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A separate Galloway herd-book was established in 1878. In 1921 a group of breeders set up the Dun and Belted Galloway Association, which – as the name suggests – registered both belted and dun-coloured animals; its first herd-book was published in 1922. In 1951 registration of non-belted dun cattle was discontinued, and the society changed ...
Galloway cows are of small to medium size, with weights in the range 450–600 kg; bulls normally weigh approximately 800 kg, but may reach weights of over 1000 kg. Heifer calves are born at a weight of some 35 kg , and reach a weight of about 250 kg at an age of thirteen or fourteen months.
Over 1000 breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses. [1]Cattle breeds fall into two main types, which are regarded as either two closely related species, or two subspecies of one species.
The breed was officially recognised in 1835, and was initially registered together with the Galloway in the Polled Herd Book. [4]: 96 A society was formed in 1879. [citation needed] The cattle became commonplace throughout the British Isles in the mid-twentieth century. [10]
It is a large and fast-growing breed. In 1974 the average weight of bullocks at 400 days was 590 kg, with an average height at the withers of 126 cm; some animals reached more than 750 kg in that time. In the twenty-first century the daily weight gain of bullocks in the first 400 days is approximately 1.5 kg. [4]: 303
The steers can reach weights of about 800 kg (1760 lb) and a height of 1.28 m (50 in), while cows weigh an average of 550 kg (1210 lb) and a height of 1.20 m (47 in). This sentence is misleading. Galloways, like many cattle breeds, are raised in many parts of the world, and have been bred for many different beef production systems.
An American breeder, Richard Gradwohl, has developed eighteen different strains of miniature cattle. [3] Miniature Galloway, Hereford and Holstein have been bred. [2]: 245 [3] In the United States, small zebuine cattle deriving from stock imported from Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Sweden may be registered as "Miniature Zebu"; [2]: 245 Similar cattle are known as "Nadudana" in Australia. [14]
A belted cow (nicknamed beltie or Oreo cow) may refer to: Belted Galloway from Scotland; Dutch Belted (Lakenvelder) This page was last edited on 7 ...