I was just wondering if anyone has had any fawn calves. I AI'd 15 of my heifers to the angus bull Redirect and 3 of them have been fawn calves. Counting my lucky stars I didnt breed any more to him. Anybody else seeing any fawn calves?
DejaVu said:He goes back to 1680. GAR 1680 is supposedly going to be a carrier of several genetic defects, besides AM.
Karl said:The frustrating thing about this is I contacted Select Sires about this and they have just blown me off. I also contacted the American Angus Association, they wanted pictures and want DNA.
brushpopper said:OK I'm going to display my ignorance here and have to ask what the ----- is fawn and hydro calves?
Hay Feeder said:I have been told by a very respected source that the fawn deal is not that big of a problem here in the US. Some Aussy have had some issues by stacking pedigrees and of course blaming it on US bulls but at the same time they have Australian genetics mixed in their of stacking US lines. This man was at the World Form in Austraila (Sp) and claims he saw some donor cows that they were flushing to stack these gentics to GET the fawn defect. Ofcourse the AAA is asking for tissues from suspect calves is determine if this is a serious problem here in the US. Some breeders think they have fawn calves but at the same time some of these people have not owned cattle very long to understand how calves get going even in the winter.
MY point I do not think this will be a big issue but something to think about.
At the same time the internet makes a bigger deal that things actually are. Some of the new cattle owners are making more noise than people that have owned cattle for years.