HORNS ARE RECESSIVE

Everyone`s talking about recessive genes with haplotypes and BY being the newest of the bunch.
They are going to find more recessives, perhaps many more, and in reality there are probably no animals that exist without some sort of recessive.
Would the breed be better off without Oman, Bolton, Durham , or Snowman? If we don`t learn to live with them and breed around them then what?
It is understood that doubling up negative recessives is not a good idea but there is one recessive that farms are doubling up on every day without even so much as a thought.
HORNS – Yes horns are a recessive gene. The only recessive gene that actually requires labor, causes some sort of pain to remove, and is genuinely disliked by everyone.
Why isn`t anyone talking about this recessive?
If people want horns so bad, why take them off?
HORNS are a recessive you can breed out by using bulls that carry the DOMINANT polled gene.
With a growing community of consumers that perhaps know nothing about dairy farms but want absolute transparency in what is happening to the animals on them, its time to be proactive.
With all the concerns about animal welfare and the fact everyone is instantly connected to the power of social media if you believe there are more important things to breed for chances are you are not the person responsible for the dehorning of calves on your farm.
To talk about recessives is all well and good but maybe its time we started talking about breeding around the horned recessive to.

Roy