BK9954":1bemqoti said:good deal, thanks. first calf born in my herd. I was thinking maybe she had some brown genetics in her bloodline. I am wanting to keep this one.
It's still the luck of the draw, statistically that works out but not in real life. Granny was a registered black Angus (red carrier) She was bred to only red bulls as long as we had her. Her sixth calf was red the 5 following that were all black. I about had a heart attack when I saw that red calf.jcarkie":26hhuoqb said:If both parents have a red gene one out of four calves will be red. Thus the red Angus was born
Didn't know she was a red carrier?dun":1h6ohhfr said:It's still the luck of the draw, statistically that works out but not in real life. Granny was a registered black Angus (red carrier) She was bred to only red bulls as long as we had her. Her sixth calf was red the 5 following that were all black. I about had a heart attack when I saw that red calf.jcarkie":1h6ohhfr said:If both parents have a red gene one out of four calves will be red. Thus the red Angus was born
Not till the red calf popped out. As long as we had her she was always bred to red and always had blacks. That's why it is claimed "there are lies, damed lies and statistics" and that pretty accuratefrieghttrain":uqhddtyq said:Didn't know she was a red carrier?dun":uqhddtyq said:It's still the luck of the draw, statistically that works out but not in real life. Granny was a registered black Angus (red carrier) She was bred to only red bulls as long as we had her. Her sixth calf was red the 5 following that were all black. I about had a heart attack when I saw that red calf.jcarkie":uqhddtyq said:If both parents have a red gene one out of four calves will be red. Thus the red Angus was born
You bred her to a milking Simmental why?dun":1w9nhze0 said:As an aside, although Granny ever only threw one red calf, her black daughters and grandaughters (all sired by either Red Angus/Hereford/Fleckvieh) have never had a black calf. They're always bred to red.
The Flek we used is/was a great maternal bull, traditional(sort of marked) with the right framefrieghttrain":1yrlmofq said:You bred her to a milking Simmental why?dun":1yrlmofq said:As an aside, although Granny ever only threw one red calf, her black daughters and grandaughters (all sired by either Red Angus/Hereford/Fleckvieh) have never had a black calf. They're always bred to red.