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<blockquote data-quote="Rosielou" data-source="post: 1179979" data-attributes="member: 17488"><p>Do you have a picture of the calf? I'm <strong>no</strong> expert by any means, but like bird dog said, the average case of rat-tail is weird curly hair and pretty much no switch at all. There are different levels of the defect, but again it is possible for a calf to just have a deformed tail because of other reasons. Usually rat-tail is caused by the diluter gene in breeds like older style simmental, charolais crosses and some holstein crosses. If you knew the breeding of the calf it would give a few clues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rosielou, post: 1179979, member: 17488"] Do you have a picture of the calf? I'm [b]no[/b] expert by any means, but like bird dog said, the average case of rat-tail is weird curly hair and pretty much no switch at all. There are different levels of the defect, but again it is possible for a calf to just have a deformed tail because of other reasons. Usually rat-tail is caused by the diluter gene in breeds like older style simmental, charolais crosses and some holstein crosses. If you knew the breeding of the calf it would give a few clues. [/QUOTE]
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