Angus bull-Charlais cows

[berkbig2000]

I have heard that if I use an Angus bull on Char cows I will get rattail calves,anybody?

 

[cow_girl_675]

I have heard that if I use an Angus bull on Char cows I will get rattail calves,anybody?

Sometimes, we have had 4 with rat tails, and but most came out the same color all over.

Go look at my website for the info. on what we use.

 

[berkbig2000]

So cowgirl you have mostly Angus bulls and char cows?What do you mean sometimes you have 4 and what color all over?I'm not sure what rattail means is it just color or do they also have no hair on their tail?

 

[Frankie]

So cowgirl you have mostly Angus bulls and char cows?What do you mean sometimes you have 4 and what color all over?I'm not sure what rattail means is it just color or do they also have no hair on their tail?

From the link:

"The rat-tail syndrome occasionally occurs when certain Continental breeds of cattle are crossed with cattle that have a black hair coat. The condition is characterized by short, curly, malformed, dilute-colored, sometimes sparse hair and a lack of a normal tail switch. Two loci, the extension locus and another unknown locus, are involved in the inheritance of the rat-tail syndrome. For the rat-tail phenotype to be expressed, the animal must have at least one dominant black allele and be heterozygous at the rat-tail locus. This study utilizes 28 rat-tails, 27 black half-sibs, dams, and 3 Simmental-cross sires to localize the unknown locus that causes the rat-tail syndrome....."

http://www.intl-pag.org/11/abstracts/P5j_P581_XI.html