MaHuRuCo Highlands Cow Farm

MaHuRuCo Highlands & Rare Breeds

We're sustainable livestock farmers and run a variety of pedigree breeds including Dexter and Highland Cows, as well as a few hundred sheep including Herdwick, Hebridean, Shropshire, and Scottish Blackface, to serve our local community via the on-site farm shop.
We provide educational tours on our regenerative farm in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, giving visitors from across the country the opportunity to learn more about where their food comes from.

All our cattle are pedigree, and our Yorkshire Highland Cows are registered with the Highland Cattle Society.

Highland Cattle Society Logo feat Highland Cow

We are also members of the North of England Highland Cattle Breeders Club (NEHCBC). We strongly believe in the Highlanders and are doing our best to improve the breed. We prefer to use natural breeding methods rather than to save money using modern artificial insemination.

MaHaRuCo Highlands website
Logo of Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust featuring a stylized badger head.

We also work with Sheffield & Rotherham and Derbyshire Wildlife Trusts to provide cows for local conservational grazing.

Logo of Derbyshire Wildlife Trust featuring a stylized badger head in black and white with the text 'Derbyshire Wildlife Trust' beside it.
HiHealth Herdcare Cow Logo

We are proud to be HiHealth Herdcare Accredited Disease Free. The cattle health scheme enables you to eliminate disease from your herd. Testing for the five main diseases found in Highland Cattle.

Meet the MaHuRuCo Farm Team

THE MALIAS
The Coo Keepers.

Meet the Malias, a first-generation farming family based on a sustainable farm in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, raising a variety of pedigree breeds including Highland and Dexter cows, Boer goats and Herdwick, Hebridean, Shropshire and Scottish Blackface sheep as well as 4 children. Which is where our fold name, MaHuRuCo, comes from, the first two letters of each child’s first name.

Visit the MaHuRuCo Highlands website

Ash’s fave coo: Wendreda Ruadh of Kelby

Alice's fave coo: Lily Alice of Luruha

A collage with two photos. The top photo shows a smiling man and woman in rain jackets, identified as Ash and Alice, with titles Mr. Farmer and Mrs. Farmer. The bottom photo shows four children in outdoor clothing on a boat, labeled Ruben, Corin, MaHeve, and Hugo. The collage is titled MaHuRuCo Family.

SHAN
The Tour Queen

Shan is one of our tour guides and farmers. Joined us from Horncastle Farm.

Fave coo: Skye 8th of Rannoch

Woman with long dark hair, wearing a gray beanie, brown jacket, and rubber boots, holding a red leash attached to a fluffy light brown mini highland cow, standing inside festively decorated space with Christmas trees, presents, and wreaths.

RICHARD
The Cow Boy

Richard used to run his own gardening business but is now one of our tour guides and farmers.

Fave coo: Cannach 13th of Cnoc na Sith

A man standing next to a Highland cow inside a barn with a brick wall. The man is wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a dark jacket, and jeans. The cow has long, shaggy reddish-brown fur and yellow ear tags. A neon sign on the wall reads 'Highland Cows of the Peak' with a stylized Highland cow head illustration in neon lights.

HELEN
The Calf Connoisseur

Helen is usually your guide for the Mini Moo Meet and Greets. She specialises in halter training and the well-being of the young weaned calves on the farm and has a decades experience at showing and looking after Highlands.

Fave coo: Claggorm 63rd of Glengarnock

A woman in a blue jacket and green rubber boots standing inside a farm building with a Highland cow on a leash. There are barrels in the background and a sign that reads 'Whirlow Hall Farm'.