About Us

At the Royal Agriculture Show in Stoneleigh 1989 we saw our first Belted Galloway. Right away  we were fascinated by this breed. The arguments for us to breed Belted Galloways were exspecially the beautiful coat marking, their hardyness, good flow of milk and last but not least the beef quality. 

So we immediately got in touch with British breeders and some weeks later we took home our first 3 Belted Galloway heifers from the well-known Bolebec herd. Our first stock bull 'Napoleon', bought in Germany, completed the herd.

Breeding Belted Galloways is our hobby, so the number of our cattle is constant with about 4 cows, one stock bull and their offspring. We sell cattle mostly  for breeding, but those which are not good enough for breeding are consequentely slaughtered.

Herdbook Regulations In Germany

In Germany the registration of pedigree cattle is different to other countries. Every state has its own beef cattle society with a herdbook (11 at the moment) and its own way of registration.

Except in one state all colours of Galloways (solid coloured, belted, white and riggit) are registered together in one herdbook. That means for example that the offspring of a Galloway and a Belted Galloway is not a crossbred like in other countries, in Germany this is a purebred Galloway with full herdbook, called Galloway black, Galloway dun belted or Galloway red riggit, it is registered only under the suspect of the coat markings. The German Society, Bundesverband Deutscher Gallowayzüchter (BDG) told the beef cattle societies to do so, and they pursuaded most of German breeders that this is the right way of breeding Galloway cattle.

For a lot of breeders this is an unlucky situation for they want to breed Galloways, Belted Galloways or other varieties in separate herdbooks like the traditional system in Scotland. They have realized that crossing of all coloured Galloways would be a problem in the future. It wouldn't be funny if the new black Galloway stock bull, whose roots three generations back had been belted or riggit, which you cannot see in the pedigree, will make beautiful coloured offspring.

The only German beef cattle society registering Galloway and Belted Galloway  in strictly separate herdbooks is the
'Verband Schleswig-Holsteiner Fleischrinderzüchter' (FRZ).

Schleswig-Holstein is the last region of purebred Galloway and Belted Galloway cattle in Germany

The result is when you are speaking of Galloway in Germany you could mean two different breeds. On one hand there is the traditional one coloured Galloway (black, dun and red) in international standard. On the other side there is the Galloway that could have all coat markings like one coloured, belted, white or riggit in all colours.

We are lucky to be members of the FRZ, registering our cattle as purebred Belted Galloway. We would never ever do crossbreeding with solid coloured Galloways. We are

Breeders Of Traditional Belted Galloways With International Standard

That is the reason why we are no longer members of the Bundesverband Deutscher Galloway-Züchter. After 12 years of membership we left because of the herdbook politics of this society (all colours of Galloways - one breed - one herdbook), not realizing that the genetic and the type of Galloway and Belted Galloway are quite different.