“For a lifestyle block, miniature cows do a good job eating the grass and there’s less pugging,” Anna said. “We definitely breed for cuteness, aiming for compact belted Galloways or the white ones with black ears, noses and eyelashes. “There is a good market for miniature cattle.”Anna Campbell, left, with her black and white miniature Galloways. Eleanor started the tradition of everything being black and white when she had her small house built. “When I got two pigs, silkie chickens and dogs all in black and white, it became a thing that we always had black and white animals,” she said.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 17, 2026 16:06 UTC