cattlepower
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If you put a Black Angus bull on Red Angus heifer will you get black calves mostly?
cattlepower":gbwkpxbt said:If you put a Black Angus bull on Red Angus heifer will you get black calves mostly?
Busterz":3mcz3e3r said:Another question, do you get any heterosis from crossing a black angus and a red angus?
If the bull is heterozygous black you get get I think it's 25% red calves, if he's homozygous they'll all be black.Busterz":e200ue7s said:Another question, do you get any heterosis from crossing a black angus and a red angus?
dun":8fscj2qz said:If the bull is heterozygous black you get get I think it's 25% red calves, if he's homozygous they'll all be black.Busterz":8fscj2qz said:Another question, do you get any heterosis from crossing a black angus and a red angus?
No heterosis when crossing red and black. If you had a line bred Red Angus and a line bred black Angus there may be some, but no more then crossing 2 line bred lines of Herefords, or 2 lines of line bred angus for that matter.
A couple of years ago I asked the same question of the geneticists at Red Angus and black Angus and that was the answer they gave me.
randiliana":2gwi5ovz said:dun":2gwi5ovz said:If the bull is heterozygous black you get get I think it's 25% red calves, if he's homozygous they'll all be black.Busterz":2gwi5ovz said:Another question, do you get any heterosis from crossing a black angus and a red angus?
No heterosis when crossing red and black. If you had a line bred Red Angus and a line bred black Angus there may be some, but no more then crossing 2 line bred lines of Herefords, or 2 lines of line bred angus for that matter.
A couple of years ago I asked the same question of the geneticists at Red Angus and black Angus and that was the answer they gave me.
Dun, it is 50% red calves out of a hetero bull bred to red cows.
dun":2yx43at3 said:randiliana":2yx43at3 said:Dun, it is 50% red calves out of a hetero bull bred to red cows.
Those percentages always screw me up. My feeble mind gets tricked by the higher math.