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<blockquote data-quote="randiliana" data-source="post: 383198" data-attributes="member: 2308"><p>But, Registered Black Angus IS supposed to mean something. They are supposed to be HOMO polled which means you should NEVER get horned offspring off them, and I also believe that they are supposed to be HOMO solid colored which means NO spots either.</p><p></p><p>I am not too worried about it. I find it a bit pathetic though that the breeds are not as pure as they would have us believe ;-) . I understand a fair bit about genetics myself, and the white marks you are seeing are coming from a recessive gene. What this means, it that BOTH parents had to carry 1 copy of that gene. It doesn't shock me that the red calf's mother could carry that recessive gene. However, being that the recessive spotting gene had to also (in both cases) come from a Registered Black Angus animal, I find kind of ironic. The horn gene is also recessive. I knew that cow carried the horn gene, since she often would have horned calves when bred to Horned Hereford. The red gene does not bother me at all. I rather like the red calves myself, and I know that there are numerous animals in the Black Angus breed that carry the red gene.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="randiliana, post: 383198, member: 2308"] But, Registered Black Angus IS supposed to mean something. They are supposed to be HOMO polled which means you should NEVER get horned offspring off them, and I also believe that they are supposed to be HOMO solid colored which means NO spots either. I am not too worried about it. I find it a bit pathetic though that the breeds are not as pure as they would have us believe ;-) . I understand a fair bit about genetics myself, and the white marks you are seeing are coming from a recessive gene. What this means, it that BOTH parents had to carry 1 copy of that gene. It doesn't shock me that the red calf's mother could carry that recessive gene. However, being that the recessive spotting gene had to also (in both cases) come from a Registered Black Angus animal, I find kind of ironic. The horn gene is also recessive. I knew that cow carried the horn gene, since she often would have horned calves when bred to Horned Hereford. The red gene does not bother me at all. I rather like the red calves myself, and I know that there are numerous animals in the Black Angus breed that carry the red gene. [/QUOTE]
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