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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1827316" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>A totally non-belted calf out of a belted cow like that is very unusual... the belt tends to be very dominant... following down several generations in what experience I have had with them. </p><p></p><p>The picture of that mini calf with mini-hereford and mini-belted shows a pretty nice calf... the mini's are a niche thing... I like the belted galloways... although I do not consider them a mini breed....to me a mini breed is less than 6-700 lbs at maturity and galloways are bigger than that. Most are in the 1,000-1200 lbs size and bulls bigger. But that belt has created a real "obstacle" for selling the calves as feeders. Great if you can direct market them as halves or quarters.... and if you can raise them to the 1,000 lb + weight and sell as beef , they do okay... but not as good as a black would do. </p><p>The double heavy hair coat actually makes for less trim and less external carcass fat but the couple I have had processed had good internal marbling in the meat. The ones I had always did good in the cold and wet miserable weather...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1827316, member: 25884"] A totally non-belted calf out of a belted cow like that is very unusual... the belt tends to be very dominant... following down several generations in what experience I have had with them. The picture of that mini calf with mini-hereford and mini-belted shows a pretty nice calf... the mini's are a niche thing... I like the belted galloways... although I do not consider them a mini breed....to me a mini breed is less than 6-700 lbs at maturity and galloways are bigger than that. Most are in the 1,000-1200 lbs size and bulls bigger. But that belt has created a real "obstacle" for selling the calves as feeders. Great if you can direct market them as halves or quarters.... and if you can raise them to the 1,000 lb + weight and sell as beef , they do okay... but not as good as a black would do. The double heavy hair coat actually makes for less trim and less external carcass fat but the couple I have had processed had good internal marbling in the meat. The ones I had always did good in the cold and wet miserable weather... [/QUOTE]
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