Highland Cattle

To attract visitors to their tent, L J Hooker have brought in Scottish highland cattle.

Sat to the side of their tent are four fluffy horned cattle that visitors are able to pet, comb and interact with.

Known as the Hooker team, Ginni Alexander and Catherine Atkinson bring their cattle from Cleveland every year.

This is their seventh time.

“L J Hooker were looking for something to make their real estate tent look busy. No one wants to look at real estate at Fieldays,” Alexander said.

The cattle have worked well for L J Hooker and the firm rings Alexander and Atkinson up every year to invite them back.

Alexander and Atkinson belong to the New Zealand Highland Cattle Society and are Scottish highland cattle breeders and beef farmers.

At their Fieldays site, Alexander hears children tell their mums as they walk past, “mummy, I want to pat that calf.”

There are four Scottish highland cattle at Fieldays, Ziggy, two, her calf, Jimmy, four months, Bess and Belinda, one.

Atkinson said these four will leave and new cattle are arriving on Thursday night and will be at the tent for the rest of Fieldays.

“One of the cows sneezed on a kid yesterday,” she said.

But Alexander said the kids love them.

“One even got plaited yesterday,” she said.

“This is Ziggy’s second year here. She has done very, very well. She will just stand there and talk to the public and she is loose in her yard,” Alexander said.

L J Hooker have coffee available at the back of the tent so parents can help themselves and find out more about farming real estate.