Oreo Cookie Cows

You can see these cows on highway 6 heading towards Tobermory, Ontario.

The “Belted Galloway”, a hardy breed of Scottish Cattle, is distinctive because of the belted, white band evenly distributed around the mid section of the otherwise totally black animal.  Many breeders and cattle fanciers refer to the “belties” as Oreo Cookie Cows. 

Canada saw the first imports of this attractive breed in the early 1950’s, by H. Gordon Green.  Eastern Canadian provinces such as Ontario and Quebec today, have the largest concentration of these animals; Saskatchewan and Alberta have very few breeders, which make Belted Galloways much sought after in the Prairie and Western provinces.