A TRUE RED POLL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 25

A TRUE RED POLL

POINTS OUTLINED Members of the Red Poll Cattle Society of Great Britain have agreed to alter the standard description of their breed to the following: Characteristics and Form Colour. —Blood red, deep red for preference; tip of tail and udder may be white. Head.—Must be poll, i.e., not artificially polled, and without horns, slugs or abortive horns. Nose.—White. Hips.—Evenly rounded, not prominent. Objections Any extension of white in front of the udder; any white hairs on a bull, except on tip of tail; or cloudy nose or one with black or blue spots. Disqualifications Any horns, slugs or abortive horns; any signs of artificial polling; a black or blue nose; any white except on the tip of the tail, the udder, or for a short way under the body immediately in continuation of the udder; and any colour other than red. Slugs are horny substances adhering to the skin over the seat of natural horns, free from any attachment to the skull and consequently as movable as any portion of the skin. Abortive horns are horny substances attached to the skull but more or less undeveloped as horns.