larryshoat
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Nice calf MM . Glad to see you are taking the mix up well .I could learn from your example, accepting something that can't be changed anyway and looking on the bright side .
Larry
Larry
milkmaid":31zss4tm said:FWIW, the cow in my avatar is about 80% white and when bred to an angus bull, threw a calf that looked like this...
So had I bred a straight angus heifer to that predominantly white Holstein bull with sexed semen, I should have had a calf that looked mostly Holstein. (Which means there may be some angus breeder out there who is actually quite happy!) And in this case, the calf would have been 3/4 Holstein... and should have been mostly white, to be honest.
The more I think about it the more certain I am that this calf is NOT sired by that Holstein bull.
milkmaid":196qbwk9 said:Randi -- it's pretty common for angus/hol crosses to have a bit of white on their underline (often udder and navel), so that wasn't a surprise. The surprise on that calf in the pic was that he had white on his face; I hadn't seen that before. Seen the white tail on half angus animals, but not the white head markings. (BTW, the sire to that black/white calf in the pic is also the sire to my #12 heifer that just calved.) Regardless of the genetics of it, I've never seen a straight Holstein that didn't have at least one white hoof (and usually all four), where that steer calf didn't have any white on his legs.
All the 3/4 Holstein calves I've seen have been marked up like a straight Holstein, so that was what I was expecting #12 to have. However, after I get this lil bugger checked, I may take back everything I said if he ends up being 3/4 Holstein. :lol: I'm not expecting that though.
they might be speaking of the tissue in the hair follicles?TNMasterBeefProducer":csdh2jds said:Tissue sample done? What kind of crap is that. Most companies can do it via a simple blood test.