White Angus cow at The Iowa State Fair

It is a known fact that Angus are descended from Shorthorns-just looking at her head alone (not to mention the friendly demeanor) shes definitely dscended from a Shorthorn,possibly a British White-could also go back to White Park-Also got a Shorthorn looking front,and feet. O0

Bryan said:

red color is NOT normal. that is why the red gene is the recessive gene

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Your logic is totally flawed. By your logic, if you don't have freckles you must be abnormal because freckles are dominant and no freckles is recessive. - by definition a recessive traits when homozygous leads to a different phenotype - not all recessive traits result is an abnormal phenotype nor are all recessive traits defects - you probable need to review genetics 101
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this is the definition of abnormal from dictionary.com: not normal, average, typical, or usual; deviating from a standard.
Checkmate!  Good work, Bryan. 

Don't red Angus have an upgrading program??  I don't remember the AAA offering such a program.

that means that recessive traits are abnormal because they arent typically seen and its not usual or average for two black cows to have a red calf. which means that since the red gene is recessive it is abnormal
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recessive gene n.
A gene that is phenotypically expressed in the homozygous state but has its expression masked in the presence of a dominant gene.

Recessive genes are in everything, is everything abnormal?
How can you develop two breeds from a single herd that consisted of both red and black animals and consider the herd that carries a recessive gene to be abnormal.  Having a black angus herd today and them having a red calf would be abnormal, having a red angus herd today and them having a black calf would be abnormal.  Red angus are bred to have red calves, is this abnormal.  How many black angus herds are there that are having red calves, if you had one, you won the lottery.  So if you mate a black animal to a white animal (example in my previous post) both are dominant but one of them will most likely be recessive in that particular mating.  Would that be considered abnormal?