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Are they truly small?
Yes!
 How
do you know? How can you tell from the few pictures we have posted?
They LOOK like regular Herefords!!
Yup. They LOOK like regular Herefords.
That's the whole point. We wanted Miniatures with every bit as high
quality as any of their huge counterparts. We wanted them even better!
No dwarves in our herd, and no pathetic excuses for cows. Many breeds of
animals have been miniaturized over the years, many of them lost nearly all
qualities that identified them with the original breed from which they descend.
Our goal was to produce a Miniature that looked exactly like the original
animals except for one attribute: size. No distended bellies, no heads too
large for the rest of the body. That's why it has taken us 35 years to
reduce the size by only a few inches. If we chose to breed the smallest
animals possible no matter the cost, we could have had extremely tiny cows by
now. But they
would have lost the important qualities that made Herefords famous for so many
years. They wouldn't have been Herefords anymore. Yes, our girls look
like the big Herefords. They are Herefords.
So how do you know you're getting a smaller
animal? Simple. Get out your tape measure. On every animal in
our Sale Barn, we post a current or estimated frame
score...if possible, we include an actual current height. Learn about our
Frame Score Charts. Learn how to use them.
Measure
 the
animal's height from the floor next to yourself. Our cattle will stand
about as high as your hip or waist, depending on your height and the height of
the animal you're looking at. Full sized Herefords will probably stand as
tall as your head!
As always, don't hesitate to call or email us if
you have questions on any of our animals...we love to hear from you.
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