Colour Coding

Ted Neal · Post by **Ted Neal** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:37 pm

Welcome back
Something that may interest - I have just finished (for the time being that is) calving and have calved 9. Unfortunately one was a breech birth and we lost the calf. Of the eight survivors - 3 were heifers and 5 bulls. The interesting bit was all the heifers are red and all the bulls black. I used a red bull on 6 black cows and a black bull on one red and one black heifer.

Post by **Mark Bowles** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:41 pm

Nice to hear from you Ted,you should have no trouble selling red heifers,are any of them short?

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:31 pm

Hi Ted,
Its funny how the genes click sometimes

...one year I had all shortleg blacks (Ifemale 4males) and all the longlegs were red (4females 4males) and it looked like they were two different little herds when they were running in their calf paddocks.

All the best
Kathleen

Ted Neal · Post by **Ted Neal** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:24 pm

Regarding Reds - they are all what is called in the trade non-short. Two are the lighter red the other darker.

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 4:49 am

How dark is she Ted?

Kathleen

Ted Neal · Post by **Ted Neal** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:30 pm

Re dark red
She is a Red Poll/Sussex red.
I would anticipate that a bit of sunshine will cause her to fade !!
Hope not
All the best
Ted

Kathleen · Post by **Kathleen** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:58 am

Ted she sounds gorgous!
But I do not think your sun will fade her :;):
Those that colour over here do not even fade under our sun!

All the best
Kathleen.