What colour of calf will a grey cow calf?

[Ltec]

As above. What influence has a grey cow on the colour of the calf. Will she throw most of them grey like herself?

 

[bluepower]

As above. What influence has a grey cow on the colour of the calf. Will she throw most of them grey like herself?

Depends what she is in calf to and what her genetic breeding is. A bit like asking how long is a piece of string?

 

[Ltec]

Charolais out of a Fresian. What colour will limousins or charolais usually be. What calf would she usually through grey.

 

[bluepower]

Charolais out of a Fresian. What colour will limousins or charolais usually be. What calf would she usually through grey.

Some breeds colour stamp progeny more predictably than others. I would say a Charolais bull on a Charx Fr would give a fairly pale grey calf or in some cicumstances a pure white calf. Limms on the other hand do not colour mark progeny so predictably and a calf could come any colour from red to white or a combination of anything in between. The joys and excitement of cross breeding, just like a tin of liquorice allsorts.

 

[dannewhouse]

I would expect a charxfri cow to a red lim bull to calve a black calf!!!

I have a limx cow out of a sim and the calf when crossed to a blue (near black bull) throws marked like a sim but grey and white ... Always a bit tapped aswell!

 

[Agrivator]

A calf can change colour as it gets older. Unless it dies of scour before it gets a chance.

 

[Forever Fendt]

A calf can change colour as it gets older. Unless it dies of scour before it gets a chance.

can't beat being positive

 

[haymaker80]

Charolais out of a Fresian. What colour will limousins or charolais usually be. What calf would she usually through grey.

If you had a herd of cows bred like that to a charolais bull you'd end up with a mixture of grey, white and some marked like grey/white fresians I'd guess. To get predominately grey calves you'd normally put a charolais bull onto black cows

 

[Ltec]

I'm thinking of buying a few bucket fed calves for cows. Don't know what breed to buy. We usually put them to limousins. The red limousins seem to make more money for us.

 

[Agrivator]

I'm thinking of buying a few bucket fed calves for cows. Don't know what breed to buy. We usually put them to limousins. The red limousins seem to make more money for us.

If I was starting from scratch, I would try to buy Simmental cross heifer calves out of Friesian cows from a BVD-free herd. As adult breeding cows, they tend to keep their flesh better than Belgian Blue or Limousin crosses, particularly if they are out of more Holstein types. .

And then the choice of bull is between either Limousin or Charolais - AI and/or natural service.

 

[NZDan]

Charolais out of a Fresian. What colour will limousins or charolais usually be. What calf would she usually through grey.

Genetics are fairly simple.
A Fresian is homozygous black with no dilute gene and a Charolais is homozygous red with homozygous dilute making it look white. and a limmie is homozygous red no dilute.
The said cow carries one black and one red gene, and one dilute and one non-dilute gene.
To Charolais you'll get either grey, strawberry or white (grey or pink nosed)
to a Limmie you'll get either grey, strawberry, black or red.