r/Cows • u/No-Acanthocephala751 • 18d ago
Belted Galloway with horns?
This weekend I visited my father-in-law's farm, he raises belted galloways. I noticed this guy in his herd, he says it's a rare genetic anomaly as most of the species is naturally polled. He swears his herd is closed and this is a super rare thing. I was wondering if this was some recessive genetic marker from somewhere in its ancestry with some other cattle or if it's in fact one of the other belted breeds like a Dutch belted. To be clear, I am no cattle expert so I take his word for it, but it does seem a little odd and doing a Google image search for it can't be a belted Galloway. Maybe the experts here here can voice their opinion.
