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Mini Highlands may also require specialized veterinary care and finding such a vet who has experience with miniature cattle breeds could definitely be a challenging task in some areas.
Re-establishment of the breed began with an import of two cows and a bull from Scotland in 1954. The stock was later increased, mostly by breeding up using imported semen; some use was also made of embryo transfer. [12] A breed society, the Australian Highland Cattle Society, was formed in 1988. [12]
An American breeder, Richard Gradwohl, has developed eighteen different strains of miniature cattle. [3] Miniature Galloway, Hereford and Holstein have been bred. [2]: 245 [3] In the United States, small zebuine cattle deriving from stock imported from Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Sweden may be registered as "Miniature Zebu"; [2]: 245 in Australia, similar cattle may be known as "Nadudana".
The North Ronaldsay Sheep is a most unusual breed, subsisting largely on a diet of seaweed. [3] The Boreray was in 2012 the only sheep breed listed by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as 'critical', its highest level of concern at that time; [ 4 ] in 2022 it was listed as 'at risk', the lower of the two levels of concern of the Trust. [ 5 ]
However, between 1990 and 1999, purebred stock diminished from 272 animals to just 42 pigs held by six breeders, [50] and in 2000, it was asked to create a unified breed registry for the Red Wattle Hog. Three hogs were registered in the first year, but the next year 90 hogs and three breeders were represented and a breed association was created.
It is a hardy breed, able to withstand the intemperate conditions in the region. The first herd-book dates from 1885; two types – a smaller island type, usually black, and a larger mainland type, usually dun – were registered as a single breed.