Le vacche delle Highland e i loro giovani fotografati vicino a Kirkland, nei Northern Pennines, in Cumbria. Le Highland sono una razza tradizionale della Scozia occidentale.
3984 x 2752 px | 33,7 x 23,3 cm | 13,3 x 9,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
30 ottobre 2018
Ubicazione:
Cumbria
Altre informazioni:
Highland Cows and their young photographed near Kirkland in the Northern Pennines, Cumbria. The Highland is a traditional breed of western Scotland. There were two distinct types. The Kyloe, reared mainly in the Hebrides or Western Islands, was small and was frequently black.[5]: 243 The cattle were so called because of the practice of swimming them across the narrow straits or kyles separating the islands from the mainland. The cattle of the mainland were somewhat larger, and very variable in colour; they were often brown or red.[6]: 200 [7]: 66 These cattle were important to the Scottish economy of the eighteenth century. At markets such as those of Falkirk or Crieff, many were bought by drovers from England, who moved them south over the Pennines to be fattened for slaughter. In 1723 over 30000 Scottish cattle were sold into England. A breed society was established in 1884, and in 1885 published the first volume of the herd-book. In this the two types were recorded without distinction as 'Highland'
