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Belted Galloway


Belted Galloway
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Copyright: Codge SAMPSON (codge) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 100 W: 13 N: 73] (611)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-05-04
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, UV
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/320 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2008-05-10 3:31
Viewed: 294
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a picture of a Belted Galloway calf taken in Dartmoor national park. They are a common site on the Moors but not so usual else where.
The unique appearance of Belted Galloway cattle inspires many questions about their origins. With black, red or dun color sandwiched about a white middle, they are familiarly known as 'Belties' among breeders of the animals. Though references to 'sheeted' cattle occur in literature and art as early as the 11th Century, the Belted Galloway's first recorded history indicates that they developed during the 16th Century in the former Galloway district of Scotland.

The Belted Galloway is essentially the same in origin and characteristics as the Galloway and only differ by the distininctve white belt that is thought to have been introduced by an infusion of Dutch Lakenvelder blood, probably in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, according to "History of the Belted Galloway Society, Inc.," The Herd Book of the Belted Galloway Society, Inc. (vo1, 1951-1971) by A. Mims Wilkinson, Jr

Historian's writings differ somewhat, but upon three points they generally agree regarding the origin of the Galloway/Belted Galloway. The breed is recognized to be a very ancient one, with obscure origins and its' name derived from the word Gallovid or Gaul. The Gauls were the native inhabitants of the regality known as the Province of Galloway. The cattle of the region were said to be dark, smooth-polled, wavy-haired with undercoats like beaver's fur and for centuries they went unnamed, referred to only as the black cattle of Galloway. From this coastal environment of winds and damp cold, combined with an undulating terrain of moors, granitic hills, heathery mountain ranges and fertile glens emerged the Galloway breed of cattle
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Hello Codge,I can't believe that I have just posted a shot of Longhorn Cattle and right next to mine is your shot of the Galloway!
This little fellow is so black it is quite hard to see his face.I have seen these on Dartmoor,a great place for them to be.
I like your shot with the other cattle in the bg.
Tfs,regards Jean.

Exotic breed of cow. Great shot Codge.
Dennis

Hi Codge,
Nice shot of the old cow, it's a little dark though but a good POV and I like the way it's looking back at you.
I have done a Workshop for you to try and lighten it up a bit.
Regards Andy

Hi Codge,
This is a nice shot of this little fella, Im also glad that someone has at last told me the breed of this cow, we have a large herd of these in the New Forest where I live.
TFS
Jane

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