Black Charolais?

[alacowman1]

99.5% No rat tails. I usually associate rat tails with Smokey Simmentals.

I got rat tails out of my Simbrah cows by angus Bulls. Atleast two a year,some with short curly hair coats..they grew off great here on moma..but they dont do well on the cold feedlots..and you paid the price..

 

[Warren Allison]

never heard of a black Charolais but I would think it wouldn't have a lot of Charolais in it to be truly black in color. Charolais carry 2 genes for dilution so that is why when you breed a Charolais and black Angus you get a smokey color similar to Murray Grey. So if you would have to then breed that F1 to a homozygous black to maybe not have a dilution factor. Charolais are red but because they carry 2 dominant dilution genes it removes all the pigment. At minimum you would have to have an F2 or F3 to start not having a dilution coloration but then you have diluted the Charolais so much its not really a Charolais but more Angus... so idk

No different than the "black simmental", "black Gelbiev", ": black Limosine", etc. They are as much as 93.75% Angus.

 

[SBMF 2015]

No different than the "black simmental", "black Gelbiev", ": black Limosine", etc. They are as much as 93.75% Angus.

I have always said 45 years ago Angus cows didn't weigh 1,800 and Simmentals weren't black.

 

[Cloudbreak Farms]

How did they come up with a black Charolais? Wouldn't it have to have some kind of angus in the wood shed. With that being said has anyone used one they have me intrigued

It's becoming farcical this obsession with black cattle isn't it.