Mike,
In Canada we have Full French that are golden in color and will hold the color of the dam that they are bred to. The top charolais bulls in germany and sweden on test came from Canada and this included at least one red factor bull: HTA Desert Storm. The Germans and Swedes like red charolais type cattle. Many of the breeders of these cattle are in fact native Germans and Danes. North American Charolais breeders often use the best French bulls. However they also are not scared to compete with them in international breeding stock markets. They often enter european performance trials-and win.
Mark
> i'm very doubtful of the fact that
> there are red charolais from
> direct french lineage. maybe some
> percentage breeding is being done
> in canada or the states with
> french charolais and maybe a limo,
> but no way a full french line
> charolais with a red colour will
> be picked up in their herdbook.
> that's not the way things are
> being done in europe.
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