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Probably the best cows I have. Decided to try and breed some myself. Bought about 6 milking shorthorn cows and bred them to an angus bull. All I get is black calves. What am I doing wrong? Any thoughts? Thanks
 
Nearly all first cross progeny will be black. Once you have that F1 Angus/Shorthorn, breed that to a purebred and then, as I understand, your blue roan coloring will be more prevalent. I found this in an internet search- I have no experience in blending breeds of cattle- we raise Angus but are colorblind :)
Hope this helps, its an interesting subject!
Lon
 
My dad bought two "blue" milk cows in the late '70's. We always thought they were Holstein bred dual purpose Shorthorn. They were both crackerjack cows, great udders with higher milk solids than the Holsteins. We probably kept them for seven or eight lactations.....Ron
 
When I was a kid, for a while we had a shorthorn bull. One of the calves he sired with our Holstein milk cow was a very pretty blue roan heifer, who looked like a dairy cow. That heifer grew up to be a good milk cow, but about her 3rd or 4th pregnancy she had twin heifers (black whitefaces), and after that she never got pregnant again. Something must have been damaged by having twins and she ended up going to the stockyard. She never produced a blue roan calf, and was not a friendly, "petsey" cow like some of our others. As I remember, she was a bit of a fence crawler, who could jump over most of our fences if she felt like it (I SAW her do it several times!). But she was a good milk producer, who never kicked when hand milked. I liked her a lot and hated to lose her from my little dairy herd. But no calf, no milk.
 
You are having blue roan calves or you want them blue roan and they are all black? I have some limousin and some angus cows. I have a red/white shorthorn bull. The cows are bred but I havent had any calves yet out of him. I just bought 2 milking shortorn heifers to breed with the beef shorthorn bull but wont do that till probably june. I guess it depends on the cows. My limousin cows (black) bred to a supposedly black bull had a red calf. The next year my red cow bred with an angus bull had a black calf. Depends on the breeds and some colors of the animals. Not sure on the cow vs bull dominance.
 
I am wanting to produce blueroan clalves to increase my blueroan cow numbers in my herd. I always thought that a milking shorthorn and an angus bull would produce a blueroan calf, but I have tried this for 2 years with different angus bulls and all I am getting is black calves. Not sure if milking shorthorn bull and an angus cow would be a better choice or do I need different breeds (what makes a blueroan calf)?
 
(quoted from post at 02:23:09 03/10/13) Probably the best cows I have. Decided to try and breed some myself. Bought about 6 milking shorthorn cows and bred them to an angus bull. All I get is black calves. What am I doing wrong? Any thoughts? Thanks
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" Decided to try and breed some myself. " ...and I always thought that was just a joke!
 
inthe mid-late 70s my dad had a cow that produced a blue roan. the cow was some kind of milk stock, a rust colored jersey, gurnsey mixed something or another bred to a angus bull. the calf was a male so he got shipped but i wanted my dad to keep him just because of the color
 
The Aberdeen Angus is one of the best breeds of bull for "Colormarking" calves i.e. they come out looking just like dad! many years ago when farmers over here were given a subsidy for breeding beef calves the AA was one of the most popular breeds because they consistently color marked their calves, even if mom was a Friesian , Ayrshire etc.
 
Using a white Shorthorn bull on black or red cows will often produce blue or red roans. For some reason there are a lot of white shorthorn cattle in Tennessee and Kentucky.
 
Here is a link to what you are talking about. Funny thing is it just came up a couple days ago.

http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=63854
 
See my response on Using Your Tractor forum.
If the bull is homozygous black,you'll always get a black calf. If it's heterozygous black,there's a chance it won't be.
 
We bought a blue lineback when I was in jr high. She was a heck of a milker, but we only got one lineback out of her, and she was pretty friendly, I could sit on the stall divider, lean back, and fall asleep petting her. Lineback calf was black and not as friendly, but a heck of a milker as well. Tried breeding her to brown Swiss a couple times, but never got to see the calves, our so-called herdsman killed them before I could get in off the road because he didn't like cross-breeds.
 
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