Why Lowlines?

Lowline Cattle are not just another novelty breed but are the result of over 75 years of professional selective breeding designed to produce a superior and efficient beef animal. These naturally quiet tempered, easy to raise animals have a lot more to offer than the typical fad type animals offered as the so called miniature breeds today.

Lowlines are an extremely efficient beef animal, that produces a high quality meat product with immediate acceptance in the existing beef market. These animals are a ground floor opportunity to provide foundation animals for the growing Lowline market. We believe the future beef herd in the USA will eventually be made up of these type animals because of their high production efficiency and by the rapidly growing demand for grass fed beef. These animals are uniquely qualified to meet this special market

Lowline Breed Advantages

• Lowlines have superior carcass traits which are indicated by the 30% larger ribeye area and excellent marbling.
• Lowlines have lower feed requirements as low as 1/3 the feed needed for larger crossbred beef cattle. Lowlines wean 40% more retail product per acre.
• Lowlines have small calves and breed back easily.
• Lowlines are black and polled, both valuable attributes in the beef market.
• Lowlines are perfectly suited to the niche market with smaller portions and beef sides yet yield thick cut naturally marbled steaks with excellent tenderness.
• Lowlines are good mothers with fast growing calves and have a short (271 day) gestation period.
• Lowlines are attractive and well proportioned. Herds are uniform in appearance.
• Lowlines have a life span of 12 to 25 years, are good foragers, hardy and easy keepers.
• Lowlines finish a tasty, well-marbled product on grass alone.
• Lowlines are extremely rare and offer excellent value for seed stock production.
• Lowlines are well suited to Management intensive grazing and grass based beef production.
• Lowlines are ideal for the small acreage farms as well as for commercial production on a larger scale.
• Lowlines are free of the dwarf gene.
• Lowlines are a good fit on most farm program and make excellent 4-h project animals.

Can you benefit from a 40% increase in retail product per acre?

This goal is possible because of the higher stocking rates, and significantly higher product yields for Lowline cattle. This higher than normal product yield has been repeatedly verified by ultra sound measurements in the US and Australia. These tests consistently show a boneless retail product yield at 20 to 30% more product per 100 weight of carcass. This combined with the greater feed efficiency or stocking rate per acre results in dramatic increases in retail product per acre.

Rod and Marilyn Hewitt
217 Darby Hill
Rockingham, Vermont 05101
Phone: 802-463-2205 Fax: 802-463-2205
Email: rod@dayspringfarm.com