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Calves were born red and white and registered as such, but over the first six months of age turned black or mostly black with some reddish hairs down the backline, around the muzzle and at the poll. The hair coat colour change became known as Black/Red and sometimes as Telstar/Red, since the condition appeared in calves sired by Roybrook Telstar.
The Droimeann cow (Irish pronunciation: [ˈd̪ˠɾˠɪmʲən̪ˠ], literally "white-backed") is an endangered breed of cattle unique to Ireland. [1] It was officially recognised as a rare native breed on 8 January 2020 following DNA profiling which showed that it was genetically distinct from other breeds. [2]
A British White in England. The British White has shortish white hair, and has dark points – usually black, but sometimes red. The coloured points include the ears, feet, eyelids, nose and often even teats. It is naturally polled (hornless), medium-sized and compactly built. There may be some coloured spots on the body fur, and the skin ...
A horned cow The coat may be black-and-white A polled bull. The Norwegian Red or Norsk Rødt Fe [4]: 509 is a Norwegian breed of dairy cattle.It was formed in 1961 through successive mergers of various traditional and regional breeds.
An extreme pale form of the colour-sided pattern is the colour-pointed or 'white park' pattern, seen for example in the White Park, the British White and in some Irish Moiled, where the darker colour is restricted to the ears, nose and feet, leaving most of the animal white. [2]: 127
In the 1950s, the breed enjoyed much success because the beef market demanded low input (feed) cattle with high quality meat. However, the BSE crisis (or mad cow disease) caused an export ban in 1990, although there were no cases of BSE found in Galloway cattle. This created a fear associated with cattle, so breed numbers declined.
The Black Baldy is reared for beef. [3]: 256 Cows may be mated to a bull of a European beef breed, to produce a heavier, better-muscled and faster-growing calf. [2]: 190 In Britain and Ireland a similarly-marked cross-breed, the Black Hereford, results from crossing Hereford bulls on predominantly black-coloured dairy cows. [citation needed]