Cattle Colour Genetics: MISTAKE

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

MISTAKE

Wow, thanks to the person who pointed out this mistake. It is a serious one!!

In the Polled,Horned and Scurred post, I made a major Mistake under the Scurred description. It is now fixed!!

The mistake was with the Scurred females

A ScSc = Homozygous Animal is SCURRED, not horned as I had written!!
A Scsc = Heterozygous animal is polled
A scsc = Homozygous animal is polled

So again, thank you very much to the person who pointed this out. I know that this will have caused confusion, and I am very sorry for that!!

Randi

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