The video shows three cows and one young bull. I suspect that the bull is one of the two (Sayaguesa x Chianina) x (Sayaguesa x Watussi) bulls EDIT: It is the (Sayaguesa x Grey) x (Sayaguesa x Watussi) and the cows are most certainly Maremmana x Sayaguesa EDIT: Plus one Tauros cattle cows. That means the offspring will be both parentally and maternally a cross, which is good because that is where the real breeding starts. The offspring will have much Sayaguesa influence, which is good as well, plus, with luck, genes for large and long horns (Watussi and Maremmana), maybe the little bit Chianina will also help to achieve a large size. The young bull resembles his father Alvarez (Sayaguesa x Watussi) in the video. I am looking forward to see what his horns are going to be like as much as his final body size.
Do you have a link to the film?
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DeleteThe girls seem to be the same animals presented in this tweet from 2021: https://twitter.com/auerrind/status/1415615344748732425?cxt=HHwWkoC5pfypo6UnAAAA They've grown up beautifully. I seem to remember reading about plans for testing the Tauros cow's ancestry, but Maremmana x Sayaguesa seems very plausible. It's a little sad that the output of publicly available information on the project has dropped off significantly for the last couple of years. We have reached a point in the project's development, where not all animals are known to us by name and it's not entirely clear which animals have dropped out. I would love to see a genealogy and updated breeding plan by now. Still hoping for the annual report. ó-ò
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