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Stephen Newell

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I was driving down the highway yesterday when I happened to see the strangest herd of cattle I've ever seen before. Looking it up on google images I found out they were Belted Galloway cows.
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Aren't they cool? I love them.

Daughter calls them Oreo cows (though she knows they are Belted Galloways).
 
First time I saw them, took a lot of looking to make sure they were cows.

They are odd looking. Like the Oreo cow name.
 
Also called Dutch Belted, correct? We usually just call them 'Oreo Cookie Cows' too. See a few around here, but not herds of them... mostly people just wanted a few to add some variety to their herds.
 
I've got two in the herd, one black with white band and one red with the white band. They are good mothers and raise excellent calves. By cross breeding with Red Angus, the belts rarely carry over into the calves which is a god thing because when it comes time to sell the calves, the buyers will pull a belted one out of the group every time and then they are sold individually and bring about .25 per pound less. And for no good reason. The calves are just as good as the rest in the group, but they look different.
 
There is a heard of them where I live. We always called them Highway patrol cows when we were kids. The Highway Patrol office was just down the road.

Josh
 
I pass by a farm lot of those belted cattle, there is one in the lot, all black body, that has the white stripe from head to tail, all the way on the backbone. Wonder what happened.
 
No not the same breed. The Galloway is Scottish not Dutch although there is a theory that the breed may haave been created by crossing Black Galloways with The Dutch Belted or "Lakenvelder" breed.
 
I'm not a farmer but as I'm out driving around to jobs, working, I see alot of herds of Belted Galloways here in NC.
 
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Not at the schools I attended. I was in FFA in high school and studied animal husbandry in college where I was taught a bull is male & cow is female.
 
(quoted from post at 14:14:21 05/19/13) Well the picture off google images is a bull however what I saw along the highway were cows.
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Stephen
I figured you knew the difference in the Bovines sexes I was just having a little fun.
 
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