"Breeding-back" aims to restore or immitate extinct animals by selective breeding. This blog provides general information, the facts behind myths and news from various projects.
Sunday, 14 April 2019
Auerrind herd at Groß-Rohrheim
Two days ago, a couple of new recent photos of the Auerrind herd at Groß-Rohrheim, Germany, were published on the Auerrind Project's blog:
The white individual in the background is a pure Chianina cow, the two next to it are two Sayaguesa x Chianina (the blogpost doesn't specify the sex, but they might both be female). In the front at the left, there is the Sayaguesa x Grey cattle cow plus the Watussi x Maremmana heifer. The Sayaguesa x Chianina individuals seem to have a quite well-shaped anatomy and good size, I am looking forward to see them as adults, and especially F2 of this generation.
This is the Watussi x Maremmana heifer. The colour seems to be perfect (phenotypically, it surely is heterozygous for recessive colour dilution genes), the horns are probably going to develop a nice volume. The curvature most likely will be rather straight and upright, but this is to be expected from this combination and can be fixed in later generations. A (Watussi x Maremmana) x (Sayaguesa x Chianina) would be tempting, more efficiently in the form of an F2 x F2 combination. It is nice to see that the Auerrind project is still progressing well, especially since the first Chianina xWatussi individual was born recently.
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