Just a short drive from Evansville is a farm where you can hug and play with fluffy cows, and they are adorable.
If you have never heard of or seen Scottish Highland Cattle, you re missing out on the cutest cow you ve ever seen. These things are fluffy cows that you can t help but want to just hug. Luckily for you, there s a farm right outside of Louisville where you can do just that.
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TC Highlands Farm is located in Shelby County, Kentucky. Here at the farm, they specialize in breeding Highland Cattle. According to their website, they breed these cows for pleasure and for breeding stock or as pets and only sell them to loving homes that can and will care for them properly, which we ll get into later. But the cool thing about this farm is the fact that you can actually go visit it and interact with these cattle.
When you see this gigantic Scottish highland steer with flaming red fur and massive pointy horns, the word ‘gentle’ wouldn’t be the first thing that comes to mind. After all, the beast weighs around 2,000 pounds, which equals approximately 8-9 adult men.
But the passionate farmer Marc Stewart of Thistle Do Farm in Bedford, Virginia, proves all the prejudice wrong. In a minute-long video, which has been watched more than 963k times, Marc explains that not only are highland cattle “one of the most docile breeds,” they are also incredibly smart.
The video shows his 9-year-old Highland steer Hamish peacefully clinging by Marc’s side as he carefully grooms him. “He’s getting the dangerous parts away from me,” says Marc, referring to the gigantic horns that would send chills down my spine if I was standing close to them, and tells him this is a sign of respect. So let’s meet the gentle giant Hamish down below in a video that challenges the ways we think of these incre