Sadly, I have been forbidden the Highland Giant Land Chicken. I keep trying though, because they look like little teddy bears when they are babies! I am thinking about attempting to invoke some sort of Cultural Rights Movement, or an argument based on my Ancestral heritage, but as the Forbidding party is also of similar descent I have made little headway on this front. Sigh. Their arguments against consist of 1: Horns are scary and 2: they are a smaller and far more slow growing Beef Cattle Breed. And yet this genetic anomaly cropped up this year
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I say this is an anomaly because we have a polled pure bred red Hereford herd primarily, with 3 recent “Hereford” additions of (very) questionable breeding, one Short Horn/red Angus x, and two Hereford black angus x. Our black Angus bull also definitely carries some Red Angus genes. Black is a dominant coat colour, and polled (hornless) is also a dominant gene, as is the white face of the Herefords. I really wish I had been doing the cows last year, as then We would know who the mother of this little guy is. But alas, Family Drama. In short our herd should all have black coats (nope) not have any horns (

) and should all have white faces (got this one mostly right at least)