delta 88":2rilot6f said:Jovid, if you read the History of the Red Angus breed on their website, they acknowledge that there was probably some Shorthorn blood introduced back in the 1700's to early 1800's in the foundation animals of both the current Red and Black Angus breeds.
Most of the Red Angus animals that I have seen have light colored noses and some sort of hint of white to their switch. I would guess that the light nose comes with the red color for the most part, although I have seen a few red calves with dark noses. I seriously doubt if it is from some breeders using your great Red Polls within the Red Angus genepool. Of the pictures that I have seen of Red Polls, there is a difference in some animals as far as how much white is in the switch of them too if I am not mistaken.
I'm not sure what BRG did/said to you to try to knock his cattle and the Red Angus breed as a whole by trying to insinuate that there are Red Polls that have been infused into the Red Angus genepool, but he has always been very helpful to us and has been nothing but nice. If anything, I would wonder if the opposite has happened before, that AR genes have been "added" to the Red Poll gene pool.
I don't believe I said a thing about BRGs cattle. As a matter of fact I think he has some of the best cattle I have seen on here. You are the one that is rather defensive over that fact that I indicated that some of the Red Angus have white switches which would not be normal if a Red Angus is the same as a Black Angus except for the color of the hide.
I don't believe there is anyone that can say any breed is pure. I wouldn't even say that about Red Polls but I will say that it is more likely that there is more Red Poll genes in Red Angus than there are Red Angus genes in Red Poll.