. American breeders magazine. Breeding; Plant breeding; Heredity. Nabours: Possibilities of A New Breed 47 5, left) to nearly pure Brahman. However, a perfect Brahman was not seen. There were some with the full complement of hump, dewlap, sheath, ears and perhaps some other characters, but in each case some one or more characters was lacking. In one herd of forty-five to fifty Brahman-grade Durham hybrid cows that had been bred back to pure Durham, three, possibly four, of the calves appeared to present the characters of the typical Brah- man-Durham hybrids, while two or three appeared to be p
. American breeders magazine. Breeding; Plant breeding; Heredity. Nabours: Possibilities of A New Breed 47 5, left) to nearly pure Brahman. However, a perfect Brahman was not seen. There were some with the full complement of hump, dewlap, sheath, ears and perhaps some other characters, but in each case some one or more characters was lacking. In one herd of forty-five to fifty Brahman-grade Durham hybrid cows that had been bred back to pure Durham, three, possibly four, of the calves appeared to present the characters of the typical Brah- man-Durham hybrids, while two or three appeared to be pure Durham (fig. 4). The others, about forty calves, varied between these two types, most of them ranking as apparently midway, or three-fourths Durham. Thus it appears that there may be a kind of blending such as Castle found in size and bulk characters of rabbits, or as later sug-. Vir,. 6—Brahman Hybrid Cows and Calves. The cows are Fi hybrids from Brahman on high grade Hereford, and the F2 calves are from these hybrid cows bred back to Brahman. gested by the same author, "Unit character segregations may really occur, though their presence is obscured because dominance does not ; In another herd of Brahman-high grade Hereford hybrid cows bred back to Brahman, some of the calves were strictly of the hybrid type while some were mostly of the Brahman type, except for one or more characters, either the color or complete hump, droop of the ears, shape of the head, or something else. No perfect Brahman was observed among thirty-five or forty calves (Fig. 6). However, it may be noted that there are only a few, if any, that can be considered anywhere near three-fourths Brahman and one-fourth Hereford—they range from midtypes (hybrids) to pure Brahmans, excepi for a char- acter or Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may n
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