The Wild Cattle of Chillingham
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- čas přidán 21. 10. 2014
- The world's only herd of wild cattle have lived at Chillingham for over 800 years. There are only around 100 of them left, making them rarer than the Giant Panda. I highly recommend a visit to see them, they are truly amazing animals in a stunning location.
Reminds me of reading about a sign fixed up by a farmer: 'Entry to this field is free. The bull will charge later.'
In regards to the statement " no other cattle breed could survive " , I had a neighbor who bought a holstein cow and calf at auction. He took them home and kept them in his yard , after a few weeks they disappeared. 3 years later hunters began to report sightings of a holstein cow up north along the battle river , he went up to see and it was his cow . Had 3 calves (1,2 and 3 years old) with her. Blind in one eye but otherwise healthy. Winters down to -50 ,no feed or water , found a bull every summer . Did just fine . Don't say that only the chilingham cattle could survive englands relatively mild winters
There are beef producers here in America (where the winters are harsher except in Florida) who have the Mama's wean their calves. Not as uncommon as this guy let on
@@willieclark2256 it has been done here also , but generally speaking the instinct to self wean has been bred out , and if the calves stay on to long then the cow has trouble building their body condition enough for the winter. The old time cows would cut milk production till the calf quit sucking , but now they keep producing till forced to stop
@@lesgallivan4159 and good producers cull those animals.
@@willieclark2256 it depends on the operation, here a lot of people aim for a 8-9 hundred pound weaning weight , and sell to a feedlot that will have them finished by 13 months age For that you need a cow that produces high right to the end of grazing . And with our grass only lasting from June to end of August you need a cow that really pumps
Where is your "here",sir?
We saw them back in 2009 and they are amazing. You can't get near them - they're very dangerous and you need to stay with the ranger in charge - but it was a great privilege to be there. They were safe all through the ravages of disease - foot & mouth and Mad Cow - that swept through the UK a few years ago, thank goodness.
Yes, a couple dozen generations of them and we get aurochs back, very nice
That would be awesome
Their already 800 years old lol. Do animals even devolve? 😂
@@lordsofafan372 400 years so not to long
@@lordsofafan372
Maybe they can revolve
That's not how evolution works. They may be descendants of the auroch, but they have many differences. They're smaller, have less muscle mass, their horns aren't large enough or the right shape, and their sexual dimorphic coloration is gone. They won't revert back to the auroch, as they're technically a different subspecies, with some preserved wild instincts, like that of feral animals, like chickens, for example. Feral chickens look similar to their wild ancestors, yet they're still visually distinct, having different plumage.
If these cattle are going to return to an appearance similar to the auroch, they're going to need to continue breeding, and passing on the necessary traits for many hundreds to thousands of successive generations, if natural selection is acted on. They're also going to need an increased gene pool to better sustain them into the future, and grant a higher chance that beneficial mutations are passed accordingly.
I would never want to be in a ding dong Battle with one of these bulls.
from what I hear, ding dong battles are pretty big in England.
JustaDumbFarmer, jose portillo yes, I’m English and I can tell you I wouldn’t mind going head to head with one of these bulls. Just not ding to dong. We’re tough but not that tough. Seriously though, super film, I had no idea these fellows existed.
Bwahaha! LOL doesn't even come close to laughter I just let out. My thoughts exactly.
I wish all animals had this type of privilege to be wild to be free
You might want to ask the people in Hawaii and the American south how they like the "wild and free" pigs.
Do you want cattle to go extinct?
You'd be surprised how domesticated cattle can survive in a hell of a lot tougher environment that anything you find in England.
Even a factory farm - apparently :\
Matt Wassam we haven’t been babying them for that long. We graded them with no fence for thousands of me.
Matt Wassam
Try the high desert of Nevada, USA.
I would like to start the first Chillingham Wild White Cattle herd to repopulate Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Super Dave try the high plains of Montana.
Thanks for that very interesting story. I’ve never heard of them before.
i loved visiting here back in 2016. the castle itself was lovely, but the cattle were my favourite part.
There's something... prehistoric about wild cows just running around in the background.
Wow amazing place very interesting to see this beautiful place
Brilliant video, great history and information.
I wonder how genetically similar they are to the extinct aurochs? They look very similar, except for the color, and their horns are identical to those in historical images. The aurochs were around until the 1600s, so it wasn't that long ago.
Aurochs went extinct in England before that but they belong to the cattle breeds most similar to the aurochs but they are not the top 40. But they share a lot of aurochs traits
Looks identical except the color.
I think the aurochs were a lot bigger.
@@karenbartlett1307 yes but that's due to diet and environmental factors.
