Australian Lowlines,small beef cattle for lifestyle (life style) blocks and small acreage farms

Why we went into AUSTRALIAN LOWLINE small Angus cattle on our lifestyle block

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SMALL, BUT NOT MINIATURE Australian Lowlines are small but not miniature cattle and do not have the adverse genes of some of the miniature cattle breeds. SMALLER BY DESIGN For the last 150 years, beef cattle have been bred to be big to produce the huge slabs of meat that were a symbol of affluence for our ancestors. Australian Lowlines are designed to be smaller and to mature earlier. HEALTH CONSCIOUS Better educated 21st century markets require smaller higher quality cuts of meat with good marbling and just enough sub-cutaneous fat. It is for those markets that Australian Lowlines have been developed. DEFINITELY NOT MINIATURE Australian Lowlines are serious beef cattle that win awards against all comers in carcass competitions. They're cute enough for anyone but they're definitely not miniature. Australian Lowlines. Bred for better beef.

We're David and Judy Sainsbury, owners of Casablanca Lowline Stud. Entrepreneurial by nature, business savvy, but no longer young. Dave's a retired accountant and IT specialist. Jude's been in pharmaceuticals, IT, journalism and politics. We both have dairying and country backgrounds and we've both done a lot of adventurous things.

In 2003 we down-sized to a lifestyle block at Kumeu, just out of Auckland. We decided on beef cattle but (both having wrecked shoulders) needed a breed that we could handle with ease. We didn't want our paddocks pugged, either. (It can get a bit waterlogged at Kumeu.) We looked at all the small and miniature beef cattle breeds and weren't that impressed. Some breeds were Clayton's cattle, bred to be picturesque. Some carried the dwarfism gene with its potential for abnormality and abortion. Some breeds, frankly, were scrawny.

None of these were for us. We wanted real cattle. Beef cattle. Cattle that cut a mean steak.

Then we discovered Australian Lowlines, the scientifically derived small Angus cattle with their impeccable genetic history. Australian Lowlines are the right size, easy to handle, and very docile. They're serious beef cattle, with better conformation than most Angus because they're smaller replicas of their champion ancestors which were some of the best Angus cattle in the world. They're easy calvers and good doers and they have outstanding carcass characteristics. Australian Lowlines are naturally polled so you don't have to worry about dehorning. They're all very "even" and we know what to expect from them because they are the most genetically studied cattle ever. And they look great in our paddocks.

So we set up an Australian Lowline stud using some of the best blood lines and we've had some remarkable successes.(See Showing page.) And we've both become Australian Lowline connoisseurs. You could say that we're right into it. And we're both very confident because we know that (when compared to large, small, and especially miniature cattle) Australian Lowlines are the best beef cattle in the world.

Casablanca Lowline Stud, home of Australian Lowline small Angus cattle

Judy and David Sainsbury, Casablanca Lowline Stud, 146 Kauri Crescent, Kumeu, Auckland, New Zealand. Telephone:(New Zealand)09 4122341. Mobile:0211433204. Email:lowline@casablanca.co.nz