expend : Galloways are an ideal strain for forage - based beef production . effective grazers and browsers , they pronto consume and fully utilize brush and coarse grasses that most breeds spurn . Galloway beef is flavourous . The breed is noted for producing well - marble carcass with large ribeyes and very little internal adipose tissue . When Galloways shed their wintertime coats , their easy undercoat can be combed , blended with other fibers , and whirl into narration . And , due to their protective nature , a few Galloways in a pasture are as effective as donkeys or llama for guarding sheep and goat from wander dogs .
History : Galloway kine originated in the Scottish Lowlands in the six shire horse that made up the Province of Galloway . As early as 1570 , Scottish philosopher Hector Boece wrote of Galloway cattle , saying , “ In this neighborhood ar mony fair ky [ cows ] and oxin … [their ] flesh is right toothsome and sensitive . ” Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius endorse that notion in 1573 when he wrote , “ In Carrick [ then part of Galloway ) are oxen of a large size of it , whose flesh is tender , sweet and juicy . ” record indicate that most early Galloways were black but red , browns , and brindles , with or without snowy grading were also passably common . Most were then as now naturally polled ( hornless ) . The first Galloway arrived in Canada in 1853 . In 1872 , the Ontario Galloway Herd Book was hire and in 1882 , Canadian and American fanciers link up to form the North American Galloway Association . A few year later , American breeders formed the American Galloway Breeders Association and the Canadian group reorganized as the North American Galloway Breeders Association . The latter register black , dun , and white-hot Galloways in separate section of the Canadian Galloway Herd Book , the former unendingly maintained Galloway ruck volume in the world . A separate American register for Galloways of the belted change ( the United States Belted Galloway Society ) was founded in 1951 , although the American Galloway Breeders Association also registers Fullblood , Belted , and White Galloways in freestanding herd books .
Conformation : According to American Galloway Breeders Association registration rules , Galloway oxen make out in three patterns : solid , white parkland , and belted . Solids are disastrous , flushed , or dun ( in shades ranging from silver gray to brown ) . A temperate amount of white on the underside is permissible . White Galloways must be of distinguishable “ white commons ” colouration : bloodless with black , red or dun pigment on the olfactory organ , ears , hooves and around the eyes . Some pigmentation on the legs , udder , and poll and a restrained amount of freckling throughout the body is permissible . Belted Galloways may be pitch-dark , red , or dun , and must have a ended white belt encircling their midsections . What all three color phases have in common are depth , heaviness , length of body , and intermediate size , with cow consider 1000 to 1300 pounds ; bulls , 1800 to 2000 pound sign . A hallmark of the stock is its handsome winter coat consisting of a bed of piano , insulative flat coat top by a app of rough-cut , wavy outer hair complete for shedding twist and rain .
Special Considerations / Notes : Galloways are friendly , docile cows ; even Taurus the Bull are take down for their calm demeanor . Cows are milky , paternal , and long - lived , with a well - merit reputation for getting in calf every year . And , though Galloways are a quintessential hardy , Northern breed , they adapt well to Southern climates too . Galloways are heel on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy ’s preservation priority list under the Watch category ( “ few than 2500 annual registrations in the United States and a ball-shaped population of less than 10,000 ” ) and Belted Galloways as a Recovering stock .
