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<blockquote data-quote="City Guy" data-source="post: 1348210" data-attributes="member: 25547"><p>OK, I must be even dumber than I first thought! I have been under the impression that an animal's response to an environmental stimulus is either genetic or learned or some combination of the two. I'm I wrong?</p><p>Inyata13 and kickinbull believe that the endophyte tolerance is not learned and is therefore genetic. If that is true it means (to me at least) that a calf born in Wyoming with the proper genetics could be relocated to Missouri with no ill effects. Has that ever happened?</p><p>It also means that a calf born in Missouri with the wrong genetics would suffer the ill effects so long as it remained in the Show Me state. Has that ever happened?</p><p>I understand there is now a DNA test for endophyte tolerance which means that somebody has made a genetic connection. If it is completely genetic that means, to me at least, that the CTC and minerals are useless weapons in this fight, yet anecdotal evidence indicates that those things seem to help in some incidences. Go figure!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="City Guy, post: 1348210, member: 25547"] OK, I must be even dumber than I first thought! I have been under the impression that an animal's response to an environmental stimulus is either genetic or learned or some combination of the two. I'm I wrong? Inyata13 and kickinbull believe that the endophyte tolerance is not learned and is therefore genetic. If that is true it means (to me at least) that a calf born in Wyoming with the proper genetics could be relocated to Missouri with no ill effects. Has that ever happened? It also means that a calf born in Missouri with the wrong genetics would suffer the ill effects so long as it remained in the Show Me state. Has that ever happened? I understand there is now a DNA test for endophyte tolerance which means that somebody has made a genetic connection. If it is completely genetic that means, to me at least, that the CTC and minerals are useless weapons in this fight, yet anecdotal evidence indicates that those things seem to help in some incidences. Go figure! [/QUOTE]
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