Hamish the Highland Cow

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The Danish Highland Cattle Society was established in 1987 to promote the best practices for the breeding and care of Highland cattle and to promote the introduction of the breed into Denmark. [16] Finland [ edit ] He was the oldest bull in the UK without doubt. We entered him for the Guinness Book of Records but apparently there was just one older than him - in India - so he was certainly the second oldest in the world.” Campbell, John R; Douglas Kenealy, M.; Campbell, Karen L. (2009). Animal Sciences: The Biology, Care, and Production of Domestic Animals (4thed.). Waveland Press. p.299. ISBN 978-1-4786-0821-9. Highland Cattle history in Canada". Canadian Highland Cattle Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015 . Retrieved 28 April 2015. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing -

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Highland Cattle at Balmoral Castle". Archived from the original on 27 April 2015 . Retrieved 7 June 2015.The gentle giant first came into the spotlight in 1996 when he joined the Stirling Smith to help promote a centenary exhibition of the work of Cambuskenneth animal artist Joseph Denovan Adam (1841-1896). Serif, S. M.; Johnson, H. D.; Lippincott, A. C. (March 1979). "The effects of heat exposure (31°C) on zebu and Scottish Highland cattle". International Journal of Biometeorology. 23 (1): 9–14. Bibcode: 1979IJBm...23....9S. doi: 10.1007/BF01553372. PMID 500248. S2CID 33123426. These cattle were important to the Scottish economy of the eighteenth century. At markets such as those of Falkirk or Crieff, many were bought by drovers from England, who moved them south over the Pennines to be fattened for slaughter. In 1723 over 30 000 Scottish cattle were sold into England. [5] :243

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James Wilson (1909). The Colours of Highland Cattle. The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society. 12 (New Series): 66–76. Breeding occurred in May and June, with heifers first giving birth at 2–3 years old. [26] Use [ edit ] North East Highland Cattle– About the Breed" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2015 . Retrieved 14 September 2015.

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His loss has devastated staff at The Trossachs Woollen Mill at Kilmahog, near Callander, where he was one of their most popular attractions. Although a group of cattle is generally called a herd, a group of Highland cattle is known as a "fold". This is because in winter, the cattle were kept in open shelters made of stone called folds to protect them from the weather at night. [8] a b c d e f Breed data sheet: Highland / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Cattle). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed November 2022. A breed society was established in 1884, and in 1885 published the first volume of the herd-book. In this the two types were recorded without distinction as 'Highland'. [6] :200 Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.