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Funny Markings

randiliana

Well-known member
Here is a cow we have that has a very unusual marking. We think she is Shorthorn x Angus.

From the left side

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and





From the right side

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Anyone else have some weird markings to share??
 

Shorthornguy

Well-known member
I don't see any Angus in her. Looks pure Shorthorn. A Roan bull on red cows will give you lots of strange combinations. One darn nice looking cow.
 

randiliana

Well-known member
Shorthornguy said:
I don't see any Angus in her. Looks pure Shorthorn. A Roan bull on red cows will give you lots of strange combinations. One darn nice looking cow.

Thanks,

Her head looks angus to me. Regardless, she is a good deep cow. Her calves have always been solid colored, or with a white or brockle face when bred hereford. Wouldn't mind if she gave us a calf marked like her :lol:
 

Faster horses

Well-known member
We used to breed Hereford cows to Angus bulls, until we changed to
Black Angus cows starting in 1979. We had a Hereford cow calve,
and that calf was solid red!!! Since red cattle are my favorite, we
kept her. We called her Cincinnati Red and she was in the herd
for a long time. I've got a scanner that I need to learn how to run,
and if I do, I'll post a picture of her.

Anyone know how that happened? Not the red, but the solid
red. No white anywhere.
 

randiliana

Well-known member
Faster horses said:
We used to breed Hereford cows to Angus bulls, until we changed to
Black Angus cows starting in 1979. We had a Hereford cow calve,
and that calf was solid red!!! Since red cattle are my favorite, we
kept her. We called her Cincinnati Red and she was in the herd
for a long time. I've got a scanner that I need to learn how to run,
and if I do, I'll post a picture of her.

Anyone know how that happened? Not the red, but the solid
red. No white anywhere.

She was bred to a black bull correct? We have a Hereford cow that has had solid calves 2 years running. One black and the other red. Both out of the same Black Angus bull. Just the way the genetics click I guess.

Here she is
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And here is her calf from this year
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randiliana

Well-known member
Faster horses said:
Thanks!!! We weren't alone then. That solid red face sure had us
scratching our heads!!!

That isn't the only one that we have had like that. It works the other way too, had 2 solid black cows bred Hereford, and they both threw a real hereford looking calf this spring.
 

Jason

Well-known member
There is a wild color gene that shows up once in a while.

Herefords called it spot factor I think.

I talked with 1 red Angus breeder that got black calves from red parents... there were almost law suits but it was determined a wild color factor was present. The association doesn't like to admit it occurs.

Without the wild color factor, pure Angus crossed with pure Hereford will result in the traditional baldie offspring. Any spots or speckles indicates something else in the ancestry of either parent.
 

IL Rancher

Well-known member
Jason, you are talking about the extension gene.. And yep, there is a a gene ther that goes by the symbol E+ that causes some interesting stuff. calves being bon red and truning black is one of them Some breed assocatons (Simmntal I think) are listing it as a genetic defect now or so a researcher up in Sask told me a couple years ago. She was very interesting to talk to.. Basically that E+ can cause a bnuch of other genes to express, fun. I think Tim Olsen down in Florida might have something on line about it.
 
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