Genetics
Proven, Traceable and registered. We prioritize health records, conformation, size and disposition when picking our Sire Bull and Dams.
Welfare
We raise our animals in a nurturing environment, free range, with human interaction and lots of love. We respect and generate the most natural environment for our herd.
Friendly & Docile
On top of high quality genetics, the right nutrition and the peaceful environment, we are around our herd constantly so they feel safe, and learn to socialize with visitors and guests of any ages. The calves will go home after 4-6 weeks of socializing training, halter training and ready to give you all the love you want from them.
Whispering Oaks Miniature Ranch is an organic 20 acres ranch in Central Florida built with love, passion and joy. It provides a sustainable, regenerative, and permaculture habitat for raising Miniature Cattle and other miniature farm animals with the highest possible welfare. We breed and raise docile, high quality miniature scottish highlands, miniature highland crosses, highparks, mini pandas, jerseys and herefords as well as miniature donkeys. Ensuring the welfare of our animals is important for their physical health and emotional well-being, as well as for the quality of the products they produce. The handling of cows and donkeys is done in a manner that minimizes stress and discomfort.
We are a registered breeder committed to research, development and our goal is to share new and traditional techniques that can be applied to small farms and homesteads for the 21st century.
Past Stock
Here you can see our previous calves that are already living happy and with lot of love in their forever homes. We also offer some of our bulls and cows from time to time, and below are some of the original sires of our herd that we have sold.
Available Stock
Below are the babies born this year in our ranch and looking for a new home. If you click on the image you can see more pictures and information on dam and sire.
Why Mini?
About Highlands
Frequently Asked Questions
We breed and raise very friendly and docile registered Miniature Highlands, Highparks, Belted Galloway, Jersey and Hereford crosses with Highland. Check here our available calves and stock at the moment.
We also breed and raise very sweet and friendly miniature donkeys. They are halter trained, will pick feet without even a halter and would take all the love you have for them. You can see our available miniature donkeys here
Miniature Cattle prices range from $2,500 to $25,000 generally depending on genetics, color, conformation and docility score. Miniature Donkeys range from $1,500 to $5,000 also depending on color, docility and registration status. You can see our full detailed prices here
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Miniature cows are selectively bred to achieve their smaller size while maintaining specific breed traits and attributes. There are different sizes of mini, based on the height at 3 years old: Micro Mini under 36”; Miniature between 36.25”- 42”, and Mid Size between 43” – 48”.
This chart is a great visual explanation published by the International Miniature Cattle Breeder Registry (IMCBR).
We find a lot of benefits in registering the animals that are born on the farm. It provides transparency to our clients. It accounts for traceability on genetics, traits and performance. When you buy an animal from us, the registration is transferred to you as a gift from us, so you can have all their records as well as continue the practice in case you decide to breed as well. We register with IMCBR, AHCA, HHCA, MMDA as appropriate.
All our animals are on pasture 24×7, with access to shelter, shade and very refreshing sprinklers for the summer days. During dry seasons we supplement with excellent local quality hay and the minimum required high quality cattle feed to keep them on a good nutritional score. And they loooove the feed, so it is a great treat for them as well as a strategy for easy cattle management.
Of course! I will love to help you get started or expand to new genetics in your herd. Please contact me (Maite) directly at 415-635-6353 or drop us a line and I will get in contact with you to understand what your goals are and how we can help you.
Yes and we highly encourage you to do so. We can arrange a visit to our farm and if you are not close enough or don’t want to travel, we can do FaceTime or video call for you to see the calves, mini cows, mini bulls, mini donkeys and their babies!
Yes, we can deliver ourselves within 50-100 miles for a fee or coordinate transportation for you with very reputable and trusted transporters.
We purposefully breed for docility and health. All our calves for sale are friendly, halter broke, docile and easy to work on. All our herd sire and dams are either born in our Ranch or have been brought to our farm from either a very reputable breeder or and have gone through our socializing and training program to become a safe, friendly and trustworthy animal when producing new babies and future herd sires and dams.
Indeed, they are! They love hugs, scratches, and treats from your hand. They are perfect for petting zoo, for kids, for new homesteaders and farmers and for shows.
If the animal is registered, you will have a digital registration certificate as well as transfership of her/his registration. We also provide DNA test report, health records (vaccinations, deworming, any issues or observations recorded). We also prepare a digital photo book of your new animal and if shipping out of state, we also include veterinarian health certificate to travel out of state.
Absolutely! Please check our Available Stock page with the pictures and full information on dam, sire and link to registry to also check for their brothers and sisters as well as color, DNA Test Report, color, height, docility score, and any remarks or special characteristics and behaviors observed.
