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: 
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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. 
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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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