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The Belted Galloway is a traditional Scottish breed of beef cattle. It derives from the Galloway stock of the Galloway region of south-western Scotland, and was established as a separate breed in 1921. It is adapted to living on the poor upland pastures and windswept moorlands of the region.
A belted cow (nicknamed beltie or Oreo cow) may refer to: Belted Galloway from Scotland; Dutch Belted (Lakenvelder) This page was last edited on 7 ...
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The Dutch Belted or Dutch Belt is an American breed of dairy cattle. It derives from the Lakenvelder of Germany and the Netherlands, of which examples were imported to the United States from 1838. [ 4 ] : 171 [ 5 ] : 96 [ 6 ] It became an important dairy breed in the early twentieth century, but could not compete with the Holstein-Friesian .
The Galloway was introduced in Canada in 1853, first registered in 1872, and the first Galloway registry was introduced in the United States in 1882. In 1911, 35 000 cattle were registered in the American Galloway Herd Book which was first created in 1882. The British Galloway Society was founded in 1908.
[7]: 176 It is however supported by molecular genetic studies, which have shown that the Gurtenvieh, the Lakenvelder and the Belted Galloway all carry the same candidate gene for the belted phenotype. [4]: 224 [8]: 304 Cattle with this characteristic are shown in Dutch paintings from the seventeenth century.
Over 1000 breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses. [1]Cattle breeds fall into two main types, which are regarded as either two closely related species, or two subspecies of one species.