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Is this a diluter heifer?
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<blockquote data-quote="CKSGelbvieh" data-source="post: 841951" data-attributes="member: 16371"><p>No, they are saying that a bull can be homozygous black and carry the diluter gene, but that animal itself would be gray. Any black animal does NOT carry the diluter or they would be gray.</p><p></p><p>Homozygous black bred to homozygous black will always result in homozygous black offspring that are actually black assuming both parents were black and not gray.</p><p></p><p>My assumption would be that although the female was a registered Red Angus, she carried the dilluter gene somehow. Either she had some non-Angus parentage somewhere along the way but is still a purebred RA now or she somehow was not what she was supposed to be (ie she was out of a Red Angus dam but sired but a bull of another breed that had the dilluter gene and was thought to be sired by a RA instead). A person can DNA test for the dilluter gene now. If a person really wants to know, I would test the dam and if she is dilluter from, I would assume that this calf was not sired by the Balancer sire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CKSGelbvieh, post: 841951, member: 16371"] No, they are saying that a bull can be homozygous black and carry the diluter gene, but that animal itself would be gray. Any black animal does NOT carry the diluter or they would be gray. Homozygous black bred to homozygous black will always result in homozygous black offspring that are actually black assuming both parents were black and not gray. My assumption would be that although the female was a registered Red Angus, she carried the dilluter gene somehow. Either she had some non-Angus parentage somewhere along the way but is still a purebred RA now or she somehow was not what she was supposed to be (ie she was out of a Red Angus dam but sired but a bull of another breed that had the dilluter gene and was thought to be sired by a RA instead). A person can DNA test for the dilluter gene now. If a person really wants to know, I would test the dam and if she is dilluter from, I would assume that this calf was not sired by the Balancer sire. [/QUOTE]
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