Great question, Jeffrey Brown! Since Creatures is still just getting off the ground, I think the even more important question is whether these types of cattle would be appealing to the broader hobby farmer market. Although I think more buyers are looking for horned cattle, there are quite a few breeders in the community who have some polled individuals for exactly this reason.

You might be even more successful if you did the crossing with white dexters, white parks, or white galloways, to get the "Highpark" look which is very popular.

Would love to know what Yvonnda Agent and Rickee Miller think since they also have a variety of crosses!

We have had a fair number of people asking for polled cattle. We have two highpark cows that are heterozygous polled. Our heifer calf is polled. The other one had a bull calf - we have to pull hairs on him yet, but I think he may be polled😌

Your solid color first generation HiDex is not going to have a big appeal. Your white dexter crosses will at least have color that will be interesting to some buyers but like 1st generation highparks there is still work to do to get “the look”. It takes several generations and years to achieve the hair and smaller stature. If it’s something you’re passionate about you should do it knowing it’ll take you 3 generations to get to 87.5% and get some decent hair. Breeding white Galloway and highland together will achieve the desired hair quicker. My friend Brooke Cunningham - Ancient Oaks Farm LLC specializes in polled high % highparks. She would be excellent to talk to as well. We have our first 87.5% highpark calf this year and looking forward to seeing her hair development. We have 2 first generation girls and a 2nd generation horned girl. I personally don’t know how to continue to breed more and more highland into anything and still stay polled but Brooke will. I hope that helps. Long story short, you’ll need to be 3 generations in to achieve an animal that’s appealing to the better breeding programs.

Very well said Yvonnda Agent. The solid color highparks that we have had sell much better when polled- they are 75% highland- next year we will be breeding our F2 polled highpark to our black highland bull next summer and I am excited to see what we get! We are loving seeing what pops out- I love the genetics end of things☺️

Thanks everyone for your input. I posted this response earlier and got a bit ahead of myself thinking Petunia is an 87.5/12.5 High-Dex when her offspring will be.