Charolais bull question?

Question

we have a baby charolais bull. he is about 4 to 5 weeks old and i just wanted to know if he is going to have horns when he gets older

Answer 1

Most Charolais bull are polled - meaning they do not develop horns but it all depends on their genetic makeup. 1Homozygous for the polled condition refers to a bull carrying two copies of the polled gene. Because the polled condition is a dominant trait, some polled bulls can be heterozygous and carry one copy of the polled gene and one copy of the horned gene. Heterozygous polled bulls will on average pass on the horned gene to half of their progeny. If horned cows were mated to a polled bull with the heterozygous condition, on average we would expect 50% of the calves to be horned. Scurs, which are horn-like, are controlled by a different set of genes and can occur on polled bulls.