Post by jamshundred on Mar 22, 2015 21:14:30 GMT
Correction:
While there were NO POLLED BULLS on the farm that bred Godstone Esmeralda in 1983 and the only breeding bull was Woodmagic Pine Martin, it looks like there was a POLLED FEMALE on that farm. Appendix B cow, Finney Jubilee, was heterozygous polled and lived on the Godstone Farm with Broadridge Dawn (the non-polled dam of record for Godstone Esmeralda). Finney Jubilee's dam was Vycanny Orphan Annie, A239, a polled Appendix A Dexter, that was sired by a registered polled Dairy Shorthorn bull, Swinsongrange Challenger, #0222549.
Godstone Esmeralda was VERY Woodmagic dexter appearing and was nearly 100% certainly sired by Woodmagic Pine Martin...
But it could be possible that Godstone Esmeralda was out of the polled Appendix B cow, Finney Jubilee, B182.
At the Godstone herd, they had three black Dexter heifers, all sired by Woodmagic Pine Martin, born within 6 days in May 1984:
C242 Godstone Emily F 11/MAY/1984
F10532 Godstone Effie F 07/MAY/1984
F10531 Godstone Esmeralda F 05/MAY/1984
The dam of record for Godstone Esmeralda, F10531, is Broadridge Dawn, F09211, a black 1977 cow. The dam of record for Godstone Emily, C242, is Finney Jubilee, B182 (polled)
While there were NO POLLED BULLS on the farm that bred Godstone Esmeralda in 1983 and the only breeding bull was Woodmagic Pine Martin, it looks like there was a POLLED FEMALE on that farm. Appendix B cow, Finney Jubilee, was heterozygous polled and lived on the Godstone Farm with Broadridge Dawn (the non-polled dam of record for Godstone Esmeralda). Finney Jubilee's dam was Vycanny Orphan Annie, A239, a polled Appendix A Dexter, that was sired by a registered polled Dairy Shorthorn bull, Swinsongrange Challenger, #0222549.
Godstone Esmeralda was VERY Woodmagic dexter appearing and was nearly 100% certainly sired by Woodmagic Pine Martin...
But it could be possible that Godstone Esmeralda was out of the polled Appendix B cow, Finney Jubilee, B182.
At the Godstone herd, they had three black Dexter heifers, all sired by Woodmagic Pine Martin, born within 6 days in May 1984:
C242 Godstone Emily F 11/MAY/1984
F10532 Godstone Effie F 07/MAY/1984
F10531 Godstone Esmeralda F 05/MAY/1984
The dam of record for Godstone Esmeralda, F10531, is Broadridge Dawn, F09211, a black 1977 cow. The dam of record for Godstone Emily, C242, is Finney Jubilee, B182 (polled)
By having three black heifers born in the same week at the Godstone herd, all sired by the same bull (Woodmagic Pine Martin), it would have been very easy to mix them up if they weren't tagged as soon as they were born. Since all three dams calved in the same week, it would have been very likely that they were put into the same area, so the opportunity for the cows to switch calves, even without the owner knowing, was a real possibility.
The reason that Godstone Esmeralda was Dexter size and of Dexter character was because she would have been an Appendix C cow, being the daughter of Finney Jubilee, an Appendix B cow and by a purebred Dexter bull (Woodmagic Pine Martin).
So take your pick.... Either Godstone Esmeralda's polledness was due to a fresh mutation, or she was the daughter of the polled cow Finney Jubilee, and was switched at birth... I'm leaning toward the latter... the chance of a polled mutation is perhaps 1 in 20,000.... the chance of two black calves born within days of each other getting mixed up might be 1 in 50.