Ohio Miniature Herefords

04/02/2025

PVF Hometown Hero, homozygous polled and so dark red, he's practically purple!

03/08/2025

First calf in 2025 and she's a stunning homozygous polled heifer. Wow...just wow!

08/25/2024

HRF Sweet Strawberry, age 3, horned

08/25/2024

PVF Cherry Bomb, age 6, heterozygous polled, halter trained, confirmed bred

02/01/2024

The Fox news station called and asked me to bring a mini cow to the news station for a quick interview yesterday. My oldest girl (17 yr old "Bounce") is now a local celebrity.

The interview was fun, but we had even more fun talking to the news staff and all of the workers in nearby businesses that came out in the cold to see the mini cow when we were standing outside. Bounce is a great farm ambassador!

DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF) -- Robin Moshier of Pleasant Valley Farm in Jamestown joins Nathan Edwards along with Bounce, a miniature Hereford cow.Robin explains what m

09/04/2023

SS Cole joined the farm this summer as the new herd sire. He's homozygous polled, frame size 0, super dark red, and I cannot wait to see what his calves look like next year!

06/30/2023

Some mamas are experts at sneaking away to calve and hide their baby. This is the first time I was able to watch Strawberry calve since she joined my herd 3 years ago. From the point of water bag dropping to birth it was about an hour. Welcome to the farm Dixie Babe you are going to have a blast with your other 3 sisters!

04/30/2023

Thank you Joey Collins of Mechanicsburg for giving PVF Macon Mojo a new home. I'm looking forward to "Grandmoo" photos in the future!

04/02/2023

The scammers crossed the line with me yesterday with an unbelievably dirty move. I was expecting farm visitors, and was confused when a couple turned up and told me they expected to visit a micro mini Scottish Highland breeder (and then my expected customers arrived minutes later). The unexpected party showed me a text conversation that directed them to MY farm address (an hour south of their home). During our discussion they told me in the month prior they had sent a $100 deposit via PayPal for an arranged pickup of a calf (they were able to retrieve the money due to the PayPal policy). In the previous incident they had driven several hours to a vacant farm (recently sold) that matched pictures they had been sent.

A legitimate breeder/seller will provide you with a phone number and welcome a farm visit. Find a legitimate breeder through a valid breed association website or referral from a trusted source. I'm concerned about my farm address being used in a scam. Now I'm worried about a frustrated party stealing my animals or vandalizing my property if I'm not home when they show up.

Protect yourself by being an informed customer. Red flags about "sellers":

-The profile is a few months old, or has very few posts, the "about" information and list of friends is blank, the profile has "friends" or likes from foreign countries like Cameroon, Pakistan, India, Africa
-They provide a telephone number but you only get voicemail when you call and they never call you back. You reverse search the phone number and it is affiliated with multiple names that are foreign. They ignore your request and never provide a phone number. Ownership of the phone number doesn't match the name of the party posting the ad.
-The description of the animal posted doesn't match (states it's a heifer when the photo clearly shows the animal doesn't have a p***s or vice versa).
-Incomplete sentences, poor english or odd phrasing is evident in theirpost description (e.g., "cattles", "shipping agent", "I was happy with my purchase from Johnny ###", "Tammy delivered the cow safely ###").
-A registration number is never provided for the advertised animal.
-You find/see multiple posts for the same animal (photograph) on different pages or profiles and the s*x is different in each post, an older post states the animal is sold but it's readvertised a few months later, the party never answers key questions like location of animal or vaccination record.
-You look up the address in county property records and the ownership name doesn't match the name of the party posting the ad, or Google maps shows it's a vacant lot with no barns and fencing.
-The seller blocks you or stops responding to you if you ask detailed questions.

Feel free to comment and add other oddities you've encountered from clearly fake sellers. I don't know what, if anything, we as a community can do to crack down on these scammers. I do know I plan to write my elected officials requesting they find a way to crack down on this issue.

03/17/2023

First calf this year and she's gorgeous. Welcome to the farm Sassy Stevie! Pinky... you are such a good mama!

11/18/2021

Chilly W***y had a rough start with hypothermia, tube feeding. Suckling reflex was encouraged with corn syrup on my finger. After 36 hours warming up in the house and getting strength back, he walked out of the "maternity ward", yelled at the world, and skedaddled back to his nest in the shed under the heat lamp and went to sleep. I think he's going to make it!

10/10/2021

I spent 2 hours trimming the hooves on an older cow with a chisel and hammer. It totally worked. She was walking better afterward. Lesson learned, a narrow wood chisel works best (I started with a concrete chisel and couldn't even make a dent in the hoof). I didn't think to take before and after photo, but thought I'd share the YouTube video that helped me the most:

https://youtu.be/IWQTgkodfMk

This is one way to trim a tame cow's hooves at home for free. All you need is a place to contain your cow, a hammer, a chisel, and a piece of plywood. Fea...