Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
Looking for suggestions on calves
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1823405" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>If this is the case, I would sell the bull, the cow, AND ALL the progeny from either the cow or the bull that you have. You will be better off in the long run.</p><p></p><p>Doesn't matter how good the progeny are. I learned the hard way about this, kinda. I had a simulated herd in a computer program while I was working on my BS degree. I figured out after the third generation that one of my bulls had a 'genetic mistake' that was problematic so I got rid of him but kept his progeny because they had great phenotypic characteristics. On generation 5 or 6 I lost 5 calves out of 47 due to this genetic defect I thought wouldn't be a problem. 10% of the calf crop was a problem. It wasn't real life so my pocket book was fine, and so was my grade (not docked for the 'mistake' as my reasoning was sound) but I learned real quick genetics is kinda like playing with fire. If you don't respect it. it WILL burn you!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1823405, member: 43196"] If this is the case, I would sell the bull, the cow, AND ALL the progeny from either the cow or the bull that you have. You will be better off in the long run. Doesn't matter how good the progeny are. I learned the hard way about this, kinda. I had a simulated herd in a computer program while I was working on my BS degree. I figured out after the third generation that one of my bulls had a 'genetic mistake' that was problematic so I got rid of him but kept his progeny because they had great phenotypic characteristics. On generation 5 or 6 I lost 5 calves out of 47 due to this genetic defect I thought wouldn't be a problem. 10% of the calf crop was a problem. It wasn't real life so my pocket book was fine, and so was my grade (not docked for the 'mistake' as my reasoning was sound) but I learned real quick genetics is kinda like playing with fire. If you don't respect it. it WILL burn you! [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Beginners Board
Looking for suggestions on calves
Top