The red gene

[coachg]

This is a 4year old with her 3rd calf . Second one by our Quaker Hill Rampage bull I sold back in the spring because of age . She is out of one my original registered black angus cows . I've tried to get a picture of her a couple of times but never really showed her color .

 

[coachg]

Neighbor's bull is a black angus and has not been in our pasture. We redid our fence a few years back between us . 6 good tight strands of barbed wire .

 

[Ky hills]

This is a 4year old with her 3rd calf . Second one by our Quaker Hill Rampage bull I sold back in the spring because of age . She is out of one my original registered black angus cows . I've tried to get a picture of her a couple of times but never really showed her color . View attachment 59376

I ain't plum for sure, but I believe that calf will end up being black.

 

[M.Magis]

I've had a lot of "black" calves that color that shed out to black in the fall, though it always seems to be the simm cross calves. I thought it was a simmental thing.

 

[Ky hills]

I've had a lot of "black" calves that color that shed out to black in the fall, though it always seems to be the simm cross calves. I thought it was a simmental thing.

Got 2 of those color calves this year by an Angus bull. One is turning black and just has a little of the brown hair left

 

[coachg]

I've had them with a little red tint but nothing like this . Good heifer calf . I'm not negative to the color . Just know how the buyers at the stockyard view color .

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

I call that just a lighter shade of black. I call them cherry blacks. They've always sold in the graded pens with the dark ones here.

 

[Warren Allison]

I've had them with a little red tint but nothing like this . Good heifer calf . I'm not negative to the color . Just know how the buyers at the stockyard view color .

To me, in this pic, it doesn't look red, as in SG red, or Red Angus red, or Hereford red, but more of a brown color. I too, have seen brown calves like this, with the black points, turn black as they age. Good looking cow and calf, too, though.

 

[coachg]

We are talking keep all our heifers calves this year , at least for 60-90 days. It will be interesting to see her at 7-9 months old .

 

[Dave]

Of course with purchased cows you are never sure. This is from back in February. The cow is darn sure black and the calf is darn sure red. Probably a red bull but the cow still has to have a red gene. I saw him nursing on her in early May. I wish I would have had the camera. Would have been the same picture except he has grown a bunch.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

This is a 2020 model heifer calf. AngusX cow, sire was a black angus. By summers end that calf was black and has thrown her own "red" calf (that turned black as well"), as well as 2 traditional black calves.