Chondro Cross?

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:30 pm

If you put a carrier bull to another breed of cow, or another breed of bull to a carrier dexter cow, would the calf have a 50/50 chance of being born with chondro?

Duncan MacIntyre · Post by **Duncan MacIntyre** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:32 pm

Yes 50% will be short leg chondrodysplasia carriers, the other 50% will be long legged non carriers. You will not get a bulldog.

Duncan

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:19 pm

Thanks Duncan. I better just explain I'm not doing it, I was just interested in what the answer would be.

Duncan MacIntyre · Post by **Duncan MacIntyre** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:00 pm

I have seen the results, many years ago I supplied 20 or so straws of Ilsington Bramble semen to a dairy farm which had had terrible calving problems using an Angus bull. We had an assortment of long and short black calves with horns. One of the longer ones appeared in a local suckler herd years later having been sold to a dealer who put it in with a number of cows he supplied. The new owner did not know what he had till I spotted it.

Duncan