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And one must notice that these oxen are white

The caption says, “ Oxen transporting French heavy artillery during WW1. Oxen were useful in pulling the heaviest equipment.” https://www.britishpathe.com/gallery/war-animals/8?epik=dj0yJnU9MUJocDNQWC1ua1ZHbVYyY2RSYmZxZUt2d3dqanF5NTMmcD0wJm49eEN0d191TUhEUnRwTVN4WDB4c1pvUSZ0PUFBQUFBR0FZUkRZ When...

Part 2 And ( this is a question) if the F94L mutation is a substitution of leucine for phenylalanine, doesn’t that seem like adaptation to the stress of domestication? I keep noticing white animals in the F94L carrier pedigrees. “ Phenylalanine is a precursor for tyrosine, the monoamine...

Knabe, I’m working on my epigenetic hypothesis about myostatin. There are two aspects feeding and exercise. I read this about how “Sulforaphane causes a major epigenetic repression of myostatin in porcine satellite cells.” Rutabagas, or Yellow Swedes, the favored feed of days gone by, are full...

beebe, how was the meat?

The same photograph is used to illustrate type in this description of Brandrood. https://www.regionalcattlebreeds.eu/breeds/Brandrood.html

Notice the white inside his ears and could that be a slight white line down his back? or just the light.

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I was trying to find information about a very old herd of cattle known as the Studley White Cattle. In the course of that, I ran across this picture of a Meuse-Rhine-Yssel bull that caught my attention. I read the fine print and it seems many believed this was the breed from a Holland that was...

Neat calves. Just on the topic of older Angus genetics, I’ve always had a lot of interest in Wye Angus. Yesterday when I was doing research on myostatin mutations, I ran into this...

I was revisting this thread trying to, yet again, get a grasp on what the Marshall is in a Sultan Marshall cross. I have forgotten. Maybe someone could post a pedigree I can look at to better understand.  I see this thread started just as I was leaving to move to Nebraska. Seems like a thousand...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335406521_CRUMBLER_A_tool_for_the_prediction_of_ancestry_in_cattle

Let’s talk about breeding combinations for a minute. What type of cow would (one infer) Romeo’s dam to have been and what would she bring to a Leader 21 cross? Instead of disputing the accuracy of the pedigrees, maybe we could just talk about overall type. Maybe there are pictures of the Weston...

Same with this bull. He has those good hard red feet that cover a lot of ground and don’t wear out. Red and a little striped with black. I noticed his feet right away, and at almost 9 years his springs are still good...after a lot of hard work on North Dakota pastures, covering lots of cows for...

Boreal, nt821 sounds undesirable to me. Anecdotally, Pete’s Top Gain might have carried it. I’m still trying to figure out if F94L might be a cold climate adaptation. This is a good site, despite the word miniature in the title. I guess miniature cattle are a perfect storm for defects, so they...

Speckle Park looks to be stacking myostatin and leptin mutations.

I was mistaken about the myostatin variant in Speckle Park, it’s nt821. “There are a number of myostatin genes in cattle, which are responsible for expressing more/extra muscle growth, with nt821 being most relevant in the Speckle Park breed.” https://jadspecklepark.com.au/faqs/ This a...

Well, it’s  a year later and I seem to have walked backwards into this. The bull I recently bought carries the F94L myostatin gene variant. Funny how pedigrees for progeny show genetic information not obvious in the pedigree of the parent animal. As long as the phenotype is not extreme, I’m...

You guys know I am interested in Blue Roans and Blue Greys. I have a friend who grew up In Southwest Scotland, just north of the Border...so, in the Border Lands. He has always said that..way back when he was a boy.. the regional term Scotch Shorthorn meant a white Shorthorn of a certain...

Cumberland Gay Lad from HHFS site. I have to say I prefer this bull and the TPS cross.