What are they?

[Texasmark]

Ok, this is Cattle Today Site....these are cattle????
Breeds board.....curious as to the breed????
Was down in beef country today, (Emory, TX.) and saw half a dozen "things in a guys front yard. Look to weigh 1800 give or take a couple hundred, looked like very well fed cattle, were all black with a very large white saddle consuming most of the mid section. All were marked exactly alike. Never saw such a thing.

Any ideas?

 

[Caustic Burno]

Sound like belted Galloway

 

[dun]

I agree with CB, but with that size maybe Dutch Belted

 

[ALACOWMAN]

I agree with CB, but with that size maybe Dutch Belted

Yep never seen any get that big at least around here... https://www.google.com/search?q=belted+ ... LpCSp0E5PM:

 

[dun]

I agree with CB, but with that size maybe Dutch Belted

Yep never seen any get that big at least around here... https://www.google.com/search?q=belted+ ... LpCSp0E5PM:

The size is what made me think Dutch Belted, never seen that big of a galloway either

 

[slick4591]

If you saw those on 69 going out of Greenville to Emory they were the Belted Galloway.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

They say their meat is is some of the best, great marbling...course there's marketing them,,folks tend to think its a hobby breed..and that all the breeders wear sandals and have ponytails....

 

[Muddy]

Belted Galloways do get big, just depends on the bloodlines. Sounds like a belted Galloway more than a Dutch Belted tho it's possible they're Buelingos.

 

[farmerjan]

Belted Galloway if they were a beefy built animal, and some bloodlines do get big. Have a thicker type coat of hair, often curly. They have a double haircoat which makes them very good in the cold. They come in a couple of colors, black, red, dun, both belted and solid.
If it was a much finer boned, statuesque type of cow with alot more udder then a Dutch Belted. They normally get about 14-1600 at full maturity, but again it depends on the bloodline. Good milkers, good on grazing dairies.

 

[greybeard]

They say their meat is is some of the best, great marbling...course there's marketing them,,folks tend to think its a hobby breed..and that all the breeders wear sandals and have ponytails....

they spool up the ponytails nowadays I believe...correct nomenclature=manbuns.

 

[callmefence]

They ran a handful of heavy bred young bellies through the sale at lampasas Wednesday. I think they sold for around 700.00
I mean they were nice young well conditioned cows 8 months bred. I don't know why nobody liked them. I had to sit on my hands.

 

[Rafter S]

They ran a handful of heavy bred young bellies through the sale at lampasas Wednesday. I think they sold for around 700.00
I mean they were nice young well conditioned cows 8 months bred. I don't know why nobody liked them. I had to sit on my hands.

I don't have any experience with them, but I've heard it's harder to breed that color pattern out than it is to breed spots off of Longhorns.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

They ran a handful of heavy bred young bellies through the sale at lampasas Wednesday. I think they sold for around 700.00
I mean they were nice young well conditioned cows 8 months bred. I don't know why nobody liked them. I had to sit on my hands.

Most cattlemen ""Here'' would be afraid of just what you seen.taking a hit on them..personally I wouldnt mind having some to cross with.. If I could breed that belt out of em,, it's like trying to tone down the Brahman Influence...it just keeps going, and going and going.....

 

[greybeard]

If you saw those on 69 going out of Greenville to Emory they were the Belted Galloway.

I've seen those same Oreos several times over the years.

 

[pdfangus]

I have seen a belted galloway bull back in the 70s that probably weighed 2200 or more....he was a big rascal

 

[Muddy]

You can breed the belt out. We have several Angus x Beltie cows that are solid black. You won't get a solid black one on first generation but can get solid calves on second generation. After F1, it's usually 50% chance of getting solid calf and 50% chance of getting a belted calf....no different from skunktails or whiteface.

 

[Muddy]

 

[dun]

They ran a handful of heavy bred young bellies through the sale at lampasas Wednesday. I think they sold for around 700.00
I mean they were nice young well conditioned cows 8 months bred. I don't know why nobody liked them. I had to sit on my hands.

I don't have any experience with them, but I've heard it's harder to breed that color pattern out than it is to breed spots off of Longhorns.

I heard the same thing from a dairyman. He used a Dutch belted bull one year and a coouple of generations later he was still getting belts occasionally. Maybe the spotting gene in Holsteins augments it.

 

[Muddy]

They ran a handful of heavy bred young bellies through the sale at lampasas Wednesday. I think they sold for around 700.00
I mean they were nice young well conditioned cows 8 months bred. I don't know why nobody liked them. I had to sit on my hands.

I don't have any experience with them, but I've heard it's harder to breed that color pattern out than it is to breed spots off of Longhorns.

I heard the same thing from a dairyman. He used a Dutch belted bull one year and a coouple of generations later he was still getting belts occasionally. Maybe the spotting gene in Holsteins augments it.

It's easy to hide a belt marking in the Holsteins spot pattern. It's not hard to breed belts out than breed spots off of longhorns.

 

[M.Magis]

Getting the occasional solid calf isn't breeding the belt out.