callmefence
Keyboard cowboy
Our local brand inspector has a mind like a steel trap. He can recite the entire menu from every sale barn cafe in central Texas
3waycross":141hp06n said:BrieCheese":141hp06n said:Update: the sale barn said no one had sold a beltie there for awhile and the name of the seller didn't show in their records (They just updated their system last year I think, records prior might be harder to get ahold of) and every ranch I called hadn't bought em. None of their tattoos are registered to anyone else either. I guess that's all I can do. Nothing left except to wait till I can get some again. If I'm lucky I still have some friends with some of my herd's lineage in them, I sold a few bulls to other people before I left and they should be purebred registered brothers to my best cows. Gotta graduate college first though.
If the brand inspector in that area is a sharp as most I know, he might even know where they ended up. I'd track him down and ask him
DLD":1zcmhav6 said:If it makes you feel any better, I and several others that I know have standing orders for any healthy belted Galloway appearing female we can find. There's apparently way more demand than supply of these cattle - in 8 years working at the same weekly sale (granted not a big one) I have yet to see one come through the ring. We might get a few steers every once in awhile, or a very old cow or bull, but never a heifer or a running age cow. And I do drive by two seperate herds of them on my way to the sale, so it's not as if there just aren't any around.