Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

A dun Dexter really is a black Dexter with two recessive genes at a different location (the Brown "B" locus) that interfere with the completion of the black pigment that is called for by the dominant black (ED) genes at the E locus. So a black animal is ED/ED (homozygous black) or ED/E+ (...

Kirk, I bow to your vastly superior knowledge of colour inheritance, but in the case of brindle Dexters, all those I have come across have a Jersey lurking in the pedigree; commonly used as an outcross, before the bulldog problem was solved. Nearly all Jerseys have the E+ (wild-type) red gene as a ...

We just had a calf born yesterday morning in the very cold and wet of early December (we usually calve in April - this cow is off cycle). The calf is doing great. I really like calving and lambing outside on fresh ground. Sunshine is a great sanitizer. Our herd has never been inside or under shelte...

Kirk, a friend theorised that it could be possible for a ventral stripe to be lack of colour rather than a white line, as this is presumably where colour meets up with itself, and may possibly sometimes be incomplete. Is there any evidence anywhere that this could be so, and if so, how would it be ...

Here is a possible explanation: Think of how all animals begin as a single fertilized egg, then that single cell divides into 2, then 4, then 8, then 16, etc....... At first, all the cells (stem cells) are identical. Then at some point, the cells start to differentiate and migrate to their position...

The following information comes from this site: http://www.bovigen.com/tenderness.htm "GeneSTAR® Tenderness was the first multi-marker single trait test commercially available to the beef industry. In its current form, it combines three markers from two different and independent genes. GeneSTA...

The following information comes from this site: http://www.bovigen.com/tenderness.htm "GeneSTAR® Tenderness was the first multi-marker single trait test commercially available to the beef industry. In its current form, it combines three markers from two different and independent genes. GeneSTA...

The polled gene is a single dominant gene and animals with this gene are polled. An animal can't "carry" a dominant gene, it must exhibit that gene. There is no such thing as "polled genetics". A horned animal with a polled ancestors does NOT carry "polled genetics". I...

The polled gene is a single dominant gene and animals with this gene are polled. An animal can't "carry" a dominant gene, it must exhibit that gene. There is no such thing as "polled genetics". A horned animal with a polled ancestors does NOT carry "polled genetics". I...

Thanks for that Kirk i think i understood it after the third reading. So is the non-short the true size of a Dexter? Do you deal with genetics etc in your work Kirk or just read a lot?:) Many different theories exist about the source of Dexters and the historical role of the chondrodyplasia gene. S...

Thanks for that Kirk i think i understood it after the third reading. So is the non-short the true size of a Dexter? Do you deal with genetics etc in your work Kirk or just read a lot?:) Many different theories exist about the source of Dexters and the historical role of the chondrodyplasia gene. S...

I was merely trying to figure out how breeders would get their Dexters bigger without introducing another breed. Alison Kirk Boram Dexters Ignoring chondrodysplasia (a dwarfing gene) for a moment, height in animals is polygenetic, meaning that there aren't just one or two simple genes controlling h...

I was merely trying to figure out how breeders would get their Dexters bigger without introducing another breed. Alison Kirk Boram Dexters Ignoring chondrodysplasia (a dwarfing gene) for a moment, height in animals is polygenetic, meaning that there aren't just one or two simple genes controlling h...

So unless I'm mistaken (please confirm Beryl), neither the normal nor BD gene is dominant or recessive. In other words neither gene completely masks the other. So you need two normal genes for a non-short, two BD genes for a BD calf, and a mixture of a BD and a normal gene results in a short leg. C...

So unless I'm mistaken (please confirm Beryl), neither the normal nor BD gene is dominant or recessive. In other words neither gene completely masks the other. So you need two normal genes for a non-short, two BD genes for a BD calf, and a mixture of a BD and a normal gene results in a short leg. C...