Calf color question

[MCT_in_TN]

My baldie heifer recently had her calf. Our bull is a polled hereford. I was expecting the calf to be a baldie, but he is colored like a hereford. My question is will the future calves out of this pair have this color. Was not sure if these 2 will put out the same color every time. This was his 2nd calf. The 1st was a baldie bull calf out of a black angus heifer. We only have 4 cows, 3 black angus and the baldie and the bull so we don't have alot of experience yet in what to expect. Thanks for any input.

 

[retro]

Chances are yes, she will continue to have a Hereford looking calve, But take note of the word CHANCE, there are no guarantees of that. but being 1/2 Hereford herself and bred by a Hereford bull the odds are high that it will look like a Hereford

 

[shortybreeder]

Not sure how you consider a baldy different from colored like a hereford, unless you mean red vs. black. In red vs. black, a red cow to a red bull will always have a red calf. A homozygous black heifer to a red bull will always have a black calf. A heterozygous black heifer (the offspring from a homozygous black cow bred to a red bull) will have a 50% chance of having a black heifer and a 50% chance of having a red heifer. A heterozygous black heifer to a heterozygous black bull has a 75% chance of having a black calf and a 25% chance of having a red calf. Hope that answered your question.

 

[dun]

Chances are yes, she will continue to have a Hereford looking calve, But take note of the word CHANCE, there are no guarantees of that. but being 1/2 Hereford herself and bred by a Hereford bull the odds are high that it will look like a Hereford

That pretty well sums it up. Doubling on the Hereford generally incrreases the likelyhood of a Hereford marked calf.

 

[Andyva]

Chances are yes, she will continue to have a Hereford looking calve, But take note of the word CHANCE, there are no guarantees of that. but being 1/2 Hereford herself and bred by a Hereford bull the odds are high that it will look like a Hereford

That pretty well sums it up. Doubling on the Hereford generally incrreases the likelyhood of a Hereford marked calf.

You can double, triple or quadruple the Hereford, but if the cow is black, you are going to get black calves %50 of the time.

 

[MCT_in_TN]

Thanks for the info. I was wondering about the red vs black color. Seems like the black ones bring a little more around here. We sold his 1st calf, ( black with white face ) last week at the auction. He was 5 months old and 410 lbs. He brought $1275. Very happy with the price. Thanks again.

 

[Black and Good]

Here's same thing. This cow's mamma was a Black White face and bred to a black Angus. As you can see she had a black baldie. Then this cow was bred to a Hereford bull and this is what I got. B&G

 

[HDRider]

Nice looking calf.

 

[ANAZAZI]

Nice looking calf.

Yes not too bad!

 

[AllForage]

Not sure how you consider a baldy different from colored like a hereford, unless you mean red vs. black. In red vs. black, a red cow to a red bull will always have a red calf. A homozygous black heifer to a red bull will always have a black calf. A heterozygous black heifer (the offspring from a homozygous black cow bred to a red bull) will have a 50% chance of having a black heifer and a 50% chance of having a red heifer. A heterozygous black heifer to a heterozygous black bull has a 75% chance of having a black calf and a 25% chance of having a red calf. Hope that answered your question.

A baldy is colored different than a Hereford, although todays modern multipliers are doing their best to make Herefords look like Baldies

 

[ANAZAZI]

Not sure how you consider a baldy different from colored like a hereford, unless you mean red vs. black. In red vs. black, a red cow to a red bull will always have a red calf. A homozygous black heifer to a red bull will always have a black calf. A heterozygous black heifer (the offspring from a homozygous black cow bred to a red bull) will have a 50% chance of having a black heifer and a 50% chance of having a red heifer. A heterozygous black heifer to a heterozygous black bull has a 75% chance of having a black calf and a 25% chance of having a red calf. Hope that answered your question.

A baldy is colored different than a Hereford, although todays modern multipliers are doing their best to make Herefords look like Baldies

 

[Black and Good]

A answer to your OP in the form of pictures. The first picture is the cow's calf last year out of the same Hereford bull as the second picture.


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