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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1584511" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>I know it takes 2 generations for the average AI bull's contributions to fit the environment. Very few can fit on the first cross but most are that way if they can even make the cut. I guess I have a hard time accepting a "home raised" pedigree where only the cows are from the source. The bulls are AI or purchased and the breeder credits themselves as a source when the herd is still basically outcrossed but called their own. Makes me wonder why they are willing to sell bulls to others and only use their own bulls as second string or only if they are from an outcross sire.</p><p></p><p>It always goes back the same question for me: what is the purpose of doing whatever you are doing: linebreeding, inbreeding, outcrossing, changing EPDs, chasing a trait, creating sale animals, buying links, ...?</p><p></p><p>There are more questions in livestock breeding that are a study of the breeders than the livestock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1584511, member: 24565"] I know it takes 2 generations for the average AI bull's contributions to fit the environment. Very few can fit on the first cross but most are that way if they can even make the cut. I guess I have a hard time accepting a "home raised" pedigree where only the cows are from the source. The bulls are AI or purchased and the breeder credits themselves as a source when the herd is still basically outcrossed but called their own. Makes me wonder why they are willing to sell bulls to others and only use their own bulls as second string or only if they are from an outcross sire. It always goes back the same question for me: what is the purpose of doing whatever you are doing: linebreeding, inbreeding, outcrossing, changing EPDs, chasing a trait, creating sale animals, buying links, ...? There are more questions in livestock breeding that are a study of the breeders than the livestock. [/QUOTE]
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