Happy New Year! This blog has not gotten much attention over the holidays, but I'll try to do a better job now that the festivities are behind us.
That's a photo of Bess and Raisin from last summer. Why am I sharing this now? Because Bess (Shaw's 18) is homozygous polled! UC Davis is now offering a test for polledness in Dexters, so we know this to be true. I did a little happy dance upon getting the report. We love Bess. And now we love her more.
Polled Test Results for Bess(BCCxxxx):
Polled Result:
Pc/Pc - 2 copies of the Polled-Celtic molecular marker, animal is polled and all offspring will be polled.
A little over half our herd is horned; several of our polled girls have horned offspring, so we know that they can't be homozygous. Only a very small handful have the potential. We were curious about the new test - what the results looked like, how fast we could get results, and so forth. The whole experience was a positive one - and from tail hairs no less!
This one little test can open a whole set of new doors in terms of breeding decisions. Happy New Year indeed!
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