Willow Springs
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Anybody have any experience on what colour a person would get with this cross?? Would I get silver or blue roan??
Willow Springs":3edzopno said:Anybody have any experience on what colour a person would get with this cross?? Would I get silver or blue roan??
3waycross":3vdn5jh7 said:We bred an admittedly Hetero blk bull to a White shorthorn cow last year and got a red paint roan calf out of the deal. the year before the same cow and bull produced a blk heifer with a white belly.
I think you could breed a blk bull to a Shorthorn cow and get darned near any color of the rainbow.
Stocker Steve":3ukvteus said:3waycross":3ukvteus said:We bred an admittedly Hetero blk bull to a White shorthorn cow last year and got a red paint roan calf out of the deal. the year before the same cow and bull produced a blk heifer with a white belly.
I think you could breed a blk bull to a Shorthorn cow and get darned near any color of the rainbow.
Same with a red bull on a Shorthorn?
randiliana":3rl62712 said:White Shorthorns are HOMOZYGOUS for the roan gene. The roan gene is an incompletely dominant gene which means that it displays itself differently when Homo and when Hetero.
Essentially breeding a white shorthorn to a black angus will give you some shade of blue roan. Could be almost black, could be almost white, but there should be some roan somewhere.
RR = White
Rr = roan
rr = solid colored
I'm not real sure how the Murray Grey breed got started from a white Shorthorn cow, unless, there was some sort of mutation, because from everything I have ever found about the roan gene says that a white animal (in the Shorthorn breed) is homo for the roan gene, and I have never seen anything that suggests the Shorthorn breed carrying the dilution gene which is what causes the grey in the Murray Grey breed.
cmf1":20o6fbj7 said:I don't presume to have a clue about color genes and don't know if this'll even help, but here goes.
I bred a red roan shorty bull to :
3 black super baldies (Angus x f-1 tigerstripes)
2 f-1 tigerstripes (Hereford x Brahma)
1 whitefaced brindle
1 Hereford type commercial
So far:
1 off of black baldy- solid red w/1 small white spot on belly- female
1 off of f-1 tiger - red baldy bull calf, more white on legs and belly, very little roaning in very few spots
1 off of hereford type commercial- red baldy bull calf, more white on legs and belly, very little roaning in very few spots
The red color on all the calves is deep red like the shorty bull, more mahogany than hereford red.
I'll post the rest as they come.