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Limousin cattle are both horned and polled depending on genetics. Horned tends to be more prevalent, but it is not uncommon to see French breeders that have polled Limousin cattle. Polled Limousin are most common in North America.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 11y agoThey can be either or. Traditional Limounsins were predominantly horned, but more or most of the modern or North American Limousins are polled due to safety concerns that horns pose for animals and people.
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If a hornless bull mates with a horned cow what are the two genotypes of the two parents?
Hornless = polled. Polled cows and bulls can be either homozygous polled or heterozygous polled. So, since we have no idea of what kind of calf they produce, the genotypical cross will look like this: (H = polled and h= horned) H_ x hh "H_" symbolizes the unknown allele that the polled bull has. Is he hetero polled or homozygous polled? The "hh" of the cow symbolizes she is homozygous horned, since the horned trait in cattle is a recessive trait: polled gene is dominant.
What breed of female cattle have horns?
Almost all breeds of cattle are born with buds, the ability to grow horns. The horns are almost always removed at a young age. Sometimes farmers allow the cattle to grow horns, depending on what breed they're raising. A few breeds have been developed in which the offspring are polled, that is, do not have the ability to grow horns. Holsteins are naturally horned, so their horns need to be trimmed or cut before their horns get too big, which is when they are a few months old if horn buds can be seen or felt. However, other cows can be born polled or hornless and do not need to have their horns trimmed. Horns is a recessive gene in cattle, so if a horned cow mates with a polled bull, the offspring will be polled. But mating horned with horned produces horned offspring, or hetero polled with hetero polled have a 25% chance of producing horned offspring. The naturally polled breeds of cattle include Angus, Red Angus, Brangus, Red Brangus and Galloway.
Is the tarentaise horned or polled?
Polled.
Are belted gallaway polled or horned?
Polled.
If you mate a Hereford bull with horns to a female without horns if the female is homozygous for the no horns how many calves could be born without horns Why?
This is not a matter of how many it's a matter of chance in terms of percentages. In this example, any bull that is horned is ONLY homozygous, both phenotypically AND genotypically, for horned because the horned gene in cattle is recessive. The polled (non-horned) characteristic in cattle is a dominant trait both phenotypically and genotypically. So that means that any horned parent that breeds a homozygous polled parent will have offspring that are ALL polled. The only way you will get horned offspring is one of two ways: a horned sire mates with a horned dam, or, a hetero polled sire mates with a hetero polled dam (resulting in a much smaller chance than the first way). The question above is answered as followed:Homozygous Horned (Hereford) bull x Homozygous Polled female = 100% Polled offspring.I cannot use the Punnett square on this site, but if you use it on a piece of paper you will see that 100% of all offspring are polled. But notice that genotypically they are HETEROZYGOUSLY polled. This means they are polled physically, but in their genes their offspring have a 50% chance, should this offspring be bred to a horned partner, of having either horned offspring or polled offspring. If the offspring of the above cross were bred to a polled partner, the results would be 50% hetero polled and 50% homozygously polled. AND, if the above offspring were bred also to a hetero polled partner, you would get, phenotypically, 75% polled and 25% horned. Genotypically, this is 25% homozygously polled, 50% hetero polled, and 25% homozygously horned.See, the most a cow can have in her lifetime is 20 calves. There is no way that she can have 100 or so calves in her lifetime to see this example work out. Producers have to go by chances of an event happening when selectively breeding cattle, not how many.
Where do Limousin cows come from?
Limousin cattle originated from France, specifically from the Limousin and Marche regions. Locally, though, Limousin cattle come from other Limousin cattle, specifically cows and bulls that are of the Limousin breed.
