is color dominate?

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randiliana

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You're welcome everyone, I'm glad I was able to help out.

Not sure what you mean CAB about holstienxhereford. Anything with a hereford parent should be a baldie.
 

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randiliana said:
You're welcome everyone, I'm glad I was able to help out.

Not sure what you mean CAB about holstienxhereford. Anything with a hereford parent should be a baldie.
Hereford crosses will not always be baldies but they will have some white on their faces.
 

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Good topic. I have always wondered about the color of the pure Italian Chianina. They are white or grey with a black nose. I don't think they have the diluter gene, but when crossed with pure angus , they are black, but in the second cross they may be blackor some shade of brown. Does this mean they are the wild color?
 

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afhm said:
randiliana said:
You're welcome everyone, I'm glad I was able to help out.

Not sure what you mean CAB about holstienxhereford. Anything with a hereford parent should be a baldie.
Hereford crosses will not always be baldies but they will have some white on their faces.

That is still a baldie. It is just that they also have the Brockling gene, which is another dominant trait, but not the same gene as the white face gene.
 

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olsun said:
Good topic. I have always wondered about the color of the pure Italian Chianina. They are white or grey with a black nose. I don't think they have the diluter gene, but when crossed with pure angus , they are black, but in the second cross they may be blackor some shade of brown. Does this mean they are the wild color?

The Chianina breed has a dilution gene which removes only RED pigment. Now, whether it also works on the wild color I am not sure. I do know that there are a # of different dilution genes, in addition to the ones we commonly think of (Charolais and Simmental). Many of them are not really well understood, and could be the result of several genes working together.

As far as the brown calves, that could possibly trace back to the angus, or it could be that the Chianina may carry the wild gene as well.
 

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  Every calf that I have seen from a Holstein Hereford mating has been a BWF with a plus on most of them of a predominately white underline.
  On my original reply, I was thinking of hogs and color dominance. It seems to be simpler to keep the basic color dominance order strait in the pigs in my mind. I suppose it's b/c with hogs, I mainly was breeding the main 8 PB breeds. Do swine have the "wild" breeds also, and isn't spot dominant in swine? Brent
 

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I don't really know anything about hogs, but all animals should have a 'wild type' coloration. That's the original color that they would have had BEFORE domestication. All other colors and patterns are the result of mutations. Wild type in cattle is a reddish brown, darkening on the face, legs, neck and shoulders, and they are horned.

Wild type in horses is dun, often with black points, think of Preswalski's horses.
Pigs would probably be a brown color as well.

These colors helped them to blend into their surroundings.
 
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