edde_1":34zco7dw said:
Why are you from the u.s. so perverse about black cattle?
Every breed over there has gone black? And i can´t figure out why. Black simms, black chars, black limousin, etc.
If a cow in sweden has a color that isn´t the traditional color of the breed she will be called a mix and can´t be registred.
So give me good reasons why black is better?
And i dont buy that you call black simms, chars, etc. pure and full blood. Thats just crazy, they are just more or less angus!
edde_1 - This is a question which has been debated on these posts several times, and it is a good subject for discussion. However, most of the discussions concerning Black-hided cattle have been proposed in a little more congenial manner than yours seems to effect.
The Registration requirements of most of the breeds being registered in the United States are rather specific, and the primary purposes of which are to ascertain that the genetic inheritance factors, traits and characteristics remain pure for that particular breed. There is no question that there has been cross breeding done for the purposes of improvements of Phenotype and Genotype of the various breeds which have been imported to the US in the last 40 - 50 years, but the Rules of Registration of the different breeds regulate the percentages which can be included in the Registry's. The Homozygosity of certain characteristics - Black Hide color being one of them along with polledness, dictates certain phenotypic and genotypic characteristics. (Review Gregor Johann Mendel's "Laws of Inheritance" which include the Four Principles of Hereditary Phenomena).
The black hide color is a result of breeding cattle with the Dominant Gene of black hide to other cattle with a recessive gene for hide color, and the quality of the black-hided cattle several years ago carried traits which were important to cattle producers insofar as the financial returns they provided when they were marketed. Therefore, being intelligent and economically-minded, they naturally gravitated toward the cattle which made them a profit. Black hided cattle did that. And the Packers and Order buyers soon realized that Black hides usually brought more money on the market. Being brilliant Americans, they soon made it the "trend" to market Black-hided cattle.
Your use of the word "Perverse" is unfortunate inasmuch as the definition of "Perverse" is "Deviating from what is considered right or good; wrong, improper, etc. or corrupt, wicked, etc.; perverted." Black-hided cattle, of course, do NOT come under the purview of "Perverse", therefore your question AND the rather extensive answer is consequently - moot.
I do hope, however, that this satisfies your 'need to know' why black is better!
. . . .and it isn't "Just crazy" as you so inappropriately phrased your opinion.
DOC HARRIS