Colour in Cattle

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 February 1890, Page 3

Colour in Cattle

A well-known breeder of Herefords writes us : — In your paper of last week you quote several instances showing the colour of animals to be affected by circumstances. I can gi ve you an instance very similar to the one mentioned." A few years since a friend of mine bought with some others a heifer with a very wide stripe all along her back, nearly all her tail being white* I thought her ao good a one that I bought her to feed for a leading fat stock show, and kept her j for some tia*^ with a dark red heifer that had scarcely any white at all, except the face and mane, which I Was getting up for the summer shows. She was in calf. These two only were in the place, with rails between Each took a second prize, one at the principal summer show and" the other at principal fat- stock show, but, when the breeding heifer calved, her calf was marked almost precisely the same as the fat heifer, although on the dam's side tkere was scarcely any white, and all her family and the bull were marked with just the usual Hereford colour. — London Live Stock Journal.