![]() The rest of the coat is normally black, but can also be dun or – more rarely – red. For bulls, no white is permitted anywhere else on the animal cows with some limited white markings on the lower legs can be registered in an appendix of the herd-book. The cattle are always belted, with a broad white belt completely encircling the body between the shoulder and the hind legs. ![]() In 2022 it was listed by the American Livestock Conservancy as "watch" in 2015 the total number in the United States was reported to be 1468. : 143 In 2012, there were approximately 3500 registered breeding cows in the United Kingdom. By 2007, numbers had recovered to the point where it could be removed from the endangered native breed watchlist of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust : 129 in the same year the global breed population was listed by the FAO as "not at risk". Like other breeds, the Belted Galloway suffered heavily during the epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease in the British Isles in 2001, and a substantial part of the total population was lost. Breed societies were started in New Zealand in 1948, in the USA in 1951, and in Australia in 1975. In the twentieth century the Belted Galloway was exported to many countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States. : 129 It also maintains herd-books for the Red Galloway and the White Galloway. In 1951 registration of non-belted dun cattle was discontinued, and the society changed its name to the Belted Galloway Society. In 1921 a group of breeders set up the Dun and Belted Galloway Association, which – as the name suggests – registered both belted and dun-coloured Galloway cattle its first herd-book was published in 1922. A separate Galloway herd-book was established in 1878. : 129įrom 1852, both Aberdeen Angus and Galloways could be registered in a herd-book for polled cattle. The origin of the white belt is unknown it is thought to have resulted from some cross-breeding with Dutch Lakenvelder cattle in the seventeenth century. : 129 Galloways are most often black, but other colours occur the white-belted or white-middled Galloway was one of them. The Belted Galloway derives from the traditional Galloway cattle of the Galloway region of south-western Scotland, which in turn form part of a broader group of traditional Scottish cattle including the Aberdeen Angus and Highland breeds. The cattle are reared principally for beef they may also be kept for ornament or for conservation grazing or vegetation management. The exact origin of the breed is unclear, although the white belt for which they are named, and which distinguishes the breed from black Galloway cattle, is often surmised to be the result of cross-breeding with the similarly-coloured Dutch Lakenvelder breed. It is adapted to living on the poor upland pastures and windswept moorlands of the region. ![]() ![]() It derives from the Galloway cattle of the Galloway region of south-western Scotland, and was established as a separate breed in 1921. The Belted Galloway is a traditional Scottish breed of beef cattle. ![]()
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