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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1567088" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Nice general primer here: Genetics of Coat Color in Cattle: http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/colors.html</p><p></p><p>More involved series here, covering almost ever conceivable wrinkle: Coat Color of TX LHs: http://doublehelixranch.com/color.html</p><p></p><p>Used to be a nice, in-depth treatise on the subject at a braunvieh.com site that's no longer in existence.</p><p></p><p>Used several 'yellow & white' Simmental sires back in the 1980s, and bought in one little yellow lineback cow(presumably a Charolais cross of some sort), back in 86... Simmental color dilution gene and the Charolais color inhibitor genes are hard to breed out... still getting colors ranging from white to silver to gray to charcoal to brown to mousy gray - whether sired by black or red bulls - out of those diluted brown/gray cows... though the two 'white' cows typically throw either a white/silver calf or an undiluted red or black, depending upon what they're bred to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1567088, member: 12607"] Nice general primer here: Genetics of Coat Color in Cattle: http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/colors.html More involved series here, covering almost ever conceivable wrinkle: Coat Color of TX LHs: http://doublehelixranch.com/color.html Used to be a nice, in-depth treatise on the subject at a braunvieh.com site that's no longer in existence. Used several 'yellow & white' Simmental sires back in the 1980s, and bought in one little yellow lineback cow(presumably a Charolais cross of some sort), back in 86... Simmental color dilution gene and the Charolais color inhibitor genes are hard to breed out... still getting colors ranging from white to silver to gray to charcoal to brown to mousy gray - whether sired by black or red bulls - out of those diluted brown/gray cows... though the two 'white' cows typically throw either a white/silver calf or an undiluted red or black, depending upon what they're bred to. [/QUOTE]
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