Lowline cattle

[thousandhills]

I have many questions on lowline cattle.

First do they require less pasture than regular sized cattle?
Can you milk them? Are they good at grazing and producing the most meat for there pasture?

Let me know please.

[DJ in WA]

If you google Lowline cattle, you can get articles like this:

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/c...line/index.htm

You can milk any female mammal (mice are somewhat challenging). Whether they give you enough milk depends on your needs. Lowline angus are a beef breed, not usually milked. You could probably steal a quart or two a day from them if you wanted.

You can cross them with Jersey to make a nice little cow for milking, then breed her to a small beef bull to get a beefy calf. After breeding to lowlines the first few times, I now plan to breed my Jersey/lowline cow to a standard size red angus bull who throws small calves. Small cow who milks well and produces beefy polled calves larger than her - works for me.

I assume you know lowlines are pretty expensive. Cheapest to get semen from a bull and cross with standard cows to get into them.