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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1831484" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>If you read the "mission" of the founders of the Black Hereford on the BH website, they were developed first to increase the chances of a black baldy when you use them instead of reds. Even heterozygous ones. People who use grade, commercial, "Angus" bulls often have one that is heterozygous, When bred to red Hereford cows, 50% of the calves will be red baldies. Even more common, so many people have commercial "angus" cows that are heterozygous, When bred to red Hereford bull, 50% of their calves can be red baldies. Change the Herford bull or cows either one to BH, and even if it is hetero, only 25% of the calves could be red baldies. Of course, using a homozygous bull or cow, you will get 100% black baldies. Secondary reason given to use BH, are that the Angus blood cures a lot of the problems associated with Hereford. And in the foundation 5/8ths Herf 3/8ths Angus BHs, fertility is improved over red Herefords. Now days, though, BHs are, or can be, "pure" Hereford in the same sense that a cow that is 7/8ths Simm is called a purebred, or a cow that is 15/16ths Charolais is called a pure bred. It is to the detriment of the Hereford association that they choose not to recognize the BH. No problem, they just created their own registry like red Angus breeders in America had to do. To me, doing it the "breed up" way would have been the smart thing to do. The reason the powers that be in the Hereford Association didn't want to do that, is that they realize there eventually wouldn't be any red Herefords left, that weren't sired by a hetero Black Hereford, or out of a Hetero BH cow. I like it that while BH allows you to breed to registered, polled red Herefords, if the calf comes out red, it can NOT be registered BH. And the Hereford Association won't let you register it either, even if the sire and dam were both BH. If they are both hetero and throw a red calf it can not be registered BH either. Both of these stances just speeds up the process of producing more BHs. </p><p>Another reason BHs are growing so popular, is the interest in Red Angus x Black Hereford black baldies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1831484, member: 40587"] If you read the "mission" of the founders of the Black Hereford on the BH website, they were developed first to increase the chances of a black baldy when you use them instead of reds. Even heterozygous ones. People who use grade, commercial, "Angus" bulls often have one that is heterozygous, When bred to red Hereford cows, 50% of the calves will be red baldies. Even more common, so many people have commercial "angus" cows that are heterozygous, When bred to red Hereford bull, 50% of their calves can be red baldies. Change the Herford bull or cows either one to BH, and even if it is hetero, only 25% of the calves could be red baldies. Of course, using a homozygous bull or cow, you will get 100% black baldies. Secondary reason given to use BH, are that the Angus blood cures a lot of the problems associated with Hereford. And in the foundation 5/8ths Herf 3/8ths Angus BHs, fertility is improved over red Herefords. Now days, though, BHs are, or can be, "pure" Hereford in the same sense that a cow that is 7/8ths Simm is called a purebred, or a cow that is 15/16ths Charolais is called a pure bred. It is to the detriment of the Hereford association that they choose not to recognize the BH. No problem, they just created their own registry like red Angus breeders in America had to do. To me, doing it the "breed up" way would have been the smart thing to do. The reason the powers that be in the Hereford Association didn't want to do that, is that they realize there eventually wouldn't be any red Herefords left, that weren't sired by a hetero Black Hereford, or out of a Hetero BH cow. I like it that while BH allows you to breed to registered, polled red Herefords, if the calf comes out red, it can NOT be registered BH. And the Hereford Association won't let you register it either, even if the sire and dam were both BH. If they are both hetero and throw a red calf it can not be registered BH either. Both of these stances just speeds up the process of producing more BHs. Another reason BHs are growing so popular, is the interest in Red Angus x Black Hereford black baldies. [/QUOTE]
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