Traditional, heritage breeds maintain important characteristics for survival and self-sufficiency. Which includes better fertility, forging abilities, health, longevity, and higher resistance to diseases and parasites.
Heritage Breeds & Benefits
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What are Heritage Livestock Breeds: Why They’re Important?
Heritage livestock breeds benefit both homesteaders and consumers with their hardiness, adaptability, flavorful meat and genetic diversity.
Whether you’re a farmer or a consumer, preserving the genetic diversity of animals is a critical issue. Traditional, or heritage, animals bring many beneficial characteristics to a homestead: They’re often sturdier and more adaptable to local conditions, and in general their slower growth compared with industrial hybrids results in richer flavor and more delicious products.
Successful heritage animal breeds can keep the food supply secure by lending qualities that are essential for the long-term health of breed populations — for example, the traditional Cornish chicken is the foundation for the world’s broiler industry.
Keeping and using endangered livestock on farms is an important conservation strategy. Animals need to continue to evolve and adapt to their surroundings, but we also need a way to secure important genetics to halt the loss of significant bloodlines.
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Meet Our Heritage Breeds
Scottish Highlands
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What makes Scottish Highlands special? The below are some examples for what they are best known for:
- Hardiness
- Gentle nature
- Excellent mothers
- Unique appearance in different shades and colors
- Dual purpose (low cholesterol meat and creamy rich milk)
- Good pets
TM Farmsteading has focused on raising healthy purebred cows with good genetics and breed characteristics such as a straight back, distinguished horns, strong legs, beautiful hair, and traditional or rare coloration of the coat from dark red, yellow, dun, white, silver, or black colors.
Suffolk Sheep
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The Suffolk sheep are well known for their rapid early growth rate, heavy muscling, and being a favorite terminal sire for range sheep operations. They have prominent eye appeal in breed character and are unrivaled in beauty. Suffolk’s have jet black, wool-free heads and legs that sharply contrast their clean white fleeces and pink skin. Suffolk’s are valued by commercial sheep breeders as they are fast growing and provide a quality carcass trait to their lamb crops. – NASSS
Flemish Giant
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We are a Flemish Giant Rabbit breeder working to improve the breed as outlined by the American Rabbit Breeder Association‘s (ARBA) Standards of Perfection (SoP). We strive to breed the best show quality rabbits, as well as, pets and processing. TM Farmsteading is a proud member of the National Federation of Flemish Giant Rabbit Breeders (NFFGRB). The main focus we have for our rabbits are the black, blue, fawn, steel, and light gray varieties.
Poultry & Fowl
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We have hatched and raised turkeys and ducks for many years. Turkey meat is most known for being rich in high-quality protein and many vitamins and minerals. Duck eggs are also rich in protein, high in Vitamin A, high in selenium, etc. Ducks produce more eggs for a much longer laying season in comparison to chickens.
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