Collected my new Belted Galloway Bull - pic

[Symphony]

Cows were in the first picture and that is what I ment, sorry.

 

[redtailgal]

Nice! Geesh, I go away for a few days and you rack it up, dont you?

I like them both, but I'll admit to liking a solid color better than a belt......dont shoot me!

Love the backline and shoulders on lil Zebbadee. Pretty little fellow and I'm sure he'll throw you some nice babies.

We've decided on a new bull out of our herd. He is a lil older than he is in the following pic, will try to get some updated pics soon. He's nice, got a back line (a lil curved in the pic but it's straight when he doesnt stand like a dork) and looked like a bull from the day he was born. He's got a pretty good attitude, despite being in the pasture with two other bulls his age (weaned 2 months ago, so I believe that puts him at around 8 months now). Still a lil spooky around people, but a little handling will get him right. He is a talker like his daddy and is already bellering for the girls.........much to my neighbors displeasure, lol. Havent named him yet. Strictly grassfed so far.

 

[Bossroo]

Nice! Geesh, I go away for a few days and you rack it up, dont you?

I like them both, but I'll admit to liking a solid color better than a belt......dont shoot me!

Love the backline and shoulders on lil Zebbadee. Pretty little fellow and I'm sure he'll throw you some nice babies.

We've decided on a new bull out of our herd. He is a lil older than he is in the following pic, will try to get some updated pics soon. He's nice, got a back line (a lil curved in the pic but it's straight when he doesnt stand like a dork) and looked like a bull from the day he was born. He's got a pretty good attitude, despite being in the pasture with two other bulls his age (weaned 2 months ago, so I believe that puts him at around 8 months now). Still a lil spooky around people, but a little handling will get him right. He is a talker like his daddy and is already bellering for the girls.........much to my neighbors displeasure, lol. Havent named him yet. Strictly grassfed so far.

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Could you move that tree branch just a little bit so that we all could see this bull calf's hind quarter ?

 

[redtailgal]

lol, I knew I'd catch some flack for that. I TOLD him to step forward, but nooooooo. He is bullheaded!

He's got an "OK' rear end. His tail is set a little higher than I like, but we arent breeding showstock, and a higher tail wont effect a steak much. He does have a meaty butt, though, lol.

I tried to get some pics this morning, but he hid behind the trees. Thinking of naming him "Peek-a-Boo"

lol, Royd got me.......I hate he thought of the name Zebbadee instead of me! It's a cool name, lol.

Next year, Royd and I will have to compare calves from the new bulls!

 

[Bossroo]

The high tail set won't effect a steak... however it will effect any resulting female offspring that have the same trait. The tilted tail set equates to a tipped vagina which will accumulate urine at the cervix. Then, when she comes into heat, this urine and any bacteria will enter the uterus and just may not be too beneficial to her reproductive life. I would enjoy the steak !

 

[redtailgal]

Our cows have a good tail set thus helping to balance it out, and his tail is only slightly higher than I like........its really not high enough to cause a problem.

Thanks for the heads up though!

 

[redtailgal]

Royd, I meant to ask you.......

Do you prefer the duns over the blacks? And do you have more problems with external parasites on the duns?

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Cows were in the first picture,...durrr.

What was the "durrr" for?? I just thought you were referring to the bulls, since that's what the topic was about, not the cows in the first pic. So so sorry for the mistake... :/

 

[Royd Wood]

Royd, I meant to ask you.......

Do you prefer the duns over the blacks? And do you have more problems with external parasites on the duns?

I like all Galloways but black Galloways top my personal list along with my red one. The duns and Belts always seem to have more fly issues but other than that its about the same.

Like your bull calf - have you chopped that tree down for bossroo yet

I will get some better pics and start a bull thread. I've 3 more bull calves which in any other year would be a debate wether to steer them or not but this year zebbadee has left them standing.

 

[Genipher]

The word cow came via Anglo-Saxon cū (plural cȳ), from Common Indo-European gʷōus (genitive gʷowes) = "a bovine animal", compare Persian Gv, Sanskrit go, Welsh buwch. The genitive plural of "cū" is "cȳna", which gave the now archaic English plural, and Scots plural, of "kine".--Wikipedia

So, technically a bull is a type of cow or cattle or kine, right??