Now we'll have space, I realy would like to have a house cow. I planned to get Shetlands but they are quite expensive. I know a dairy farmer who has proper Friesian cows ie no Holstein blood. Sometimes he uses beef breed semen - Limousin or Belgian Blue. Actually, it's mixed semen and you don't know what the sire is until the calf's born. Anyway, I wondered about getting a couple of Lim x Friesian heifer calves and rearing them so they are nice and well handled, then putting them in calf to a beef bull. I will take some milk and the calf can have the rest; calf goes for beef eventually.
Thoughts on any aspect of this plan?