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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 7097"><p>Well, I wouldn't call 18 steers a "large study." You're free to disagree with that, of course.</p><p></p><p>Everything I've ever read tells me double muscled breeds are less fertile and have more calving difficulty than "normal" breeds. Fertility and calving ease should not be overlooked if a producer actually expects to be profitable. Right or wrong, the packers and the commercial cattle business don't reward double muscled cattle, at least not here in the US. Here's a link to Leachman's Montana Range branded beef site. I think Leachman was the largest beef seedstock producer in the US, possibly the world. They are dispersing this year, in part because of the expense and problems starting up a branded beef program based on the myostatin gene. Good luck....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 7097"] Well, I wouldn't call 18 steers a "large study." You're free to disagree with that, of course. Everything I've ever read tells me double muscled breeds are less fertile and have more calving difficulty than "normal" breeds. Fertility and calving ease should not be overlooked if a producer actually expects to be profitable. Right or wrong, the packers and the commercial cattle business don't reward double muscled cattle, at least not here in the US. Here's a link to Leachman's Montana Range branded beef site. I think Leachman was the largest beef seedstock producer in the US, possibly the world. They are dispersing this year, in part because of the expense and problems starting up a branded beef program based on the myostatin gene. Good luck.... [/QUOTE]
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