Native breeds photographs

[Cowgirl]

Haven’t posted for a while but thought you all might like to see our old stock bull Frank - he was 12 on September 23rd! Still producing nice calves.

 

[Cowgirl]

This cow is also 12 - think we should wean the calf soon!

 

[Cowgirl]

Young bull we are using at the moment - son of @Woolless ’s bull.

 

[Woolless]

This cow is also 12 - think we should wean the calf soon!
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That's a fair outfit @Cowgirl !

 

[Cowgirl]

Young bull we are using at the moment - son of @Woolless ’s bull.View attachment 1138773View attachment 1138774View attachment 1138775

This boy is looking for a new home soon - would appreciate spreading the news!

 

[Woolless]

This boy is looking for a new home soon - would appreciate spreading the news!

Well, I have been very pleased with his father: Quiet, easy-calving and fertile as well as looking the part

 

[lady muck]

Some of my White Galloways taken a few weeks ago before the weather completely broke.

 

[Hooby Farmer]

I've a few Irish Moiled heifers here on a bit of summer grazing before they get moved to some national trust ground.

 

[lady muck]

Just before storm Agnes. I gave them a new feedblock but they were looking for something better or to move field

 

[Jerry]

Devon cow doing a nice job, un assited

 

[Henarar]

Beltys at Crickley hill today

 

[Series 1]

A Hereford X heifer, very proud of her Shorthorn bull calf born yesterday.

 

[JP1]

Guy Doldring down in Devon had his first calf today to the Riggit Galloway bull I sold him and it's a bonny, well marked, strong heifer calf. Made up for him

 

[willowwarbler]

Guy Doldring down in Devon had his first calf today to the Riggit Galloway bull I sold him and it's a bonny, well marked, strong heifer calf. Made up for him

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Snap! Different breeding , but equally pretty calves. My 2 are heifers , by our Native Angus bull. Dams are full sisters by a Bazadaise bull, out of a Jersey X British White x B Blue . So a 5 way cross! Although we are trying to have less cattle , how can I not keep these 2 beauties!?

 

[Woolless]

Snap! Different breeding , but equally pretty calves. My 2 are heifers , by our Native Angus bull. Dams are full sisters by a Bazadaise bull, out of a Jersey X British White x B Blue . So a 5 way cross! Although we are trying to have less cattle , how can I not keep these 2 beauties!?

Yes, I think space should definitely be made for them!

 

[Henarar]

Snap! Different breeding , but equally pretty calves. My 2 are heifers , by our Native Angus bull. Dams are full sisters by a Bazadaise bull, out of a Jersey X British White x B Blue . So a 5 way cross! Although we are trying to have less cattle , how can I not keep these 2 beauties!?

Yes, I think space should definitely be made for them!

Always keep the pretty ones LOL

I remember years ago we had some collie pups here, they were all sold bar one all black bitch but some of the other pups hadn't been collected including some with rather nice white markings.
someone came to see the pup and was humming and haring about it, said they would rather have had one a the ones with white markings, Mum said "she can't help the coat God gave her" they bought the pup and took her on LOL

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

A good cow is never a bad colour and a bad cow is never a good colour or so the old saying goes

 

[JP1]

A good cow is never a bad colour and a bad cow is never a good colour or so the old saying goes

The sad thing is that's how Riggit Galloway markings got quickly bred out of Galloways who went to black to compete with Aberdeen Angus when breed societies came in in the mid 1800's.
Happily the marking is not mendelian in it's inheritance and is likely 2 gene codes on one side of the DNA allele and survived masked for two centuries in White Galloway cow families.

Several breeders recognise that Riggit Galloways have a better commercial beef conformation than Belties

 

[Pigken]

 

[Series 1]

Hereford x heifer with her Red Aberdeen Angus bull calf, born last night.