Help with color results

[Dahdo]

Color Gurus--can someone put up a picture of a brindle Dexter? From what I am reading I think the sire of my heifers, Belle Fourche Frasier, might be brindle. Here is a picture www.dextercattle.org/pedigreedb/ponyweb.cgi?horse=016495&HorseName=frasier&Page=1&Sort=0

Is he brindle?

[legendrockranch]

Hi Davemorgan,

Frasier is not brindled. I have a few of Frasiers offspring myself. Wrangler is one of his sons that I have been using this year as one of my herd sires. None of them are brindled.

Barb

[legendrockranch]

Dave, if you look at the picture on page 1 of this thread that Rocking E6 posted of his bull. You will notice that there are black stripes going vertically down the bull. That's brindle.

In some crossbred bred animals they call them F1 Tigerstripes because of the vertical stripes.

OK just wanted to edit this post so you didn't think I meant if an animal has stripes it's a cross. As Patti had mentioned earlier the brindle is an ancient color pattern.

[kansasdexters]

Here is link to a site that has photos of the color patterns expressed in Icelandic cows, including the brindle pattern: www.icelandichorse.is/cows.html

Icelandic cattle were never selected for a specific color or pattern, so they express many different color combinations and patterns. The cattle that were taken by the Vikings to Iceland over 1,000 years ago, carried the genes for all of these colors and patterns. By not selecting for or against certain colors or patterns, the Icelandic cattle owners and breeders down through the centuries have allowed these color genetics to remain in their herds.

Patti