A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 29,1980
Letters To
The Editor
Dear Editor,
After reading the ' Ask the
VMD” column in your
November 8,1980 issue, I felt
compelled to write you to
correct some incorrect
statements When asked
about the inheritance of the
grey color in horses, Dr
Edgar Sheaffer came up
with some very fancy and
correct figures concerning
the action of recessive
genes The only problem is,
according to everything I
have read, been taught, or
have learned through six
years of breeding a
heterozygous grey stallion,
the greying gene is totally
dominant over every other
coat color In order to be
grey, either at birth (which
is quite rare), or begin
turning grey with the
shedding of the original foal
coat, a foal must have a grey
parent The greying gene
cannot be carried by a horse
(genotype) without the
actual coat color being grey
(phenotype).
Dr Sheaffer also states
that ' most” foals from a
Farm Calendar
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homozygous parent (one
who carries both possible
grej mg genes) are grey
This is also incorrect, for
with grey being dominant, a
homozygous grey parent can
produce only grey offspring,
and must itself have been
produced by two grey
parents
The correct answer to your
reader’s question about what
combination will give the
best possibilities of having a
grey foal is this breed your
mare (of any color) to a
homozygous grey (very
rare) stallion, or vice versa
You must get a grey foal
The next best possibility
(75% chance) is to breed a
heterozygous grey mare to a
heterozygous grey stallion
The major fact is this,
however from the com
bination of any grey parent,
and a non-grey parent, the
foal has a 50% chance of
being grey It all depends on
whether or not it inherits a
grey gene from the grey
parent
Patricia L. Goodman
R 5 West Chester
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BY JANE BRESEE
Staff Correspondent
ULSTER Russell Jones
of Warren Center, president
of the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association, briefly
reviewed the progress of the
state organization since he
has been a member.
He spoke at the annual
meeting and banquet of the
Bradford County Holstein
Club held last Wednesday in
Ulster, Bradford County.
Jones predictions for the
future ot the Association
included a Holstein Show to
be held in conjunction with
the Ag Progress Days at
Penn State, and an increase
in the overseas export of
frozen Holstein calf em
bryos
Introduced by Richard
Kingsley, president of the
Bradford County Holstein
Club, Jones said he had been
a member of the local club
for over 20 years, most of the
tune as a director He has
served as state director for
the past eleven years,
having been on the executive
board, first as vice
president, and now as
president
He said he feels his job as
president was part of his
service to his fellow man and
that he had been called to do
it Although it was hard, he
had made hundreds of
friends and had done what he
could to represent Bradford
County well, he said
Jones his
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