09/02/2024
Ingredients and Recipe
To create real miniature highlands, a breeder must have proven ingredients and proven recipes. Knowing how to breed to get top results is crucial, but without the correct genetic ingredients, the best recipe will not produce.
It takes decades of selection to produce the correct ingredients and an in-depth knowledge of your stock to make the best performing pairings.
Each generation should produce calves of higher quality than the last. If your breeder is unable to produce calves that outperform the parents, find another breeder.
Better to be on a waiting list for the real deal than to pay full price for a fake, especially if you plan to breed.
Your breeder’s reputation becomes your reputation if you plan to breed. Choose wisely.
Pictured here is one of our up and coming boys, Patent, sired by Thor out of Pearl. Patent is non chondro yet is the same height as our micro mini registered Dexter cows. Patent is the result of excellent genetic ingredients and a successful pairing recipe.
The second photo is of Pearl’s chondro positive micro heifer, Paisley. Paisley is another example of an offspring that outperforms her parents.
This breed needs breeders who will be caretakers. There are far too many “get rich quick, regardless of the damage done to the breed” breeders.
