[ozark_jewels]

This is M&M's bull calf. He was born on the fifth and I can't believe the size and the chunkiness of him. He is out of our Lee, purebred Jersey, and M&M, who is Hostien/Jersey(mostly Holstien). He looks part beef! By the way, I was wondering why his eyes were running so bad tonight(no pinkeye or tenderness, just runny), checked it out and found both eyes ringed with duckweed from the pond that the cows spend a lot of time in.....maybe momma didn't teach him not to open his eyes underwater??

He is going with his mother to their new home in Kansas tomorrow. He is the herds baby.

 

[james dilley]

He has A nice look , He sure looks good.

 

[Jennifer L.]

What a little piglet! LOL! I'll bet a lot of folks here will agree with me, there's nothing much nicer to see than a little calf that's growing like a weed. You do a really nice job with your animals.

Jennifer

 

[Jennifer L.]

Hey, here's a question for you, Ozark jewels, while I'm thinking of it: What makes a partial Jersey come out with the white spots sometimes? I've seen Jersey crossed with Holsteins that look almost like Holsteins, but with Jersey body characteristics, and I've seen the same cross where the cow is pure black from one end to the other, but I rarely see a cross where they have the Jersey wild type colour but have the spots as well. Looks really attractive to me. Do you know the genetics of why they look like that?

Jennifer

 

[francismilker]

I know of a dairy not far from me that starting using a bull of this cross and color as his herd bull and started getting some very uniquely colored offspring to say the least. Some of the crop-out colors went against the odds and science of certain colors being more dominant than others. I'm not sure if it's possible, but with horses there's such thing as a homozygus (not sure how to spell that one) stud that will put the color white on whatever color your mare is. Maybe this is possible with bovine?

 

[ozark_jewels]

Hey, here's a question for you, Ozark jewels, while I'm thinking of it: What makes a partial Jersey come out with the white spots sometimes? I've seen Jersey crossed with Holsteins that look almost like Holsteins, but with Jersey body characteristics, and I've seen the same cross where the cow is pure black from one end to the other, but I rarely see a cross where they have the Jersey wild type colour but have the spots as well. Looks really attractive to me. Do you know the genetics of why they look like that?

Jennifer

I haven't a clue. We have had many of the Jersey/Hostien crosses over the years and the majority came out a chocolate color. Then a few were chocolate with little white specks and then we have had two that came out like this one. By the way, they both had turned chocolate brown with white by their second birthday. So even if their born this way, doesn't mean it will stay. I expect he will be pretty dark by the time he is butchered.

 

[topside1]

Emily 2.5 weeks!!! Not 2.5 months,,,,just kidding that's one stocky brute.

 

[Jennifer L.]

I've got several Jersey Holstein crosses and generally they've been black and white. There is the one black one (mentioned on the kicking thread). When they've been bred back to Holstein the black and white seems set, but they still have the dished face, black hooves sometimes, of a Jersey.

Colour genetics is interesting. I've had cows my whole life but they were straight Holstein up to a few years ago so I've never seen a whole lot different out in the barn. The mixes are more fun to look at.

Jennifer