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<blockquote data-quote="Farmgirl" data-source="post: 437503" data-attributes="member: 832"><p>Along with what Dun said, you are more likely to have scurs on a bull calf than a heifer. It takes two scur genes to result in scurs on a heifer but only one scur gene is required for a bull calf to have scurs. I don't know all the details but we saw this with out own cows and calves. We had some bull calves born from horned cows and from homozygous polled and non-scurred bulls. None of the half sibling heifers had scurs. I scratched my head on that for a while until I thought about what was happening. Apparently, our horned cows have a scur gene in addition to the horned gene. </p><p>The one scur gene was enough to result in scurred bull calves.</p><p></p><p>Hope this makes sense.</p><p>Farmgirl</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmgirl, post: 437503, member: 832"] Along with what Dun said, you are more likely to have scurs on a bull calf than a heifer. It takes two scur genes to result in scurs on a heifer but only one scur gene is required for a bull calf to have scurs. I don't know all the details but we saw this with out own cows and calves. We had some bull calves born from horned cows and from homozygous polled and non-scurred bulls. None of the half sibling heifers had scurs. I scratched my head on that for a while until I thought about what was happening. Apparently, our horned cows have a scur gene in addition to the horned gene. The one scur gene was enough to result in scurred bull calves. Hope this makes sense. Farmgirl [/QUOTE]
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