Scottish Highland Cattle During winter, the cattle do a wonderful job maintaining the woodlands on the farm. Throughout the growing season, as we rotate the horses from one field to the next, we move the cattle in behind them to graze the pasture grasses evenly. As a result, we enjoy the year ’round benefit of having fresh cow manure deposited around the fields and have no need for chemical fertilizers. Perhaps the most important job the cattle have is that of enhancing the calm, pastoral setting of the farm for the horses. We maintain a small fold of Scottish Highland Cattle at Watchtower Farm. Highland Cattle were brought to the U.S. in the second half of the 19th Century. The Highland is the oldest registered breed of cattle in the world. The Highland breed has lived for centuries in the rugged remote Scottish Highlands. Extremely harsh conditions created a process of natural selection, where only the fittest and most adaptable animals survived to carry on the breed Keeping Highland Cattle on the farm provides several benefits. Every one of our calves has been sold as a pet or donated to a non-profit, community-operated farm on Cape Cod.
 
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