I am wondering if there is any updated research on monkey mouth. I pulled DL's quote from an old post:
Monkey mouth is believed to be a recessive trait with variable penetrance - meaning that you can see widely varied phenotypes - from the calf that looks like a French bulldog without incisors to the calf whose botton jaw is an inch or more longer that the top making it hard for him to eat.
We have a cow that has thrown her second monkey mouth calf (this is her second calf). She does go back to JDS Stout, who goes back to Power Plant, so I figure she is a big part of the problem. My question is whether there is any information showing that the dam can be the only carrier for it to be expressed in the calf or is it truly a recessive trait requiring both dam and sire to be carriers?
Monkey mouth is believed to be a recessive trait with variable penetrance - meaning that you can see widely varied phenotypes - from the calf that looks like a French bulldog without incisors to the calf whose botton jaw is an inch or more longer that the top making it hard for him to eat.
We have a cow that has thrown her second monkey mouth calf (this is her second calf). She does go back to JDS Stout, who goes back to Power Plant, so I figure she is a big part of the problem. My question is whether there is any information showing that the dam can be the only carrier for it to be expressed in the calf or is it truly a recessive trait requiring both dam and sire to be carriers?