After many months of gentle (and not-so-gentle) persuasion, Eliza's mum has allowed Guy to borrow her Highland cattle to breed with.Maggie, Linnhe, Morag and Isabelle arrived this morning, and as I look out the window now they're settling down eating some hay in the laneway.
Highlands are a rare breed, according to the Rare Breeds Trust of Australia, so we're hoping we can help build their numbers up. We're borrowing a bull in the next week ... so it's all go!
Linnhe and Isabelle
Maggie and Morag
Neither of us have eaten Highland beef before, but a Scottish chef - who just happened to be visiting this morning while the cattle were being delivered - told us it's tender, marbled meat with egg-shell coloured fat.
It'll be a little while till we have any at eating stage, but we're looking forward to having our own rare-breed beef to go with our rare-breed pork, chicken and duck.
Hi Guy and Eliza, we're just about to leave Portugal and head to Highland cattle country. They are beautiful...way too cute to eat! Prof eats anything however so let us know when they're ready to plate up!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Colette
It'll certainly be hard Colette, and I don't know whether I'll be able to get a hide made into a shagpile rug either...
ReplyDeleteBut I can't wait till we have calves. They look just like teddy bears, incredibly fluffy.
Safe travels,
Eliza