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A red and white heifer A red and white heifer. The expression of red colour replacing the black in Holsteins is a function of a recessive gene. [33] Assuming the allele 'B' stands for the dominant black and 'b' for the recessive red, cattle with the paired genes 'BB', 'Bb', or 'bB' would be black and white, while 'bb' cattle would be red and white.
Kian (11 June 1997 [1] – 2013) [2] was a red-and-white breeding bull. He was the first red Holstein bull from the Netherlands whose semen was sold worldwide; more than a million units of his frozen semen were sold. He was owned by the Dutch-Belgian company CRV . [3]
A horned cow The coat may be black-and-white A polled bull. The Norwegian Red or Norsk Rødt Fe [4]: 509 is a Norwegian breed of dairy cattle. It was formed in 1961 through successive mergers of various traditional and regional breeds. In 2016 it accounted for approximately 85% of the cattle in the country, and about 99% of the national dairy herd.
The Husum Red Pied or Rotbunte Husumer is a rare Danish breed of domestic pig. [ 4 ] : 230 It is a red pig with a white belt or saddle which includes the forelegs, so the head, neck, rump and hind parts are red; it is considered a colour variant of the Angeln Saddleback .
Over 1000 breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses. [1]Cattle breeds fall into two main types, which are regarded as either two closely related species, or two subspecies of one species.
The Ayrshire (IPA / ˈ ɛər ʃ ər /) is a Scottish breed of dairy cattle.It originates in, and is named for, the county of Ayrshire in south-western Scotland. Ayrshires typically have red and white markings; the red can range from a shade of orange to a dark brown.
The Swiss Holstein is the Swiss variant of the international Holstein-Friesian breed of dairy cattle. It results from systematic cross-breeding , through artificial insemination between 1966 and 1973, of the traditional dual-purpose black-pied Fribourgeoise from the Canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland with Canadian Holstein stock.
Since 1958 in West Germany the breed was crossed with Holstein Friesian cattle. Since the 1960s these crossed animals have been dominant, and so the German black-and-white cattle breed was born. [1] In East Germany the breed was crossed with Jersey cattle and Holstein Friesian cattle to create the German Black Pied Dairy cattle breed. [2]