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Is this a diluter heifer?
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<blockquote data-quote="CKSGelbvieh" data-source="post: 842194" data-attributes="member: 16371"><p></p></blockquote><p></p><p>Gelbvieh do not give you rat tails, that is a Simmental trait to my knowledge, but I have never had one in a Gelbvieh nor have I talked to some that has. They do have the dilluter, but it is not true that most all Gekbvieh carry the dilluter. Several original fullbloods were dilluter free like Floto, Sherman, Hotel, Uni, Hochrein and many, many more. Some of the fullbloods like Lech were homozygous dilluter while others, like Belgrad were heterozygous for the trait.</p><p></p><p>We have nothing but purebred females on our farm and it has been that way for over 15 years and we have raised Gelbvieh starting from a commercial base and working our way up using fullbloods and then purebreds to an all purebred herd. Most of our cows are are 10th generation Gelbvieh since the commercial base and in our herd of 90 cows, we have 50 red cows and only one has the dilluter gene. All of these cows are at a minimum 80% actual Gelbvieh and many are around 85 to 90% Gelbvieh.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="CKSGelbvieh, post: 842194, member: 16371"] [/quote] Gelbvieh do not give you rat tails, that is a Simmental trait to my knowledge, but I have never had one in a Gelbvieh nor have I talked to some that has. They do have the dilluter, but it is not true that most all Gekbvieh carry the dilluter. Several original fullbloods were dilluter free like Floto, Sherman, Hotel, Uni, Hochrein and many, many more. Some of the fullbloods like Lech were homozygous dilluter while others, like Belgrad were heterozygous for the trait. We have nothing but purebred females on our farm and it has been that way for over 15 years and we have raised Gelbvieh starting from a commercial base and working our way up using fullbloods and then purebreds to an all purebred herd. Most of our cows are are 10th generation Gelbvieh since the commercial base and in our herd of 90 cows, we have 50 red cows and only one has the dilluter gene. All of these cows are at a minimum 80% actual Gelbvieh and many are around 85 to 90% Gelbvieh. [/QUOTE]
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