out some fields for them before buying them!

The picture is old. I had actually planned to move my mare into that field the week the cows arrived as she is a poor doer and needs lots of good, lush grass to keep weight on as she loses it very quickly otherwise!

This is what that field is like now from having the cows on it:

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And this is the other field that i had mine on while the cows were in that one:

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Usually i would rest one while i graze the other so i always have grass for the horses. Unfortunately, these have to see my two horses through the winter...!!! With the cows due to be there til November as well...
 
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I think you need to ask for a rent reduction and defo your 4 bales returned. ok only 4 but 4 days worth of food in the winter. its not fair that they are eating your grass and you are not getting a rent reduction if you pay for all these fields. We have highlands at our work for the children to look at, there pretty cool and chilled out, unlike the dexters that share there field. surely the owner of the cattle could sell the bullock and get lots of money and then rent/buy his own fields and pay for 4 bales of hay???
 
bay_beasty said:
I think you need to ask for a rent reduction and defo your 4 bales returned. ok only 4 but 4 days worth of food in the winter. its not fair that they are eating your grass and you are not getting a rent reduction if you pay for all these fields. We have highlands at our work for the children to look at, there pretty cool and chilled out, unlike the dexters that share there field. surely the owner of the cattle could sell the bullock and get lots of money and then rent/buy his own fields and pay for 4 bales of hay???
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4 bales of hay from the guy i get mine from would only cost £8, im sure he could cough that up without even having to sell a yak! :D I know its a very small amount, but it has annoyed me that i've not even had so much as an apology there and he made no attempt to fence his cows away from my hay and food, the YO only did that on my insistance after i had to move my remaining 8 or so bales of hay away so the cows didnt eat the lot. He honestly doesnt seem to care about them.

People keep telling me they're nice natured, but that big one is bloomin' evil!!! REALLY bad tempered!
 
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