@@gentilewarrior Oh. Ok.
Interesting - thanks for the upload!
Beautiful, especially the furry heads!
Thank you ! They are very Beutiful cattle ❤
I would like to see the first established Chillingham Wild White Cattle herd in Derbyshire.
I would agree with you . I bet they were awesome .
Cool video, very interesting. The cattle are so cute lol MoOoOoOoOo!!
If they're so healthy & able to survive on very little. Then they can shoukd be protected not only for their own sake. But as a backup to domestic cattle as well.
They are protected.
Intriguing why they suffer from so much diarrhea if they’re just eating grass with no strange additives.
@@Rwizaify not at all, young grass will go straight through them.
@@alistairclement4239 I wasn’t aware of that. Then they should develop the instinct of adding some mature grass and leaves in their diet.
@@Rwizaifytheir full of worms and if they weren't wild they'd need a dose/injection
I love to see wild cattle! These animals should be able to live in the wild
Although I agree in principle, most would not survive "the wild" in the broader sense owing to their (un)natural predator, man, having developed the firearm. This herd is not just a tourist attraction, but a very good research model with respect to "closed" breeding, so a credit to all involved in its preservation over the centuries. Let us all hope that they will still be there for years to come.
I would absolutely love to visit this place
They are beautiful!
Beautiful animals!
I like their curly fur. The calves look so cute.
At a certain point inbreeding might be a problem. I'm not sure, but we see this in domestic animals who's stud books are closed. The one think that helps in this situation is that the cattle would be naturally culled, the weak ones would die, if they do indeed survive without interventions. The rule for breeders is the more inbreed your line is, it means that you must also cull more aggressively. I am an out cross breeder myself because I find the harsh culling an unpleasant business, but my type is more varied, that is the price I pay.
Apparently, in-breeding over 800+ years has made them a species, rather than "cattle" They are incredibly tough and the bulls will actually fight to the death, unlike most domestic cattle. Unlike some herds of American Bison, self-entitled idiots with guns are not trying to kill them for entertainment.
There has been a domestic herd left to go wild on a Scottish island that has been left for over 50 years and there instinctive wildness has naturally developed. If humans visit for research the cattle form a ring with the young in the middle for protection.
I would like to say life on earth has been around for about 800 million years without influence from man so I dont get why we think we know best in how animals produce . Maybe that little bit of inbreeding is the tusk that grows to 16 ft on an african elephant or the bull sharks capabilities to swim in fresh water. There are so many factors.
Purity reach after 14 generations for the desired traits is normal on nature. Look at how deer or rabbits are marked exactly the same. Those that vary from the exact type that fits an environment die. Very close breeding insure survival and is never a problem as purity removes or purified the undesirable traits out of the gene pool.
@@andylyon3867 You have a good point, through natural selection, weakness in a gene pool is eliminated, but there are thresholds, and research shows that if there are insufficient numbers, characteristics such as fertility and immunity can become problems. Also, with a limited gene pool adaptability suffers if the environment changes.
@@andylyon3867 They are actually classed as a species now!
Wunderschöne, faszinierende Rinder!💕💕
Beautiful animals!! ✋💂♂️👍✈ Washington state!!
I love this episode....
Beautiful cattle! ❤
The Chillingham herd are impressive beasts and together with the Welsh Vaynol breed and the White Park herd probably are derived from the ancient British White breed. The Chillingham herd are most likely examples of this ancient breed which got trapped when the grounds were enclosed. Many modern cattle share characteristics of the extinct wild Aurochs (Ur-Ox = original ox) and are effectively subspecies of the extinct original.
They Chillingham herd are impressive to see though. When I was there (a while ago now!) they understandably did not allow you up close to them.
Look at the Longhorn history. They were wild for hundreds of years in very desolate places.
I remember we had a beautiful red limosine bull and a badly marked smaller Red white head bull and who do you think all of the calves where from? Yes it was the white head only one cow had a limosine calf. It just shows nature servival of strongest.
Some big ding dong battles 😆
Beautiful Beasts. At first I thought the moos in the background was my cellphone vibrating xD
Beautiful Cattle
❤️❤️❤️ Love animalss so adorablee
Amazing
Awesome sir
Hardy and handsome They look awesome
amazing story
always love to see really hard ding-dong battles.
Same. Was disappointed they didn't show any of these hard, ding-dong battles. Off to Pornhub.
@@SluttChops or in the case of bulls, Hornpub.
so cool!!
Very interesting article and nice to see. Thank you for taking the trouble.
if you have some love in your heart you will have to fight for it, classic.
