If anyone has the time....

[nathanm]

if anyone has the to think 'bout it and do the figgerin, if you took a polled hereford with heterozygous horned and crossed it with a homozygous horned breed such as lets say a TX longhorn, will it be a 50% chance of coming out horned. I'd ask my animal science teacher, but I'm on Spring Break. Seein's how the polled is dominate you'd almost always end up with a polled wouldn't you? (Or at least 50% of the time?)

Thanks

(reason i ask is because, i was thinkin of crossin one of our herefords with a Texas Longhorn, but i may have to wait to see if any heterozygous horned heifers come 'round)

 

[dun]

mathematically yes.

dun

 

[KNERSIE]

mathematically yes.

dun

mathematically being the operative word...

 

[nathanm]

k well i was never good at math, but looks like i'm coming 'round. :roll: but anyway, thanks for clarifying the mathmatics on that. Either of you ever had expierence with somethin like this?

 

[KNERSIE]

I've used a heterozygous polled hereford bull on horned herefordX cows in the past. Its probably safer to say you'll get some horns and some polled and if you continue long enough you'll end up close to 50%