Wewild":2u9glmkd said:Let's see who bites on this.
ollie?":2i9ae1oq said:I'd say not normal.
VanC":2nuroium said:Looks like she's got some Pinzgauer in her. What breed was the bull?
MikeC":3qe4ayie said:
ollie?":20yv0rxu said:I'd say not normal.
Beefy":1d3dffzz said:Not Uncommon. The white tail comes from your charolais. virtually all of my skunktailed cattle (and i have a lot) are descended from charolais. it seems to happen mostly with charolais x angus.
http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/CowPatterns.html
MikeC":2n3817dv said:Beefy":2n3817dv said:Not Uncommon. The white tail comes from your charolais. virtually all of my skunktailed cattle (and i have a lot) are descended from charolais. it seems to happen mostly with charolais x angus.
http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/CowPatterns.html
It still has to have something to do with the red color. I have bred several Char bulls to Black Brangus cows with no color anomalies like this. They are always grey, black, tan, or white with nothing but solid colors throughout.
Beefy":1so3e25c said:MikeC":1so3e25c said:Beefy":1so3e25c said:Not Uncommon. The white tail comes from your charolais. virtually all of my skunktailed cattle (and i have a lot) are descended from charolais. it seems to happen mostly with charolais x angus.
http://homepage.usask.ca/~schmutz/CowPatterns.html
It still has to have something to do with the red color. I have bred several Char bulls to Black Brangus cows with no color anomalies like this. They are always grey, black, tan, or white with nothing but solid colors throughout.
Its your particular cow! she has the genes. for what it worth i've never got a skunktail using a charolais bull (unless the cow had a skunktail to begin with), only from Charolais cows crossed with angus bulls. and its a pretty persistant gene.