Belted Galloway Cattle Are One Cattle Breed I’m Considering

Reader Contribution by Caleb Regan and Managing Editor
Published on March 3, 2010
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I’m at an exciting point in my life, and I know it. I’m engaged to the love of my life, doing what I love, and preparing to find my place in the country. Reading about Belted Galloway cattle feeds right into that. 

After living in the country for my whole life, I delved into city living when I moved off to college. City living – to some, Lawrence, Kansas, population 80,000 may not be a city, but to me it is – was new, fun and in the end, rewarding. I studied abroad in Australia, near Sidney. I met my future wife bartending in a bar that I will never forget. By and large, college was great. But I’m ready for city living to be a chapter of my life that I’ve closed the book on. 

My excitement now is based on finding my place back out where the pavement ends. Gwen’s fine with country living, as long as she is within an hour of a city. Works for me, as in northeastern Kansas it’s pretty easy to reach Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City in an hour from most rural areas.

And as I look for properties – the spot where I will raise a family – livestock is always on my mind. I have grand plans, all in my head, about what I want to raise and how I want to live. I talk about it at home all the time. I read breed guides to livestock a lot (Storey’s is great). It consumes me, and I love it. 

In researching, one breed of cattle that strikes me, and appearance is part of it, is the Belted Galloway, a heritage breed of cattle that is hardy and, as we said in GRIT’s Field Guide to Heritage Cattle, well known for excellent performance on pasture and flavorful beef; perfect. Helen Burkett, an ad account executive, told me she misses raising them for their disposition, their gentle and friendly personality.

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