The Highland Cattle Talk

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Special  Guests:

Skyler Anderson
Skye High Farms was founded in 1999 with little to no cattle knowledge or experience by its founder Skyler Anderson. He started with the purchase of a weanling highland heifer and a steer. 
With the passion and desire to learn about everything Highland cattle related, and a lot of trial and error, Skyler progressed as a cattleman. He has traveled to more than 100 farms across the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and continental Europe. Skye High Farms cattle have won numerous championships both regionally and nationally. They continue to raise quality highland cattle with an emphasis on production and quality and a steadfast belief in highland cattle as practical producers of quality beef first and foremost.

Dexter Logan
 
Blairlogan fold was founded in 1990 with the purchase of a heifer calf from Oban by Dexter Logan's parents. 
Being born in 1995, from a young age his passion has grown and today, Dexter and his wife Carolyn manage this very select fold  consisting of only 4 breeding females which are run along side a small herd of Galloways. 
The main aim  is  to produce quality not quantity and since its establishment Blairlogan has had great success throughout the UK show circuit. 
The Highland Breed has seen Dexter travel to Australia,  Finland and Germany judging and attending shows as well as meeting fellow breeders and picking up new friends and knowledge along the way.

Podcast Panel:

Dr. Glen Hastie - Bairnsley Highlands


Host:

Deniz Karaca - Yatarna Highland Cattle Fold

To contact us with any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to have discussed, please email;

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Show Notes:

weblinks:

Kiste List: Episode 15 & 16 (yatarna.com.au)

Special  Guests:

Dr Pat White
An accidental exposure to Highland cattle shortly after graduating from veterinary college in 1980 sent Pat and her husband Larry on a 2-year trip of exploration around the US. Looking at the breed and talking to breeders before they finally made the life altering purchase of their first two Highlands in 1983. 

Thirty-eight years later - LEA-White Farms runs 30 brood cows (down from 60) and Pat continues to enjoy raising them and watching talented young people show her cattle. She now does essentially all the work on the farm herself. Other than a mineral mix and the small amount of corn and molasses fed to the weanlings, everything else the cows consume is grown on the farm or in rare years, purchased directly from a neighbor. 

Pat is intimately involved in the day-to-day management and care of the cattle. She has been an active participant in both national and regional Highland cattle associations since the late 1980s. She has written numerous articles on a regular basis for The Bagpipe. These articles have elicited recognition, comments and thanks from breeders (not limited to Highlands) across the country and around the globe. 

She presently serves on the AHCA’s Board of Directors. One of her  main interests in addition to the breeding of Highland cattle lies in accurate and realistic education for both neophyte and experienced breeders concerning cattle health, care and welfare. She also has an abiding interest in encouraging honest, ethical business practices as it concerns Highland breeders.

Dr Stephan Janz
Stephan Janz is a retired GP, Highland Cattle Breeder, Cattle Judge  and Author based near Hamburg, Germany.

He started his own Highland Fold in 1988 with the importation of his first cows/heifers from Scotland. His Fold  has kept a closed herd ever since, never buying any new females. In peak times the herd amounted to 30 head 

A keen visitor of Scottish folds, breeders and shows, he  was given the opportunity to  junior judge alongside experienced judges, in the likes of  Bill Smith, Donald MacDiarmid (Leys Castle), Donald MacGillivray (Pennygown), Archie Howat (Rigg) and John Redpath and in 1995 he was invited to serve on the panel of judges of the HCS and has since judged shows in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Switzerland and Scotland. 

Being previously active in the show ring himself, his fold produced three male champions at the German National Highland Show. 

Stephan has recently completed and published his book;  "Highland Cattle - Ikone des schottischen Hochlands", a 480 page encyclopedia on all things Highland Cattle and a must in any breeders library. 

