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What is the difference between a Hereford and a Polled Hereford?
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∙ 14y ago
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.
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What breeds of cows are polled?
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.
What are facts about the polled hereford?
In the United States a Polled Hereford strain was developed around 1900 by selecting naturally hornless registered Herefords. The number of Polled Herefords has increased rapidly; herds are found throughout the United States, including Hawaii, and the strain has been widely exported.
What us states produce polled Hereford cattle?
All of the lower 48 would produce Polled Herefords. It just takes a bit of looking and researching to find any breeders that do have such animals.
What kind of horns do hereford bulls have?
The same kind of horns that any other bovine (cow or bull) has. But if it's to describe the shape, they are short and curved, often made to curve down and towards the head of the animal to minimize risk of injuring other bulls and cows or the handlers.
What is the average birth weight of a Hereford calf?
The average birthweight of a Hereford calf is around 45 to 80 lbs, depending on the genetics influenced by the dam and sire of that calf. This is for both horned and polled cattle of this breed.
Which cattle did Warren Gammon begin breeding because he felt dehorning was cruel?
He started developing Polled Herefords, which are a hornless mutation from Horned Hereford cattle.
Did Bobby Hull raise Champion Hereford cattle?
Maybe not Champion Herefords, but it does say in several articles that he raised (and probably still does) Polled Herefords on his ranch in Ontario.
What has the author Orville Kenneth Sweet written?
Orville Kenneth Sweet has written: 'Birth of a breed' -- subject(s): Beef cattle, Breeding, History, Polled Hereford cattle
When was Hereford Cathedral built?
Hereford Cathedral was constructed between 1110-c.1250.
How many calves do polled hereford cows have?
Any cow can have a calf per year, usually cows will be able to breed and produce calves until they are 7-10 years of age.
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.
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