ABP BREED SPOTLIGHT
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by Leslea Hodgson, Root Prairie Galloways & American Galloway Breeders Association Why did we go with Galloways? Galloways? They are easy keepers. With so much emphasis placed on feed efficiency in a cow, we are confident we chose the right breed. Feed efficiency is not their only attribute but a good place to start. We use the breed in a grass only management system, and can only speak about what we are doing, which is cow-calf to finish, and most of the time selling our beef direct to the consumer. We do a spring-summer calving season and try to keep it timed with the availability of grass in our pastures. If we are timing it right we are finding whitetail fawns hidden in the grass while we are checking for calves. When our young calves are growing they are doing it on the rich milk of a Galloway cow and the best pastures and hay we can offer to them. No creep in our pastures, while purchasing inputs to augment the available forages is an option to better balance the diet, it is added expense. So given how well they do in our system we rarely buy supplements. 48
American Beef Producer
February 2021
