LEAD ROPE
Cotton lead, 10 ft
$14
Cotton, not poly. Poly burns your hands the one time it matters.
AISLE 02
Mini cattle & hobby livestock · 38 things
Pasture
Pets
A Teddy Cow is a cow. She is wonderful, she is four hundred pounds of hair with opinions, and she will out-stubborn you on a Tuesday. Everything on this aisle is sized for the small breeds and priced for people who are not running a ranch.
How to read this aisle
OURSWe make it. Ships from us.
DIRECTOur store, maker ships it.
Halters & lead ropes
Sized for miniatures, not for a Hereford
If you buy one thing on this page
The mini-breed
halter
$22
DIRECT · AFFILIATE
Every hardware store sells you a full-size cattle halter and tells you it adjusts. It does not adjust down that far. This one is cut for a Highland or Dexter under 600 pounds, and the noseband sits where it should instead of over her eye.
What it beat
A $60 show halter that looked wonderful and rubbed a bald patch in a week.
Who it's wrong for
A grown standard cow, or anybody who leaves a halter on unsupervised. Don't.
CALF HALTER
Rope calf halter
$11
For a heifer calf you're still teaching to lead.
TIE RING
Blocker tie ring
$29
Gives when she pulls, so the fence post doesn't have to.
NECK STRAP
Numbered neck strap
$9
Four cows in, you stop being able to tell them apart. You will.
Minerals & feed
The part people skip and then pay for
The pick
Free-choice
mineral tub
$34
lasts two cows a season
Grass in the Southeast is short on copper and selenium and your cow can't tell you that. Put the tub out, let her decide how much she wants, and stop guessing. This is the cheapest vet bill you will ever avoid.
The rest of the shelf
Rubber feed pan, 3 gal
Freezes without cracking, and she can't step through it.
$12
Plain white salt block
Four dollars. Not a substitute for minerals — an addition.
$4
Slow-feed hay net
A round bale lasts a third longer and she doesn't sleep in it.
$38
Fly spray, permethrin
August in Mississippi is not a season, it's a condition.
$16
Eight more, including the loose mineral we actually use.
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Before you buy a Teddy Cow
She is not a large dog. She is a small cow.
Half the people who land on this page found us from a video of a fluffy calf. So here it is straight: she needs an acre, a friend of her own species, a large-animal vet who answers the phone, and about $1,400 a year before anything goes wrong. She will live twenty years. None of that is a reason not to — it's just the part the video left out.
1 acre
Per animal, minimum, on decent grass.
~$1,400
A year, hay and hoof and mineral, no emergencies.
20 yrs
That's the commitment. Longer than most dogs.
Fencing, gates & water
Do this part before she arrivesWOVEN WIRE
Woven wire, 330 ft
$219
Barbed wire tears a Highland's coat and she doesn't respect it anyway. Woven wire, one strand of hot on top, done.
GATE LATCH
Two-way gate latch
$27
Opens with one hand while the other one is holding a bucket. That's the whole review.
TROUGH HEATER
Sinking trough heater
$44
The South freezes about six nights a year. Those are the six nights you'll be glad.
Grooming & hoof
The hair is the whole point, apparentlyRice-root curry brush
Stiff enough for a Highland coat, soft enough she stands still for it.
$18
Hoof pick & rasp set
For touch-ups between trims. The trims themselves, call somebody.
$32
Fly-repellent ear tags
Not glamorous. Cuts the horn-fly load by most of it.
$21
Rubber grooming mitt
What you hand a kid so they've got a job while you work.
$8
Ours —
the pasture panel
Emily draws each aisle its own panel and we print it on things you'd actually keep. This one is stitched — the whole scene rendered in thread, sheep and cow and donkey and the rabbit nobody asked for.
Woven throw, 50×60
$58
Cotton jacquard, woven not printed, so the texture is real. Lives on the back of a truck seat.
OURS · SHOPIFY
Barn-dog cushion bed
$74
Same panel on heavy canvas over a foam slab. Cover unzips and washes.
OURS · SHOPIFY
Framed panel print
$46
12×12 on cotton rag, in a plain oak frame. Hangs in a mud room without trying too hard.
OURS · ETSY
Enamel barn mug
$22
Speckled enamel over steel. It will chip. That's when it starts looking right.
OURS · ETSY