How color works in cattle

[Jul]

 

[Travlr]

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This calf is out of your Charolais bull unless there's a shadow on the calf making it look blue in the back...

If it's a shadow then it's probably the Shorthorn bull.

 

[Jul]

Yes it's a shadow , will take a new picture tonight

 

[NIdahoShorthorns]

This calf is out of your Charolais bull unless there's a shadow on the calf making it look blue in the back...

If it's a shadow then it's probably the Shorthorn bull.

I would say the red flecking on the ear is the tale tail sign it's double white shorthorn.

 

[Jul]

 

[Jul]

 

[Travlr]

I would say the red flecking on the ear is the tale tail sign it's double white shorthorn.

Yup, that blue color was a shadow. I didn't see the color on the ear. Good eye...

 

[crossbreed]

Nice video thank you. Makes more sense for what I'm seeing with our cows now. So far what we have
Red Gelbvieh on black brangus = 100% black calves
Red Gelbvieh on smokey Char/brangus cross = 100% red calves
Red Gelbvieh on grey brahma = red calves
Of course Red Gelbvieh on Red Gelbvieh is red.

Now waiting to see if the heifers retained out of the black cows will produce any red calves.

 

[backhoeboogie]

I have a smoke cow that was bred to a black lowline. Char white calf on the first run with that bull, solid black on the second calf. The first calf is really puzzling.

 

[Warren Allison]

Nice video thank you. Makes more sense for what I'm seeing with our cows now. So far what we have
Red Gelbvieh on black brangus = 100% black calves
Red Gelbvieh on smokey Char/brangus cross = 100% red calves
Red Gelbvieh on grey brahma = red calves
Of course Red Gelbvieh on Red Gelbvieh is red.

Now waiting to see if the heifers retained out of the black cows will produce any red calves.

If those black cows are hetero for black, they would have a 50% chance at red calves. Those smokies you have should have 1 copy of the dilute gene and 1 copy of the black, so 50% chance they could have a black calf. I don't now that I have ever seen a Gelbvieh X Brahma. Sounds interesting, though. Do you have any pics of one?

 

[Travlr]

I don't now that I have ever seen a Gelbvieh X Brahma.

Southern Balancer

 

[AldacoCattle]

I want to say this cow has some British White to her and I was surprised when this calf came out of a black angus bull… lol

 

[NIdahoShorthorns]

If your Angus bull is heterozygous black, so blackXred, I think the cows white gene would dominate the bulls red gene.

 

[Randi]

The cow's colour pattern is a dominant pattern. Known I believe as the Colour Sided Pattern.