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From the beginning, the focus of
our lives has been an interest in useful animals and in breeding
individuals which would match and surpass the requirements of their breed
standards and intended uses.
Today's modern cow has become an oversized
crossbred mongrel, incapable of subsisting and reproducing on grass as
nature intended. The original (old-time) Angus was a much smaller,
moderately sized animal, whose efficient conversion of grass to meat is
legendary and equaled only by its early maturity and breeding efficiency.
The Lowline is now the purest source of these golden genetics available to
present day cattlemen and gourmet beef fanciers.
Lowline genetics can
reshape our cowherds and help reclaim the potency and efficiency necessary
to build a self-sustaining grassfed beef industry. Lowline conformation
and inherent "black gold genetics" for tenderness and marbling enable us to
raise the kind of quality which competes successfully in all venues.
Recent births of fullblood red Lowlines in Australia have produced a flood
of inquiries on how to successfully breed for red coat color
in our cattle, since red cattle are less affected by flies and heat.
First of all, to produce a red calf from two black parents requires that
both parents are red carriers (Heterozygous Blacks). The best explanation
I've seen of how to accomplish such color breeding is found on the
GenMark website
and copied here...
Mating a Homozygous Black animal to a Homozygous Black animal
..will
always produce Homozygous Black offspring.
Mating a Homozygous Black animal to a Red Carrier will produce:
50% Homozygous Black offspring
50% Red Carrier offspring
Mating a Homozygous Black animal to a Homozygous Red animal
..will
always produce Red Carrier offspring
Mating a Red Carrier animal to a Red Carrier animal will produce:
25% Homozygous Black offspring
50% Red Carrier offspring
25% Homozygous Red animals
Mating a Homozygous Red animal to a Homozygous Red animal will
.always produce Homozygous Red offspring.
If you are a beef breeder who has Wildtype in your herd and are
..interested
..in breeding Homozygous Black animals, simply treat your
..Heterozygous.Black/Wildtype
animals as Red Carriers in the above
..mating schemes.
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More about RED Lowlines can be found on the
Australian
website of
Vitulus Lowlines
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Developed
in Australia at the Trangie Research Center in a research project
designed to provide quality breeding stock for the NSW cattle industry,
the breeding experiment lasted from 1929 to 1970. From 1974 to 1993,
another project was begun to define whether large or small animals had the
most efficient conversion rates of grass into meat.
The Trangie herd was then
dispersed at auction in 1993 and the first imports found their way into
the US in 1998, resulting in the formation of a US Lowline registry based
in Kansas City, MO. All fullbloods registered are DNA tested and must
trace to the original Trangie herd to preserve purity of the
lines.
Halfblood and Percentage
Lowlines have their own separate herd book, and American Purebred animals
(7/8 and above) are now being registered.
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