The Romesdal fold of registered, pedigree Highland Cattle is located off the coast of North West Scotland in the Trotternish region of the remote and beautiful Isle of Skye. We are a small fold with seven breeding cows and their followers and aim to increase this to ten or so cows in the near future. (Click here for map)

Romesdal Highland cattle feed naturally on grass in the summer months and in winter are fed hay, supplemented with bruised oats and cattle cobs for essential minerals and vitimins. The cattle are never housed indoors and have freedom to find their own shelter from the worst of the winter gales

Highland cattle are very hardy, and have to be to withstand outdoors the long, harsh, winters common to this region of Scotland. 

Highland cattle are therefore ideally suited to the environment of the Isle of Skye as it lies within the geographic area where the breed originated. They are tough beasts indeed and much less work than imported breeds of cattle, as they do not have to be housed in the winter as nature has provided them with a weatherproof, shaggy coat and an extra thick hide.

Highlanders have attributes other than low maintainence that make them worth keeping. They are excellent mothers, for example, and have little difficulty calving. Also, the meat is superb and very low in cholesterol owing to hide and hair doing the job that fat does in other breeds.