Red Charolais

[moses388]

Somewhere in this line I thought I read that the red color is a non-dilute?

No. Red will dilute to peach / orange. Smokey is a diluted black. White is from 2 dilute genes.

 

[Ky hills]

This article is from 1995 and the bull in question is a bull that is in many red factored Charolais cattle today.
I remember the controversy.
https://www.producer.com/news/red-charolais-nets-top-price-ineligible-for-registration-in-us/

 

[Warren Allison]

Thanks for the reply. First black calf I've ever had with this group, but always bred to Char and calves always came smokey so I guess I assumed these calves would be red. Guess if I'm really going to pursue red (Gelbvieh or red Char) I'll have to work the brangus out. Not a big deal though if they are good calves.

She will always have a black calf bred to a red bull, but that is ok....the calf will just sell for more! And if you raise replacements, a 1/2 Char black heifer would be ideal. Now, she would be heterozygous black, so could have red calves when bred to a red bull.

 

[crossbreed]

This article is from 1995 and the bull in question is a bull that is in many red factored Charolais cattle today.
I remember the controversy.
https://www.producer.com/news/red-charolais-nets-top-price-ineligible-for-registration-in-us/

Great article thanks. So far I have red from char and Brahman cow and black calves from black cows. Gelbveih bull making some nice calves

 

[CSM]

More posts on this thread than red Charolais bulls around

 

[megs905]

We have bred red Charolais like a tan we called Buff. It is something that has been around since I was a teen back in the 2000s. Some of the great cattle go back to red factor cattle. Our 38M from 2002 was our best heifer and cow and she had champions. This black factors and dark red is stupid tbh

 

[MACVSOG]

Red is recessive. All red cattle are homozygous for red. They can only pass on a red gene. Black is dominant, and a black cow may be homozygous black, or hetero: 1 black and 1 red gene. If that Brangus had a black calf, she is probably homo black. If she ever has a red one, then you will know she is heterozygous black.

just random, nothing to do with charolais. have one pasture of black angus, red angus, and a couple black corriente cows. they had always produced black calves from a black angus bull.

two years ago i introduced a braford bull. now many of the offspring (including corriente) are red (orangish) must be from the hereford half of the braford