Highland cattle on the rise as an easy breed to handle The shaggy looking long-horned Highland cattle breed is gaining popularity for their gentle nature and good quality meat.

The Ankole are descendants of Egyptian long-horned cattle that once lived along the Nile River around 4000 BC. The animals are primarily kept for dairy milk and are not usually raised for meat.

The new cattle come by way of a generous rancher – not from across the Atlantic where the African breed originates, but a few hundred miles away in North Carolina.

The first "long-horned" cattle arrived on the American continent in 1493, Spanish stock that accompanied Christopher Columbus on his voyage of discovery to the New World.

Highlanders, Texas Long Horns, and Watussi are a few breeds that still grow horns. It’s easy to think that horned cattle are more dangerous than those without.

Long-horned cattle were established in Egypt as far back as 4000 B.C., and the breed migrated to Africa, where it mixed with longhorn cattle from India.

The magnificent statute of the Ankole long horned cattle at the entrance of Mbarara town, the capital of western Uganda, often referred to as the land of milk, shows you how important the long ...

The Pueblo Zoo recently reported the death of Batik, a long-horned African Watusi cow who had lived at the zoo for eight years.