They can eat what other cattle pass up. They are excellent browsers, able to clear the thickest brush. Their meat is a marbled, fine grained beef that is lean, but of very good quality and taste. They cross well with other breeds, such as Jersey and Angus, to produce fine meat. Black was once the most popular color, but today the most common colors are red or tan.
Colors range from white, silver and dun through reddish brown, brindle and black.
See black Highlands, Rosaleen, calf Iska, and bull, Marlon . See red Highland cows with black bull, Shadow . For those with little or poor acreage, these are the perfect cattle to raise with little effort and expense. Today there are less than 10,000 worldwide, with many in the USA and Canada. Author Bio Mother Hildegard George is one of the 8 nuns at the Benedictine monastery called The Priory of Our Lady of the Rock, located on Shaw Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington state.