A3B*Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 15,1985
Red and White Holsteins
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and whites have grown to be the "grade up” program that allows
dominant breed. Not only is the farmers to begin with a grade cow
European market hungry to and produce a purebred in two
acquire American Holstein generations. It also allows cross
bloodlines; _it is eager to acquire breeding and permits upgrading of
red and whites from quality tbe herd to registration in three
American stock. generations from cross-breeding.
“Red and whites have some Carpenter points out that the
catching up to do, Specht says. He grade up program is bringing
acknowledges that generally they better bulls onto the market
are not up to snuff with black and already. “Two of the best red and
whites except on the best farms, white bulls today,” she says, “are
Not only do red and white breeders grade ups, E-B Thor Red and his
have to undo 80 years of prejudice half-brother, E-B Tonto Cavalier,
in the U.S. view. They also have to both at ABS.”
recoup 80 years of lost breed
development time.
Ironically, the U.S. farmer may
have helped bring the red and
white Holstein along farther by his
prejudice. “If a farmer took a red
calf from a good cow, he probably
kept her on as grade stock, while
he destroyed any red calves from
average cows,” Specht explains.
“That means the reds that sur
vived represented the best
breeding.”
Still, red breeding is lagging
behind. “There just aren’t enough
good red bulls,” Lapp says as he
reviews his list of 22 red or red
factor bulls he’s used.
Breeder Dennis Wolff of
Millville, Columbia County,
agrees. “Right now red and white
breeders are swimming upstream.
There’s no good red bull that’s
strong on production, test, and
type at the same time. Until there
is, the breeding is going to be
limited.” Wolff points to Hanover
Hill Triple Threat and Cold Spring
Elevation Fagin, both of which
dropped proof eventually but have
been favored bulls. “The
bloodlines have had to come out of
Canada, and they’re just not as
good as the U.S. on production.
They have some catching up to
do.”
The Red and White Association
is optimistic about the possibilities
of catching up soon. It offers a
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The Association also registers
black and white Holsteins for
dairymen trying to build a
pedigree, but moreso it encourages
farmers to double register their
cows with the Holstem-Fnesian
Association, to promote more red
breeding.
The market for red and white
Holsteins may be the best in
centive of all. Wolff points out that
Clar-Dot Charlie Berry Red, the
cow he bought from Beiler,
although typed Very Good"( 85) and
a strong producer is not among the
top group of U.S. cows. But she has
done well on an embryo tran
splantation program, and he has
been very successful in sales of her
eggs to Hungary. “They’re eager
to get a hold of good U.S. cows that
are red.”
Europeans may become even
more interested in the next several
years. A recent international study
commissioned by the shorthorn
breeders in Europe identified the
U.S. red and white Holstein as the
best cow to use for improving
breed and bloodlines.
Wayne Lapp is glad to see the
barriers against red and whites
coming down. He recalls a
youngster who used one of his cows
as a 4-H project not long ago. “The
kid did great. He won the local
shows and the regional, everything
he could. But when it came time to
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the Holstein Association. Lapp
shakes his head in disgust at the
memory. “That was just plain
meanness. They would have found
any reason to keep that boy and
that red and white cow out of the
show. Attitudes like that are going
to hold farmers apart instead of
bringing us together to improve
the breed.”
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