I have a question for all you shorhorn breeders out there in SP world. If any of you have bred your shorthorn cows/ heifers to a pb angus bull have you gotten any off color calves? By off color I am not refering to blues, blacks or blacks with some white but rather a non standard shorthorn or angus color?
The reason for the question is that we have run an angus bull for clean-up on the shorty cows for the last 6 years and have always gotten blacks or blues. Last year we had to buy a new clean up bull and bought another pb angus, thus far the two shorthorn cows that have calved to him both have had calves that can only be desicribed as brown ( almost brown swissish) color. Not red of any color and not black. Bulls reg papers do not show he is a red carrier or that anything in his lineage was a red carrier. I am courious if this bull might have a little unspoken something in his pedigree.
The reason for the question is that we have run an angus bull for clean-up on the shorty cows for the last 6 years and have always gotten blacks or blues. Last year we had to buy a new clean up bull and bought another pb angus, thus far the two shorthorn cows that have calved to him both have had calves that can only be desicribed as brown ( almost brown swissish) color. Not red of any color and not black. Bulls reg papers do not show he is a red carrier or that anything in his lineage was a red carrier. I am courious if this bull might have a little unspoken something in his pedigree.