Chrome

[cow pollinater]

How much chrome would a chrome cow chrome if a chrome cow could throw chrome?

I have a chance to pick up a few blue frosty heifers this spring that are natives and the Angus half was chosen and installed by me.
I'm not very familiar with the roan gene and I'm doubting myself on what I think I know. How many generations would it take me to get the chrome off? I can eat a few steers and keep heifers but I don't want ANY roan calves going to the sale.

 

[ohiosteve]

I have no idea, but I think you should pick 'em up and post some pictures on here. My favorite color is chrome.

 

[piedmontese]

I seen a blue roan 3x8 sell for $1650 today at the sale. Weighed 1200.

 

[randiliana]

50/50 chance that they will throw roan. Roan is dominant, and a 'Roan' cow is heterozygous for the roan gene. So a 50% chance that she would throw you a roan calf.

It really only takes 1 generation to breed the roan out, if she has a solid coloured calf then it won't throw roan. But, beware, roan ranges from almost white to almost solid, and by almost solid, I mean a few hairs of white on the tail, face, belly or legs...

 

[cow pollinater]

50/50 chance that they will throw roan. Roan is dominant, and a 'Roan' cow is heterozygous for the roan gene. So a 50% chance that she would throw you a roan calf.

It really only takes 1 generation to breed the roan out, if she has a solid coloured calf then it won't throw roan. But, beware, roan ranges from almost white to almost solid, and by almost solid, I mean a few hairs of white on the tail, face, belly or legs...

Thank you. I was hoping you'd be hanging around on here today. That's what I was thinking as well but I've gotten to where I don't trust a lot of stuff that I used to know but haven't thought about in a while.

 

[randiliana]

No problem, glad to help...

 

[shortybreeder]

I agree with above, it only takes 1 generation to get rid of the roan gene, but sometimes the roan is so well hidden that it can travel for generations without anybody noticing it. I purchased a heifer at a state shorthorn sale last year who was solid red for 3 generations, and she was solid red (small white spot on the belly, considered white marking not roan) but when I went to clip her on show day, her face was covered with little white hairs. We didn't see them until we shaved off all the long red hairs, and her breeder was shocked when he saw her at the state fair with the roan hairs on her face. It has been 6 months of winter since then, and the red hairs have grown back and hidden all the white hairs. It's interesting how she is a carrier of it, yet you wouldn't know it unless you shaved her down to 1/16 of an inch.

 

[randiliana]

I've also seen them when the only roaning will be in the hollow of the hocks or on the tail.

 

[OakCreekRanch]

So...I have this red Angus x cow here have roan face, does that means she is most likely throw a roan calf?

 

[randiliana]

Its possible.. What's she crossed with?

 

[OakCreekRanch]

Its possible.. What's she crossed with?

She came in a group with some commercial red angus cows but I did saw some roan shorthorns at same place I got mine from.

 

[randiliana]

Well, there's a 50/50 chance she'll throw a roan calf

 

[OakCreekRanch]

Well, there's a 50/50 chance she'll throw a roan calf

Dang! Well thank you!

 

[shortybreeder]

Well, there's a 50/50 chance she'll throw a roan calf

Dang! Well thank you!

but if she doesn't have a lot of roan, it may be just a small amount, not like the super showy bulls that are 80% white.

 

[randiliana]

That is true.

 

[Jake]

Well, there's a 50/50 chance she'll throw a roan calf

Dang! Well thank you!

but if she doesn't have a lot of roan, it may be just a small amount, not like the super showy bulls that are 80% white.

We have one that has a little roan but not very much. Threw a head to toe blue calf one year. Not something to really be scared of but that roan gene is funky.

 

[cow pollinater]

Not something to really be scared of ...

Unless you're looking at buying thirty of them for momma's in an area where one roan calf gets the whole load docked. :lol: Now you know why I'm refreshing my memory. I can only eat so many steers a year.