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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. [4]: 181
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]
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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]
The Lakenvelder is finely built and of small to medium size, with a withers height in the range 126–136 cm for cows and averaging 133 cm [4]: 225 or 137 cm for bulls. [ 3 ] : 97 Body weights are variously reported as 500 kg [ 4 ] : 225 or 700 kg for bulls, [ 3 ] : 97 and 450 kg [ 4 ] : 224 or 550 kg for cows.
The Dutch Belted or Dutch Belt is an American breed of dairy cattle. It derives from the Lakenvelder of Germany and the Netherlands, of which examples were imported to the United States from 1838. [ 4 ] : 171 [ 5 ] : 96 [ 6 ] It became an important dairy breed in the early twentieth century, but could not compete with the Holstein-Friesian .
On average, cattle will consume 1.4 to 4% of their body weight daily. [8] There is a range of types of feed available for these animals. The standard text in the United States, Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle , has been through eight editions over at least seventy years. [ 9 ]