Caustic Burno
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Being he is solid color the dam has a recessive gene for white face I own several. The calf has a red tint look I bet it will darken up
Dogs and Cows":2hipnom9 said:Caustic Burno":2hipnom9 said:Being he is solid color the dam has a recessive gene for white face I own several. The calf has a red tint look I bet it will darken up
SPH":3f22qfr2 said:If she truly is purebred Hereford which you really have no way of knowing without having papers on her then there is a small possibility that she could be carrying the diluter gene which can result in a grey color when mating with a black animal. That's just snowballing another possibility but the diluter gene is technically a breed impurity too. There probably is a better chance that she is not a purebred Hereford than there is she is purebred and carrying the diluter.
You have a nice healthy calf out of heifer that you say is doing a good job so that's a win no matter how you look at it.
What do you think is in her woodpile?Bigfoot":1b73h0x1 said:I don't believe that dam is all hereford.
I have a problem with the goggle eyes and lack of feather neck.Bigfoot":2d0qxyk4 said:I don't believe that dam is all hereford.
greybeard":27d28hk0 said:What do you think is in her woodpile?Bigfoot":27d28hk0 said:I don't believe that dam is all hereford.
Angus x Hereford x red angus a brockled face is much more common than a solid face.midTN_Brangusman":12a4qox1 said:I also don't think she is purebred. Probably Hereford red angus cross or something else.
Hasn't Hereford markings but made like an angus.
Me too!Bigfoot":hpocx910 said:I don't believe that dam is all hereford.
Her bloodlines could run back to the green papered cows.dun":scf31ygk said:Me too!Bigfoot":scf31ygk said:I don't believe that dam is all hereford.
Which is why I think she has something else in there. Maybe back generations, but something over came the homozygous white face gene.Caustic Burno":3iqv6o1i said:Her bloodlines could run back to the green papered cows.dun":3iqv6o1i said:Me too!Bigfoot":3iqv6o1i said:I don't believe that dam is all hereford.
That was before DNA testing there was a lot of hanky panky going on in the breed associations in those days.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987 ... bull-herds