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2 yr old Galloway heifer pair
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<blockquote data-quote="djinwa" data-source="post: 960905" data-attributes="member: 8265"><p>Unfortunately, that is not how genetics work. When you breed two very different animals, you don't know what you will get, since genes are assigned randomly. You might get some with short hair and others with long and some with the growth traits of brahma and some with galloway.</p><p></p><p>I know a guy who has a holstein dairy and an angus herd, and sometimes breeds the holstein to angus. Some of the resulting heifers milk nearly as much as pure holsteins, so he puts them in his milking string. Others milk very little. Some are good beefers and others aren't.</p><p></p><p>Seems you're trying too hard to make your breed work where it doesn't. Would be easier to start with a breed closer to where you want to be. The reality is these long-haired breeds were not designed for summers in most of the states. Their country of origin was a cool, cloudy, rainy climate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djinwa, post: 960905, member: 8265"] Unfortunately, that is not how genetics work. When you breed two very different animals, you don't know what you will get, since genes are assigned randomly. You might get some with short hair and others with long and some with the growth traits of brahma and some with galloway. I know a guy who has a holstein dairy and an angus herd, and sometimes breeds the holstein to angus. Some of the resulting heifers milk nearly as much as pure holsteins, so he puts them in his milking string. Others milk very little. Some are good beefers and others aren't. Seems you're trying too hard to make your breed work where it doesn't. Would be easier to start with a breed closer to where you want to be. The reality is these long-haired breeds were not designed for summers in most of the states. Their country of origin was a cool, cloudy, rainy climate. [/QUOTE]
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