Recent content by knabe

regarding fullblood maine's. a few cows came over as well obviously. yes, the breed is bottlenecked. some current breeders are using french genetics from around 2000 to present. still, not many. the cow mentioned above, is just an attempt to not have cunia, cross with less prominent early...

been flushing, ivf'g with old 1968-1980 birth date maine anjou bulls on a cow that is a direct daughter from a bull around then. she makes a decent amount of embryo's no matter what, so been using a variety. nice deep cow. been using "calving ease" bulls on her like Dada.

anyone interested in this type of thing? pretty cool. http://cattlemensconnection.com/Cattlem ... _648U.html i found some embryo's if anyone is interested.

How does one troll ones self? Lame.

the judges know what the breeds are. they may lump them together if there aren't enough to make a class. if a different judge lumps yours again into the same class, choose a different breed if you are worried about it. otherwise, just keep improving and don't worry about it. showing is just...

and since only one line has the big heart gene, the other two will fade away. would be interesting which line has the bleeder gene if there is one or if it's related to the big heart gene. ie, are there bleeders that don't have the big heart gene? should the big heart gene be considered a...

http://5barx.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f ... &start=120 morgan horses trace to one sire.

kill them on friday, grade on monday.

cattle like british whites, fullblood chi's, marchianga etc that have black HIDES and white hair should qualify as angus.

i've seen some bulls that are kept in corrals that might need trimming due to lack of travel as animals are designed to walk. i've also seen animals with toe injuries, especially around barns etc from a stray nail or whatever and need treatment. as soon as one hoof is injured, it makes it...

correct. but it is also a fact that there will always be mismanaged cattle and there will be plenty to make money on. otherwise there would be no auctions.

if there was no such thing as epistatsis and methylation, i would agree. the point of epd's is not to identify outstanding genetics, but to avoid them as they are simply the opposite of poor genetics or combinations. the problem with making all genetics the same is that the market simply...

isn't it like 70% one bull 30% the other or something like that? strengths and weaknesses to a closely bred population and a diverse one to finding markers. for instance, if i was looking for marbling in beef cattle, i would be looking for holsteins (yes, i know they do) that don't marble as...

it would also be useful to know if the different breeds were all black or retained their original color.

True. The dairy industry has a large amount of accurate phenotypic data to support the discovery/validation of markers. The beef industry has very little useful data. holsteins are way more closely bred than beef and angus as well, almost all holsteins trace to a single bull. way easier to...