Until 1849 most Scottish Highlanders were black. The story goes that in the 1840s Queen Victoria visited the Scottish Highlands and expressed her preference for the red animals. She simply thought they were more beautiful. She gave the order to breed more red Highlanders.[2] Besides black and red, there are also blond varieties. An adult bull weighs 800 pounds and a cow 500 pounds. The height at the withers is 125 and 115 cm respectively. Scottish Highlanders can reach an age of eighteen years. In that time, a cow can give birth to approximately fifteen calves. The gestation period is about ten months. Cows have broad, upward-pointing horns, while those of the bulls are horizontally forward.
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