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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1595257" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>BOTH parents are carrying the red gene. Red gene is a recessive gene. It takes both genes to express the color red. The RED CALF has NO black genes in him. He had to inherit red from mom & red from dad.</p><p>Any calf that came out of your Red Angus cow carries 1 red gene. Bred to a homozygous black bull (2 black genes), all her and her daughters' offspring will be black in color. But, bred to your heterozygous black bull (1 red - 1 black gene), you have a 25% chance of them being red out of the hetero black daughters and 50% chance of them being red out of the red cow.</p><p>Clear as mud???</p><p>All it takes is ONE black gene from either parent for the calf to be BLACK in color, because black is dominant over red.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1595257, member: 968"] BOTH parents are carrying the red gene. Red gene is a recessive gene. It takes both genes to express the color red. The RED CALF has NO black genes in him. He had to inherit red from mom & red from dad. Any calf that came out of your Red Angus cow carries 1 red gene. Bred to a homozygous black bull (2 black genes), all her and her daughters' offspring will be black in color. But, bred to your heterozygous black bull (1 red - 1 black gene), you have a 25% chance of them being red out of the hetero black daughters and 50% chance of them being red out of the red cow. Clear as mud??? All it takes is ONE black gene from either parent for the calf to be BLACK in color, because black is dominant over red. [/QUOTE]
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