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This is Lass 7L, a 5yr old purebred Galloway cow. Raising a great heifer calf this year.
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This is Goodie 1G, a 9yr old purebred Galloway as well. She has a bull calf on her right now that's almost as tall as she is. She's real quiet, I love her to death.
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This is one of our commercial cows. Jessie is 3/4 Angus X 1/4 Tarentaise. She's the thickest, easiest fleshing cow on the place, and stays that way year round. She is our standard for a top female, commercial or purebred, when it comes to production, temperament and structure.
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And this is my pride and joy. Navigator 28N was rkaiser's herd bull. He raised him, and I wanted him from the first time I saw him. He wouldn't sell then, so I tried to buy his mother, he wouldn't sell her either. It took 2 years of prodding, but he finally let him go to a better home. :P IMO, he's the best Galloway bull I've seen anywhere. Great feet and legs, my kids have ridden him, and he stamps all his calves with his thickness and flesh.
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This is Lass 7L, a 5yr old purebred Galloway cow. Raising a great heifer calf this year.

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This is Goodie 1G, a 9yr old purebred Galloway as well. She has a bull calf on her right now that's almost as tall as she is. She's real quiet, I love her to death.

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This is one of our commercial cows. Jessie is 3/4 Angus X 1/4 Tarentaise. She's the thickest, easiest fleshing cow on the place, and stays that way year round. She is our standard for a top female, commercial or purebred, when it comes to production, temperament and structure.
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And this is my pride and joy. Navigator 28N was rkaiser's herd bull. He raised him, and I wanted him from the first time I saw him. He wouldn't sell then, so I tried to buy his mother, he wouldn't sell her either. It took 2 years of prodding, but he finally let him go to a better home. :P IMO, he's the best Galloway bull I've seen anywhere. Great feet and legs, my kids have ridden him, and he stamps all his calves with his thickness and flesh.

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Hope I have everything matched up right Pure....

Gotta go to the hospital now... Son coughed and spit up and inhaled, need to go pick him and his mom up... Actually, first I need to wake up my daughter and than we need to go... Have a good night all.
 
There are tons of nice looking bulls that are too big or too small for me.

Tons of nice looking bulls that I can't use because of perceived values of those breeds they come from, which is entirely too bad.

A number of useful breeds are simply "irrelavent" simply since they didn't have a big enough budget to compete.

Some breeds are forgiven for their failures, others are not.

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The bull was 3+ change when that pic was taken in August, just after he'd been turned out with the cows, so he's coming 4 now. I'd guess his frame score at a 4, and he weighs about 2100lbs right now. I'll post some more pics when I get a chance that show his thickness and mass.
 
That's Galloway hair. They have a thick wooly undercoat, then the longer guardhairs. Not as long as a Highland, but good enough underwear for our winters. :lol: Crossed with our commercial cows, it takes a bit of the hair off of 'em, but not much. The only ones that really knock the hair off are the slicker haired purebred Angus we have left, or some of the 1/2 Tarentaise cows.
 
Galloway/Hereford baldies with Black Bulls back on them looks good to me. Those baldies could winter on snowballs and no promises lol. I fed out some Char/Galloway cattle from Ballantyne's those were good cattle too.
 
That is one heck of a ncie looking bull Pure... Nice and solid looking critter even if he is sporting the galloway afro... Always really liked that breed just have never taken that route for whatever reason.. I would worry about them in the heat of the summer but there are folks near here who raise them who don't seem to have a problem so my concerns are probably not really warrented..

I think NR is dead on though, Hereford/Galloway baldie with a good growthy black bull on them might be something specia.. Especially if the sire of cows is a bull like this one...

Night went fine except the lack of sleep. Just a bit of panic when the boy sounded like he was having a eal hard time breathing after the throw up/coup up incident. Sounded like he had inhaled a bunch of the spit up and was having a heck of a crying fit..Had the ambulance out here and by the time they got here he was a lot better of course but took him in for a check up anyways (1am). Croop, which is what we guessed before he even left the house. I had to kill 30 minutes before following them to the hospital because the car had to warm up and they asked me too and I thought I would let my daughter sleep. Got home at about 3:30 or so and hit the road again this morning at 6:30... I am a bit tiredl :lol: :lol: but at least Ewen is okay.
 
Great to hear, IL.

As for the Smurfs contaminating my Galloway genepool :P , I do agree that it 'd make a great commercial cow. Rkaiser had some a couple years back, as well as some 1/2 Welsh X 1/2 Hereford cows. They were great females. With the right bull, I'd try it.
 
IL Rancher said:
Hope I have everything matched up right Pure....

Gotta go to the hospital now... Son coughed and spit up and inhaled, need to go pick him and his mom up... Actually, first I need to wake up my daughter and than we need to go... Have a good night all.
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Hope all is okay with the boy, IlRancher!!!! Having sick young uns is the scariest thing!! They can go sour so quickly and have a tendency not to complain too much!! Prayers are heading your way!!
 

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