- Great for Agriculture exemptions on large and small tracts.
- Can raise 2-3 cows per acre
- Investment potential and tax credit
- Great for children, FFA or 4-H project
- Great for beef & ez handle dual purpose milk
- Require less feed, less equipment and less handling
- Easy Keepers, Very Docile and Early Maturing
- Great for the Hobby Farmer as well as serious beef raisers
- Easy on fences & that keeps your neighbors happy
- Part time income for retirees
- Great pets and petting zoo livestock
- smaller beef animal allows an owner to utilize smaller freezers
- Grass fed beef for Cowpooling - consumers love the smaller cuts.
Miniature Herefords exhibit an improved cow/calf weaning ratio, good mothers, greater rib eye are per hundred weight, less waste with a higher dressing percentage. Iincreased tenderness due to genetics and early maturity. Oustanding traits when compared to the modern beef animal.
It is important to note that I handle my cattle without my husband’s help (he works out of town). I worm them, move them around and have very little trouble doing so. Herefords are very docile cattle and easy on the land and me! The majority of my cattle are not pets (unless I wish to make them so) but they are very tame to handle.