Alias colours

[kjd farms]

Just wondering how dominant Alias is in throwing gray/smoke/white calves. 

90% of our cows are black. 

Does he throw many black ones?

 

[wpenrod]

The only two Alias calves I have ever owned are both solid black but boths of their dams are also black

 

[wrc]

I have an angus cow that has had 2 Alias calves, first was smoke, second black.  I AI'd a Hoo Doo cow for a friend of mine to Alias, she had twins 1 smoke and 1 black.  That makes us 50/50 but not a very good test.

 

[Shebet21]

I've got 2 fall calves out of Alias and Angus cows. One is smoke and one is black.

 

[kjd farms]

Thanks for the info.

What about calving ease?

 

[wrc]

The biggest we have had was 91.  no pulls or problems so far,  be sure you use him on sound , good structured cows.

 

[kfacres]

I have seen several Alias's...  I'd say about 1/2 of each....  bred to variety of cows... 

One more thing to add, make sure you're breeding him to larger cows...  he sure can downsize one>>> 

 

[5VSC]

A feed customer of dads ai'd a red cow to alias and got a black and white/socked calf!

 

[Titangurl]

We've gotten a solid red blue roan and cream

 

[steerraiser]

We've had around 30 Alias calves in the last few calving seasons and you will get multiple colors.  Red and White stocking legs out of black cow, same black cow last year had solid black calf, year before that she had a smokey calf, and year before that had a yellow calf.  All 4 of those color combos were from the same cow 4 years in a row bred to Alias.  We have white calves out of black cows, smokeys out of smokeys, but they usually come black out of the smokeys at our place, red cows having red calves, yellow calves, and black and white calves. 

Lots of variation each and every year.  I won't have as many this coming year, but there are still a few bred to him.  He makes them super stout in terms of muscle and bone, just got to watch that front skeleton.  Average birth weight has been around 85-90 lbs, don't remember pulling one out either.