Colour & Pattern
It is important to understand how Speckle Park colour patterns work in order to achieve your breeding goals. While some breeders are mostly interested in producing speckled cattle others want to inject Speckle Parks’ notorious hybrid vigour while retaining predominantly black herds. For example, when a solid black Speckle Park bull is joined with 100% purebred Angus cows the resulting calves will be predominately solid black. Another example is when Angus cows are joined to a While Speckle Park bull the resulting calves will be predominately speckled.
Speckle Park cattle have four distinct colour patterns; speckled, leopard, white and solid black. The speckle and leopard colour patterns are genetically the same except for varying degrees of spotting. Some Speckle Park cattle can produce red colour patterns if both parents carry the recessive red gene.
Please remember when dealing with nature individual results may vary. This is to be used as a guide only.
Speckled
Speckled animals are primarily black with a white top and underline featuring speckled hips. These animals are known to have black or black roan faces.
Leopard
Predominantly white with black spots scattered across the sides of the animal. The black spots are condensed around the neckline and scattered across the body.
White Pointed
White pointed animals are predominately white with black points. These animals are white on the body and face, featuring black ears, nose, muzzle, hooves, teats and eyes.
Black
Black animals are solid black. Please refer to the diagram below to understand how Speckle Park colour patterns work in order to achieve your breeding goals.
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