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I use about the same method as Lone C. When the horse wants to run, make him/her run never giving a break by swinging the lead line. This simulates the same kind of work one might do on a longe line or in a round pen. Push the horse for several minutes to get the fresh off of it, and then give...

In the Angus breed Touchstone Angus have also a linebred herd. I find it interesting that both Shoshone and Touchstone are in Wyoming. Perhaps there are some equal to it, but there is no country more demanding on cattle to perform than Wyoming. My 2nd Great Grandfather was an early...

I've bred the identical pattern before with dogs for a buyer in Georgia to whom I shipped a bred matron. This was my recommendation to him. He has been very pleased with the result. 75% on the sire (Eros 1702) back to a bro-sis bred dam (1706). It is a tight breeding, but if the quality is...

Pedigree link is not working for me HS. In the Angus breed though, I like the Wye Angus cattle, they are bred right. I have a good friend with a moderate sized registered Angus program. I was telling her i felt they were the best bred Angus out there. Coincedentally, she perked up and told me...

It could be discouraging, but the successes observed along the way are worth fighting the battle in my estimation. There is nothing like knowing you have a relatively clean and predictable genetic base from which to draw. The kind which prove themselves in open competition or evaluation to be...

Your link had this quote Hereford Sire: It will be found that after a lifetime of linebreeding only the surface will be "scratched". This echos a sentiment of Dr. Whitney that a lifetime is not enough to do the work justice. Therefore, it becomes imperative that those who are engaged in this...

:stop: :cboy: Apparently Hereford Sire, there is a contingent here who's dander is raised due to our exchange. :cry: Invariably in my message board experiences, it seems whenever some few individuals put cohesive thoughts together that continue past a few lines of simpleton drivel, someone is...

HS wrote: That is a lot of animals to know trait origination if no two animals is the same or some are the same. That would be like looking at a chess board since there are 64 squares on the board, but there may be a gazillion differences in scatter bred cattle. If I take DNA samples from each...

Gberry, The traits of a heterzygous polled bull being passed is not only attributed to the bull himself, but from his ancestry also. Some traits like horns or polled, white faces, and others are well defined with "rules" that apply, because they have become "absolutely fixed" (homozygous) or...

Really liked this quote from Dr. Witherspoon on his site. He described some of what I was trying to state above with much more eloquence. "The point I am trying to make here is that if we become too absolute and too rigid about even important traits, we are going to inevitably sacrifice...

HS wrote: Maybe we can retire by buying culls of excellent bloodlines. I researched filial degeneration a tad, I what I have realized in thinking about this concept in the context of line breeding, ….. is if I use inexpensive initial seed stock, their progeny should revert to the mean and the...

FWIW......Animals at either the highest or lowest end of a bloodline rarely produce equals of themselves consistently. Rather, they tend to produce the average of their line due to a phenomenon known as filial degeneration. The high REA animal will probably not produce outstanding rib eye with...

The Lents' Anxiety 4th herd has been closed for 126 years. It surely can be done!

Sold 13 acres off my place 2 summers ago at $20,000 per acre. Land prices are down now. There is a neighboring parcel of 30 acres being offered now for $325,000 or $10,800 per acre. There is no way anyone could buy land around here at current prices and generate a profit with cattle or hay. It...

That is all the Milorganite brand of fertilizer is, Milwaukee-Organic-Nitrogen, straight out of the sewer processing plant. No reason not to use dried sewer sludge if you can get your hands on it. http://milorganite.com/home/