Awesome
How cool is that
2:56 CUTE
Some previous comments concerned the aurochs, and that was the question I asked myself when I saw the title. So...what do we know of the genetics of these cattle in comparison to that of the aurochs? Surely someone has been looking in to this as the various aurochs projects (and there are several) have gained so much traction lately.
Mamu u r doing great work ll
Id love to see myself but mainly id like to know the breeds they look great.
There are other herds of wild cattle both in Australia and new zealand
Sgtgewart smith there feral
yes but by the sound of it they were originally domesticated cattle gone feral. And what time mspan covers feral to wild
And Hawaii and the American southwest and the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and dozens of other places.
well done they were sent with criminals and children because Britain couldnt be are arsed
But they haven't been feral for 800 years
"they turfed the farmer off who was here" -- ah yes, the noble environmentalist at work.
Followed by " they found another farm for him......" Yeah .. right ...
You two need to learn history, not skim over it and call yourself cynical. Just a thought.
Can I purchase these calfs! They are very beautiful cattle.
There wild but you keep extras in Scotland to restock?
So exceedingly excellent. Just wondering how this breed could get accustomed to wild predators like wolfs and bears. Is there no island or reserve in the Great British Realm for such a rewilding project?
No space for it with the exception of some areas of Scotland
I’m sure they could
Good videos sir😮
They badly need a shot of Ivomec D... They remind me the Magyar alföldi, but smaller, and with shorter horns... Precious stock ! I would feed them all the best stuff !
I bet it taste better than what comes out of the stores
beatiful
Keep them wild !
Heirlooms of England
3:10 is that an open wound the flies are all converging on?
They could maybe use some of these in the breeding programme to bring back the aurochs. It’s a shame they are so in bred
These may indeed be the white bulls.
So lauded by the Druids.
These cattle are not inbred.There is another herd in Scotland.In the event new bloodlines are required.However the Chillingham herd is in full vigor.
@@doniellestenson3502 Scottish herd has the same genetics, it was created by moving some of the Chillinham cows there, when the foot and mouth disease threatened the park.
In breeding is not a problem as long as the population is without any serious genetical defects or illnesses. Cheetahs are extremely in bred as a species, yet they are doing fine
Nah man they are already a back bre sour oh at least in a new way, they are already a wild animal, why change them
is it next to warmingville?
This breed remember me of the maremmana cattle
What about the 2001 foot and mouth cull?
Pygmy aurochs? I've heard that large wild animals often become smaller in isolation, like the last mammoths and the homo erectus who lived on that island in Indonesia.
Thing is, they're white too, and the auroch went extinct earlier in GB than in the continent.
This is so dang cool! I wish I could work on this farm/ranch. Are they ever harvested for anything? I wonder if they are gamey.
I have been there.
La conservación de estás especies es importante.
Lol the moo at the end
The cloners of planet Camino have now entered the chat. 😁
I wonder if you left cattle wild long enough if they would breed back to something like an auroch?
Genes lost in domestication are lost for ever. But I estimate they would manage in nature as they are now, so they do not need to change. Perhaps a distinct breeding season might be an helpfull addition.
Well rewinding Europe is doing that, but in reality these are pretty much uk auroch, and in my opinion should be rewilded into that animal
From personal experience, I can tell you that these are the best cows out there.......
Especially barbecued!
OK, you go chase one down, kill it and chop it up ;) (I know you're just saying that in fun)
totaltwit
Just yanking chains.
Thanks brother.
The high pitched moos at 1:51 sound like a phone vibrating
satisfying lol
In Estonia we have local breed (Eesti maatõug) with only ca. 200 animals left but thankfully sperm bank started over 50 y ago is saving the breed from worst. Breed couldn't compete more productive breeds being smaller and giving less milk thus having no interest by dairy farmers to keep them. But one small farmer kept 50+ animals semi wild for grazing his lands between bogs only giving hey in winter (we have sometimes-30C in winter) and they coped perfectly on their own with wolves and bears. Only some times there were problems with some more productive cows whose calf couldn't drink all the milk and mastitis occurred. For that he took pigs who learnt to milk cows and as cows having relief from pain invited gladly pigs to milk them.
150 years ago local breed used to be much smaller and with horns but unfortunately different from seen in video they started breeding and mixed it for higher production.
Cuiden esa bonita raza.
Around Chernobyl there are now wild cows in the restricted area. Cows where left when people had to move away and those cows now lead a free life and are doing OK.
Nothing like a good DING DONG battle. Ha ha
People are gushing about them being wild and free. If there's a fence around them then they definitely aren't free!
