Borland Highland Beef can be bought at Perth Farmers & Montrose Farmers markets on the first Saturday of each month
Forfar Farmers market on the second Saturday of each month
Dundee Farmers Market on the thrid Saturday of each month
For Sale - Belted Galloway Bull - Tavish of Dunay (24/03/08) UK542205 200286
Belted Galloway Bull - Mochrum Ross (26/09/2007) UK583381100331
We have 4 calves from Ross and we are very pleased with them, they are a nice type with good belts. Viewing welcome
Highland Bull - Briaoch of Borland (16/04/2008) UK542205100306
The above bulls are for sale and we are open to offers, for more Details contact Kenneth or phone 07789 301751
Orders now being taken for Highland Beef - email Kenneth or call 07789 301751. Be quick to avoid disappointment
(one of the wild ones......... with a quiet cow) Homebred Beltie Heifer - Heather
Borland Farm is situated at 1200 ft in beautiful Glenshee between Blairgowrie and Braemar.
Specialising in Highland Cattle, Hebridean Sheep and Belted Galloway cattle.
Borland Highland Beef & Hebridean Lamb is available at Perth Farmers market & Montrose Farmers market on the first Saturday every month. We also attend Forfar Farmers Market on the 2nd Saturday of each month. Please visit us if you can. Please call 07789 301751 or email - kenneth to place an order that you can collect
The farm comprises approximately 750 acres of heather moorland and 250 acres of rough grazing and improved grassland. There is also a little over 100 acres of mixed
woodland. The main farm steading sits at 1200 ft
above sea level and the hills rise to a peak of 2440 ft at
the summit of Mount Blair.
The Highland Cattle Fold on Borland farm was
started in 1996 and shortly afterwards the foundation
stock of the current Hebridean flock arrived.The Highalnd Cattle fold is founded on old blood lines of all recognised colours. The emphasis is on blood lines from the Western Isles of Scotland including Mull and Uist. Folds featuring in our pedigrees include; Achnacloich, Ardbhan, Balinoe, Glenogle, Cladich, Ormsary, Torloisk and Woodneuk.
After having seen Belted Galloway cattle on a farm visit in 2005, it was decided to start a small fold of pedigree Belted Galloway cattle.
Borland Farm also subscribes to Scottish Food Quality Certification (SFQC) standards and has attained for many years now, full membership to the their Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) farm assured scheme.
As all our animals are native breeds, they are well suited to being reared outdoors all year round without prophylactic chemicals or intensive practices, in a gentle and extensive manner. Their unselective grazing and foraging habits are acknowledged by conservation authorities to enhance the flora on hill ground and therefore improve the habitat for wildlife. Our animals have been raised in a traditional manner and will have had a guaranteed quality of life. They are allowed to develop and grow at a rate dictated by nature and the environment..
We produce our own haylage for winter feeding. An addition to the farm stock in 1998 which fits in well, is Hebridean sheep which assist in control of obnoxious weeds such as ragwort and their close cropping of grass assists seeding with clover for natural nitrogen generation. They are the one breed of sheep that can improve heather growth on moorland. We have a great interest in improving the habitat of our moorland areas which until 1996 were heavily grazed with black-faced sheep. These have been replaced by the highland cattle and the changes in the heather biomass has been monitored under a joint project between The Game Conservancy Trust and the World Pheasant Association. Already major improvements in heather regeneration have been recorded as well as improvements in red grouse numbers and other moorland birds.
Articles under the title of 'The Learning Curve' record the problems of setting up a Highland cattle fold and make a useful introduction for newcomers. Borland Farm has specialised in studying the benefits of Highland cattle and Hebridean sheep for conservation grazing with research help on the farm carried out by The Game Conservancy Trust.
Borland farm has a unique relationship with Highland Drovers of Perth, a small company that offers a high quality butchering and packaging service, and using Highland Drovers we are able to offer bespoke boxes of Highland Beef and Hebridean lamb delivered to your door. Please visit www.highlanddrovers.co.uk or call 01738 561523 to obtain more information.
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Highland Cattle Galore
By Una Cochrane
Only £9.99 including P & P (uk)
(Send us your contact details and we will get in touch)
This is a must have booklet for all with an interest in Highland Cattle.At first glance it appears to be sixty pages of delightful photographs, paintings and old picture postcard reproductions of Highland Cattle , many going back to the 1800's. However what makes this a really fascinating read is the very informative and well researched text by Una Cochrane that accompanies them.
In subtle ways the author makes her points and reveals her deep knowledge of the breed. The bulls illustrated on page 47 are a case in point and I certainly could not find a bull illustrated whether from the 1800's or 1900's that did not conform strictly to the original standard for the breed.If you search within the text you will even discover why in the authors opinion a few (very few) Highland Cattle caught BSE.
This is undoubtedly an extremely enjoyable booklet to browse through but it is also educational over the origins and history of the breed and in particular concentrates on the days of the Drovers and marketing Trysts.There is humour too and little gems of information such as a Highland Bull featured in an early Bovril advertisement and the rich creamy milk of Highland cows being used in the making of "Tablet" (scotlands wonderful fudge) in the 1920's.
What this publication does not do is cover in any way the successful keeping of and breeding from Highland cattle. For that you have to go to a much earlier book written by Una Cochrane called "With a keen eye" which surprisingly does not get a mention.Whether because of modesty on the part of the author or perhaps its being out of print I know not . If the latter perhaps Stenlake publishing will reprint it.
