There wouldn't be any offspring. A cow cannot mate with a cow to get a calf. You must mate a cow with a BULL to get a calf.
So, if the question were reWorded to: "What would the offspring be if a roan cow was crossed with a roan bull?" or vice versa, then we could answer it this way:
Roan colouration in Shorthorns is a codominant trait, which means that one allele is not dominant nor recessive over another. So, the resulting offspring of a roan cross would be a mix of red calves, white calves, and roan calves.
The Punnet Square reveals the probability of one of three coat colours occurring in the subsequent cross:
Let R = red and W = white and RW = roan.
RW bull x RW cow gives us:
1 RR
2 RW
1 WW
In other Words, there's a 25% chance that the resulting calf would be red, a 50% chance that the resulting calf would be roan, and a 25% chance that the calf could be white.
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