(Editors Note: "Highland Cattle" is currently only available in German language with a translation expected to be published soon) 

Podcast Panel:

Dr. Glen Hastie - Bairnsley Highlands


Host:

Deniz Karaca - Yatarna Highland Cattle Fold

To contact us with any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to have discussed, please email;

e. [email protected]

Show Notes:

weblinks:

404 Not Found (bairnsley.com)

Crop Ear in Highland Cattle (cruachan.com.au)

Evaluation of Cattle Traits (cruachan.com.au)

Bairnsley Highlands - Horn Shapes in Highland Cattle

ERLING Verlag » Highland Cattle (erling-verlag.com)

Special  Guest:

Dom Bayard
Dom has a lifetime of experience with cattle having grown up on a dairy farm and continuing in the beef and dairy industries since finishing education. Starting his work with Embryos in the 90's, he and  his wife Joanne established Global Reproductive Solutions (GRS) in 2004.

GRS provides a number of reproductive services throughout Australia and internationally. The base of their operations is on the embryo transfer center at Goorambat in northern Victoria. This consists of both an accredited embryo export center, a domestic ET center and a recipient farm. In all, these facilities add up to just under 1000 acres.

Podcast Panel:
Dr. Glen Hastie - Bairnsley Highlands

Host:
Deniz Karaca - Yatarna Highland Cattle Fold

To contact us with any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to have discussed, please email;

e. [email protected]

Show Notes:

resources:
https://yatarna.com.au/podcast-files-1

weblinks:
NHIA | National Herd Improvement Association of Australia | Werribee VIC
New dairy vaccine targets rotavirus | Farm Online | Australia
Condition scoring of beef cattle | Health and welfare | Beef | Livestock and animals | Agriculture Victoria

Special  Guest:

Dom Bayard
Dom has a lifetime of experience with cattle having grown up on a dairy farm and continuing in the beef and dairy industries since finishing education. Starting his work with Embryos in the 90's, he and  his wife Joanne established Global Reproductive Solutions (GRS) in 2004.

GRS provides a number of reproductive services throughout Australia and internationally. The base of their operations is on the embryo transfer center at Goorambat in northern Victoria. This consists of both an accredited embryo export center, a domestic ET center and a recipient farm. In all, these facilities add up to just under 1000 acres.

Podcast Panel:
Dr. Glen Hastie - Bairnsley Highlands

Host:
Deniz Karaca - Yatarna Highland Cattle Fold

To contact us with any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to have discussed, please email;

e. [email protected]

Show Notes:

resources:
https://yatarna.com.au/podcast-files-1

weblinks:
NHIA | National Herd Improvement Association of Australia | Werribee VIC
New dairy vaccine targets rotavirus | Farm Online | Australia
Condition scoring of beef cattle | Health and welfare | Beef | Livestock and animals | Agriculture Victoria

Podcast Panel:
Dr. Glen Hastie - Bairnsley Highlands
Dr. Paul McLeman - Avoch Highlands
Bill Wilson - Cruachan Highland Cattle
Host:
Deniz Karaca - Yatarna Highland Cattle Fold

To contact us with any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to have discussed, please email;

e. [email protected]

Show Notes:
Web Resources:
How to determine when a cow is in heat - Farm and Dairy
Estrus Detection In Cattle (thebeefsite.com)
Bairnsley Highlands - Oestrus Synchronisation in Highland Beef Cattle.
Bairnsley Highlands - Artificial Insemination (AI) in Highland Beef Cattle.

Podcast Panel:
Dr. Glen Hastie - Bairnsley Highlands
Dr. Paul McLeman - Avoch Highlands
Bill Wilson - Cruachan Highland Cattle
Host:
Deniz Karaca - Yatarna Highland Cattle Fold

To contact us with any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to have discussed, please email;

e. [email protected]

Show Notes:
Web Resources:
Bairnsley Highlands - Oestrus Synchronisation in Highland Beef Cattle.
Condition scoring of beef cattle | Health and welfare | Beef | Livestock and animals | Agriculture Victoria