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<blockquote data-quote="ShuterSunset" data-source="post: 820610" data-attributes="member: 7662"><p>Chuckar,</p><p></p><p>The color pattern that you will get from the Red Poll cross will pretty much depend upon the color pattern of the other breed you use. The Red Poll's red color is recessive, just like any other red hide. If you use a homozygous black bull, the calves will be black. If the bull has a trait for a white face, you can get those two. </p><p></p><p>We have used some different breeds of bulls on some of our purebred Red Poll cows and those commercial females will work well. We used a black chi-angus bull 15 or 20 years ago to try to get some black show steers out of the Red Poll females. We got black one's and the cows were really good as well. One of our best commercial cows was out of a big Meyer Red Top Simmy female and one of our Red Poll bulls. She sure milks like a Holstien, although she is a bit bigger framed than ideal due to the Red Top cow she was out of. She was a product of the great space race of the 80's. We had a commercial black, white faced recip cow that ended up being cleaned up by the Red Poll bull last year and she threw a pretty little RWF steer calf that did pretty well. </p><p></p><p>If you use a homo black bull, they will all end up being black, just like any other red cow. Those steers would work great, but I would have trouble selling any of the heifers because they would all make dang nice cows from what we have seen with our commercial halfblood Red Poll cows. I don't intend to be pimping the Red Poll breed, just trying to share our results. We have been happy with the RP cross females for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ShuterSunset, post: 820610, member: 7662"] Chuckar, The color pattern that you will get from the Red Poll cross will pretty much depend upon the color pattern of the other breed you use. The Red Poll's red color is recessive, just like any other red hide. If you use a homozygous black bull, the calves will be black. If the bull has a trait for a white face, you can get those two. We have used some different breeds of bulls on some of our purebred Red Poll cows and those commercial females will work well. We used a black chi-angus bull 15 or 20 years ago to try to get some black show steers out of the Red Poll females. We got black one's and the cows were really good as well. One of our best commercial cows was out of a big Meyer Red Top Simmy female and one of our Red Poll bulls. She sure milks like a Holstien, although she is a bit bigger framed than ideal due to the Red Top cow she was out of. She was a product of the great space race of the 80's. We had a commercial black, white faced recip cow that ended up being cleaned up by the Red Poll bull last year and she threw a pretty little RWF steer calf that did pretty well. If you use a homo black bull, they will all end up being black, just like any other red cow. Those steers would work great, but I would have trouble selling any of the heifers because they would all make dang nice cows from what we have seen with our commercial halfblood Red Poll cows. I don't intend to be pimping the Red Poll breed, just trying to share our results. We have been happy with the RP cross females for sure. [/QUOTE]
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