Rural Gardening: Chatty chat cock- a doodle- doooo, 0 by dordles

dordles wrote:
Hi Grownut. Belties (as we call them) originated in Scotland and are primarily a meat animal, though I guess you could milk one if you were set up to do it. They have huge udders when they calve. They are classed as a Rare Breed. We're not too good on the killing animals thing so breed purebreds for other people's herds. They have only 2% fat as they have a double coat so don't put on much fat. Quite small, about the size of a Dexter and very quiet.

Your comments on city versus country folk is true to some extent here. However, more and more city people are leaving the rat-race and opting for the country lifestyle, so must be bringing some brains in LOL! We won't know the difference soon!

We are ex-city as well and wouldn't go back for anything. LOVE the country.

Frans530, we used to have Dexters - a truly triple purpose animal! You can milk them, (they produce more milk pro rata than some of the milking breeds), they are also a beef breed and can be used for pulling carts etc, as they do in Ireland. You can get miniatures in both the above breeds - only about 90cms - oops sorry - 3 feet high.

Dords