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Inheritance of Jersey Colors

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

ABSTRACT

During the past seven years I have had charge of the Jersey herd at the Kentucky Experiment Station, where Prof. M. A. Scovell left it at the time of his death in 1912. That Dr. Scovell had established a most excellent herd is well known to all persons interested in Jersey cattle. During the past several years I have made a close study of the inheritance of coat, tongue and switch colors among our calves, to see how the colors are passed from parents to offspring. As calves are often produced in our herd that are broken in color, that come from solid colored ancestry for generations, I begun to wonder if broken color is a recessive characteristic, that may be carried without appearing for generations, submerged by the dominant characteristic—solid color. If it behaves as a recessive, then when two recessives are mated together (a broken colored bull and cow), a broken colored calf should result.