Belted galloway cows

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MtnCows93 said:
I was wondering if theres a way you can knock the belt off calves out of belted galloway mamas? they seem like good cows but the calves are only worth cull cow prices at the sale, they will bring 40 to 60 cents a pound with the white belt and im guessing a angus bull wouldnt throw solid black calves.

WOW I would buy all the Belties I could at 40 cents a pound!!!!
 
Angler said:
MtnCows93 said:
I was wondering if theres a way you can knock the belt off calves out of belted galloway mamas? they seem like good cows but the calves are only worth cull cow prices at the sale, they will bring 40 to 60 cents a pound with the white belt and im guessing a angus bull wouldnt throw solid black calves.

WOW I would buy all the Belties I could at 40 cents a pound!!!!

Yep. Seen purebred hereford heifers bred sell for .77 lb.
 
I have a Belted Galloway cow. Last year, she had a solid black bull calf out of a red Saler bull. This year she had a grey belted bull out of a Charolais bull. She is bred back to the Charolais bull for next year, but I am moving her to the herd with the Santa Gertrudis bull just for something different on the next calf.
 
I have a heifer by a registered belted Galloway bull out of a huge beefmaster cow. I got her at one day old due to a blown udder on the momma. I grafted her onto a Jersey cow. She nursed 6 months. She had hay and some pasture and has had some grain all along. So at 20 months she is about 650 pounds. I did breed her in june so she will calve in late march. Right now she is getting 5 pounds of 14% creep a day plus hay. She has been dewormed and she looks and acts healthy. But she is so small and slow growing. She was a 75 pound bw calf. She is tiny compared to my other cattle and I dont have big cattle. I love how belties look and their disposition seems great but they just grow too slow for me. I'm interested in seeing how her calf will grow. She is bred to a brangus/red Angus cross bull.
 
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No, I bought them as a present for my wife. They got sold in real life market. If they were so good there would be no straight black cattle now would there? They are hobby cattle and nothing more.
We raise our bred Belted Galloway steers for for dry aged grass fed retail beef. Belties are the breed most genetically suited for all grass and hay cattle. The beef is very good. We get $8.00 lb for rail weight. Angus and other breeds will sell for $6.00 lb rail weight. Why does the Beltie bring more. It's very tasty and heart healthy. You would have to do your homework to see the benefits of Belted Galloway cattle. Our steers get to 1,300 pounds. Rail weight will be approximately 650. Do the math. That's $5,200. We've been doing this for awhile and have educated our customers on the benefits. This breed has been around for 1,100 years. BG beef is highly regarded in restaurants in the British Isles. And they don't bring anything at the stockyard, but I'll take my $5,200 and never set foot at an auction barn.
 
We raise our bred Belted Galloway steers for for dry aged grass fed retail beef. Belties are the breed most genetically suited for all grass and hay cattle. The beef is very good. We get $8.00 lb for rail weight. Angus and other breeds will sell for $6.00 lb rail weight. Why does the Beltie bring more. It's very tasty and heart healthy. You would have to do your homework to see the benefits of Belted Galloway cattle. Our steers get to 1,300 pounds. Rail weight will be approximately 650. Do the math. That's $5,200. We've been doing this for awhile and have educated our customers on the benefits. This breed has been around for 1,100 years. BG beef is highly regarded in restaurants in the British Isles. And they don't bring anything at the stockyard, but I'll take my $5,200 and never set foot at an auction barn.
What age are these 1300# steers? Are they weighed on the hoof or guessed weight?
I would think that a beef breed would have a higher hanging weight percentage relative to live weight.
We bought a couple belted Galloways around a couple years ago at a stockyards. Got a 3 in 1 package, cow with a heifer calf ready to wean, and cow was bred back.
These are full size but typical for the breed they are little smaller framed than our Angus and Hereford.
They really don't fit with our herd, they are pretty much aquatic 7-8 months out of the year. They are probably enjoying this winter weather though.
 
If you want Galloways. Get the pure black variety not the belted ones. They won't take nearly the dock that the belts get. And if you cross breed them with anything else they will sell a lot better. Neighbor has 20 or so of them. They are coming 3 year old and the cows look to be about 1,200 pounds.
 
Dave , isn't that the neighbor idiot that you said wouldn't last and didn't know what her was doing? Now you are recommending others follow in his footsteps? Or is he not as dumb as you assumed?
 
I'm not Dave, but I don't see him anywhere in his post recommending others follow in his neighbors footsteps. He just said if someone wants Galloway cattle in a commercial operation selling at the market to get the black ones because they and their crossbreds sell better than the belted ones and their crossbreds do there. I don't take that as an endorsement of the breed or his neighbors herd setup. It sounds like his neighbors cattle have survived despite their owner, and not because of their management or herd plan.
 
We raise our bred Belted Galloway steers for for dry aged grass fed retail beef. Belties are the breed most genetically suited for all grass and hay cattle. The beef is very good. We get $8.00 lb for rail weight. Angus and other breeds will sell for $6.00 lb rail weight. Why does the Beltie bring more. It's very tasty and heart healthy. You would have to do your homework to see the benefits of Belted Galloway cattle. Our steers get to 1,300 pounds. Rail weight will be approximately 650. Do the math. That's $5,200. We've been doing this for awhile and have educated our customers on the benefits. This breed has been around for 1,100 years. BG beef is highly regarded in restaurants in the British Isles. And they don't bring anything at the stockyard, but I'll take my $5,200 and never set foot at an auction barn.
Bull5h!+
 
I'm not Dave, but I don't see him anywhere in his post recommending others follow in his neighbors footsteps. He just said if someone wants Galloway cattle in a commercial operation selling at the market to get the black ones because they and their crossbreds sell better than the belted ones and their crossbreds do there. I don't take that as an endorsement of the breed or his neighbors herd setup. It sounds like his neighbors cattle have survived despite their owner, and not because of their management or herd plan.
That's how I take his statement too, not an endorsement of the breed.
 
From my interpretation of the comments-worthwhile to raise for beef if selling as beef, not good commercially due to less size and maybe not as good of gain/heat intolerance? So if one is available fairly cheaply, jump on it for beef?
 

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