Arguably, they are feral and an unmanaged herd, but not wild.
Still pretty cool. Might be some unique genetics that could be used to increase hardiness or hybrid vigor with some other breeds.
What will happen if you get more and more ??
Presumably, those that are culled are eaten? How does the fillet steak compare to that of an Aberdeen Angus?
I don’t think they actually eat them, they either bury them or take them further away from the herd to let Badgers and Foxes eat.
Am I right in thinking only a "king" bull Bred , or and now the herd is much larger now compared with when I was there in early 70,s when bad winters had reduced numbers other bulls get a look in
Aurochs?
They almost look like domesticated Charolais cattle,
Thought the same, except for the horns, charolais are naturally poled.
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 Pardon ?? Have you ever seen a purebred Charolais one day ? They are HORNED, big horns and let me tell you that the bull's horns are terrible and they go strait apart each side of the head (those of cows are more like the auroch ones) and can skewer you just like a lump of butter !! Greetings from France :-)
@@Effemo58 I'm chagrined ☺, was a Hereford man 50 years ago. All the Charolais around were polled same as angus. (Hmm, Angus may not be naturally polled either)
I guess never helping my neighbors with them dehorn them jumped me to that conclusion.
@@ferengiprofiteer9145 Sorry, I didn't want to offend you. I don't really know about "foreign" breed of cows but it seems that there are few breeds in which there are two lines : one line with horns and one line without naturally and maybe the Angus is part of these. Well, the physical difference is easy to make : the naturally poled have a round and smooth top skull then the artificially poled have the "horn socle" (sorry I don't know the right word in English) is still developping and the shape of the sull looks like a non-polled head. My english is not super, I hope you understand what I mean. Greetings :-)
@@Effemo58 We're good my friend. 50 years ago, when I was involved with cattle, charolais were new to my area and it was a polled variety.
Not the first time something I knew for a fact turned out not to be true.😉👍
How do they deal with the inbreeding? I would have thought that it's not a big enough herd to sustain them.
i would be inclined to agree but they've been there 800 years. also if there is anything wrong with any one of the calves, the cows will kill it.
@@alistairclement4239 When I start T Birds Falconry it would be the first Falconry Centre to bring the First Chillingham White Cattle herd in Derbyshire.
Did he just ding ding battles 😂😂😂😂😂
It is just amazing that they adapted to live free .maybe they are adapting to climate change on their own and don't need our help teaching us that they can do it on their own will let's give them the chance everybody everything deserves a chance to live free so be it give them that chance God bless
I wonder if they manage the number of bulls in the herd, you can have only so many bulls to cows?
Nope
These remind me of the austeraux (sic?)
They are so big
These are NOT the only wild cattle in the world. Wild herds exist in Australia and New Zealand.
Yep, they act pretty wild too.
do they ever bring a couple of cows from the scotland herd to add to the gene pool?
No
@Horse Malone When I establish the T-Birds Falconry Centre, I would to also establish the first Chillingham Wild White Cattle herd in Derbyshire.
Their profile look a lot like Aurochs.
Long way from being "the world's only herd of wild cattle". One hundred head on 330 acres doesn't even count as free ranging.
you are talking about mongrel beef and dairy cattle that have gone feral...these are unique.
@@TonyL2567 When I turn T-Birds Falconry into a reality, it will be the first Falconry Centre to have Chillingham Wild White Cattle as a herd in Derbyshire.
daniel taylor good luck
@@TonyL2567 many thanks. T Birds will be the first Falconry Centre to be a branch of the British Falconry Club for young people and also the first Falconry centre to show and preserve Medieval life. Chillingham White Cattle, Herdwick Sheep, Shire Horses and Suffolk Punch Horses as well as Aylesbury Ducks and Derbyshire Red Cap Chickens and Birds of Prey.
Bulls from Spain should be introduced in the pool gene ..... the probably are of the same breed .... so this breeding should be line breeding and will strengthen the breed
Can you please tell me the weight of males and females chillingham
Bulls weigh 300 to 400 kilograms while Females weigh 200 kilograms
Belo touro
What's the price for bull?
What breed did they come from 800 years ago, and are any for sale
800 years ago, there were no distinct cattle breeds. none of these are sold.
@@alistairclement4239 I would like to establish a herd of Chillingham Cattle in Derbyshire because there is evidence of the Pre-christian people in Birchover. Since Matlock Farm Park backs onto woodland near Darwin Forest it would be the most realistic place to keep them and if it is a success a second herd at Sherwood Forest would be promising.
I thought the name Chillingham was a joke at first referring to the cows just chilling around or something LOL didnt think it was an actual place
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