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Polled.
Polled.
There really isn't much of an obvious difference, except Herefords are a horned breed and Polled Herefords are bred to be naturally polled or hornless. Some of the Hereford breeders will tell you that the horned Herefords have more depth and are a little larger than the polled Herefords, but when a novice looks at a horned Hereford and a polled Hereford side-by-side, he will see no other obvious differences.
A polled goat is hornless.
Angus, Red Angus, Polled Shorthorn, Polled Hereford, Brangus, Red Brangus, Red Poll, are the breeds that I can think of that are born naturally polled.
The past tense of "poll" is "polled."
Yes.
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.
Amerifax cattle are predominantly polled.
Polled. The dominant polled characteristics come from the Red Poll breed that is infused into this breed to make it the Senepol breed.
Charbrays can be both horned or polled, or even scurred.
Correct. "Polled" is the term given to cattle and goats that never grow horns. For example, Red Polls and Angus are cattle breeds that are naturally polled. Appenzells are a naturally polled breed of goats.