Actually there SHOULD, originally herefords had heavy heavy molting on their bodies(a lot of white) ironically what you showed as "right" wouldn't pass in a show ring as a hereford should have a stripe from their shoulders to about two inches back from their head. That calf however is a gorgeous baby and is showing some of his ancestors breeding. In other words, he is probably from older lines, definitely some of the old horned lines. I have two bulls that have maxed out white actually that is very similar to this. They are also purebred under the American horned hereford association. I do understand your confusion though but yeah thats pure 100% hereford.
Sorry for War&Peace Pt.2. We had up to a few hundred regular horned Hereford at a time over a few generations here on the farm, in the fields all year round. They were well into their British Hereford Association gubbins, with the signage and letterheads etc.. The higher price for the product 'had nothing to do with the decision' lol. You'd think it was 'By appointment of Her Majesty..'. Grandad wasn't tall so he wasn't interested in anything taller than a Hereford, they'd tried dairy cows but since they were in the fields all day he got fed up moving them back and forth for "processing". He was born before the great war so 'purity' sat well on his Germanic soul. Our neighbours had sheep and pigs, there were no bulls to jump over and mix the pot. Granny would sleep out with them in the forest during calving and used to say that sometimes heifers 1st or more often the 4th or 5th calf a cow had, could be a "stray" - with a stray stripe or shoulder spot beyond the normal and 'proper' shoulder stripe. [Gr]anecdotal but with thousands of data points going back to the 50s and 60s and photos of every calf for many years to fall back on, it's more than just a 'she said'. I have a vivid memory as a kid, having to spend the night in the barn with a newborn that was rejected by an older mother - last season before becoming Granny's pet and going off to the meadow (not a euphemism). Anyway - she'd clearly run out of ink and the little fella was noticeably lighter than the parents, the rest of the herd and his now long gone siblings. Had a similar stripe to this guy in the video, just slightly further forward at the shoulder and not quite reaching down to his belly but both sides and culminating around the same place. Perhaps not quite those front leg stockings but still, the bootsies. Bucket fed the little blighter his milk for months. By the time he was 3 years old he was almost the same colour as the rest, he just didn't fade as quickly in the sun. Still nuzzled up like a Fiat sized puppy. I'm 42 and still have the bucket feeder in the shed. Our only rule - no shoulder stripe, off on the first suitable delivery. Now ideally, preference wise - a shoulder stripe that tapers, has a couple of dots and then a white patch to highlight the base of the horns bit of white on the forehead so we can see when he's been getting his head in the ground and chuckle but white boots and belly - I need to be able to comment about their clean boots.
@@AgWithKatieMitrowski possible. That or a SERIOUS genetic throwback to before the Hereford standard was set in stone. Pretty little fellow in any case! Half a flashy team of yoke oxen. Or a damned fine steak, either way.
This video was from 2022- I just posted it because I had never posted it on RU-vid. We did DNA verification on both sire and dam and both were verified to be true. It's just a blip in coloring- which I think was caused by the MSU revolution genetics, based on my search.
