Willow Garden Xavier, a dun bull calf out of Dreamland Samson and Aldebaran Hollis got GREAT news today. His dam is a PHA carrier ... and had she passed it on to him, then he'd have been in-eligible for registration. In that case, he'd have become 'pink veal' at 16 weeks of age, or been neutered and then butchered as a two year old. I'n not sure which fate would have been the worst!
But ... his test results came back 'PHF/PFD' ... which means free of regular PHA as well as free of the Dexter version. So now, he will be retained for evaluation, with the hope being that we can work him into our breeding program to add more dun to our polled lines.
Life is good ... but it is ESPECIALLY good for Xavier today ... :-)
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