Calico Calf?
 

I have never seen this in cattle before and so far I have found no one else that has either. I do have an inquiry pending with a coat color geneticist. Cattle in my experience do not come in a 3 color spotting pattern with the exception of Normandy but then their color is black white and red. There is no Normany blood in my herd. While the tan/orange spots are few they are still there on his one hind leg. This is our first calf of the year a bull who came early and breech and we pulled him out. He is a Simmental, Maine-Anjou, Angus, Chianina crossbred.

*Chianti* There is wine in that thar Bull

I thought it was like a Chia-pet.

The Chianina (pronounced kee-a-nee-na) may well be one of the oldest breeds of cattle in existence. They were praised by the Georgic poets, Columella and Vergil, and were the models for Roman sculptures.

The breed originated primarily in the west central part of Italy and was found in a wide variety of environmental conditions. Because of this, the cattle vary in size and type from region to region. The largest representatives of the breed, from the plains of Arezzo and Siena, have supplied most of the foundation stock that has been used in the United States and Canada. The name comes from the Chiana Valley in the province of Tuscany in Central Italy.


http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/c...nina-web-1.jpg

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/chianina/

I was looking at that picture and I couldn't decide if it is as huge a cow as it looks there. I took the fence into consideration, looked at it this way and that, and now I see why it looked a bit like a huge cow and also like a normal cow, all in one.

I love it. I like cows. :)

They are the largest breed of beef cattle on Earth. Fullblood Chianina can be very large. They can weigh 4,000 lbs and be taller than 6 feet at the withers.

I had no idea. That is really cool.

If you meant the first picture Shawnee that is a baby he weighs about 115 lbs and he is only 10% Chianina. =)

Oh, I knew that. lol

And here I always thought the Romans were just really bad at drawing cattle. Turns out their cattle really were that funny-looking!

The only Anjou I ever heard of was the pear.

He looks very tasty...er...cute.

Squiggy !!!

My dad's hereford cross had a calf to a brahman bull and it's got three colours. White and tan from the hereford, and some black from the brahman.

He might not be alive still now though. I think he was going to be a vealer because half brahman meat can be pretty tough.

The Maine-Anjou breed originated in the northwestern part of France. This area is excellent for beef production as it has both grassland and tillable land.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the cattle in this region were large, well-muscled animals with light red coats spotted with white. These cattle were known as he Mancelle breed. In addition to their size and muscling, the Mancelle had a reputation for their easy fattening. Leclere -Thouin, an agriculturalist, wrote in 1843 that on the community pastures of the Auge Valley, the Mancelle "were the last to be put onto the grass, but were the first to be picked out to go to the markets in the capital city".

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/c...njou-web-1.jpg

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/maineanjou/

Ahh, Shawnee, I'm pretty sure that, strictly speaking, that is not a "cow". Check the balls on that behemoth! Holy moly!