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Here are a couple of recent photographs of our homozygous black charolais bull named Scorch.

Rustler9 some people will be mad at me but, Eclipse bull(s) and Aberdeen female dont have a true black gene they have "wild" gene that gives them there blackish color but if you look close they will have lite brown around their nose, ears and on their backs.The wild gene is "E+" where the true...

Very well said MikeC My customers who use black bulls sell them as out of black char bulls and angus cows. MY customers with red cows use white bulls and all the calves are tans,customers with tan cows use mostly tan bulls to keep the calves tan, uniformity is key like mike says because that is...

MikeC To make a long story short, demand is why we want them black. many commercial breeders with black/bwf cows like char as a terminal cross but many wont use a white bull because of the greys which you get some rat tails, so they wont use a char bull. But with a black bull they will get...

boy i knew this would open up a can of worms. ok here it goes, I'll try to answer all questions but probably will not. 1st , all "purebred" charolais are 31/32, only "fullbloods" are 100% . So yes our blacks came from an angus cow x white char bull = grey heifer 1/2 blood registered, bred to a...

fitz and polledbull are right on use a continental on those black/bwf cows, great mother cows. the black sim/limo/char will give you hybrid vigor and great performance. you can get calving ease with most breeds if you tell the breeder what you are looking for. remember most times you'll give up...

have exportable semen on the only homozygous black Char bull that I know of anywhere. Had 40+ calves from him this spring this spring, all black but 2 greys. Can view some of our blacks on web site http://www.char-maineranching.com. None of this years calves yet, but soon. The ranchers with...

hello everyone, I'm new on here but have enjoyed this site for awhile now. I'll open a can of worms, fritz said that blacks sell well in VA. What about breeding black angus to a red or black Charolais?