cow breeds by color
Many breeds of beef cattle have a fixed color pattern for. that breed because selection has been placed on the color. to maintain these characteristics. For example, all Hereford. cattle have a red body color with a white face, all Charolais are. white, and all Red Poll are red. However, other breeds may.
Apparently, a number of Angus and Hereford cattle carry brindle which is masked by their coloring (the brown gene is not present in these breeds). So, in our case, the black 3/4 Angus cow undoubtedly carried the brindle gene, and the bull had one gene for the brown coloring and one for red. That's clear enough.
Meet the Brown Swiss cow! Many dairy historians consider the breed to be the oldest of all the types of milk cows, or dairy breeds. Characteristics: The Brown Swiss cow has a gray-brown coloring. She is large in size, weighing about 1,500 pounds in maturity.