Calling for -15 Monday night here in VA mountains with -30 wind chills...Galloways will be good to go hopefully. Pulling the Katahdin sheep into the barn area though.
We are in the Allegheny Mountains on WV/VA border. More like New England here than VA. My county actually has a large maple syrup industry. Would lean towards #4. We have very cold, wet, windy winters. Lots of snow and ice. But our summers are pretty nice- last summer the high temp was 83...
I've had Angus, Hereford, baldies and Simm-Ang. For my neck of the woods, and on our ground- the Galloways perform better than anything I've owned and handle the elements better. My Belties are just about as good- maybe just a tad behind the solid Galloways. Granted- this is a 100%...