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<blockquote data-quote="alexfarms" data-source="post: 591693" data-attributes="member: 8677"><p>The strangest thing about this, Frankie, is the AHA has listed some bulls for having genetic abnormalities. I recall several years ago, shortly after the merger of the AHA and APHA, the AHA was supposed to come out with a list of carrier bulls for a couple different abnormalities. The list didn't come out as scheduled. So, I called up the breed imporvement director at the time, who is now deceased, and asked him if there was a new list. He said the list was the same as last year but that just a couple polled bulls had been added to the hypotrichosis list. I said what about the horned side? He responded: "There's nothing on the horned side". I have both horned and polled cattle and I like both horned and polled herefords, but there is not "no abnormalities" on the horned side or in any other breed. We have people running our association that are in denial. It is not so much that they are in denial over whether there are genetic abnormalities in Hereford cattle, it is that they are in denial about being capable of concealing the faults that do exist in the breed. You say: "I can't believe the AHA would not list a bull as having a genetic defect if he's been proven and shown to carry it". Not only are they unwilling to identify known carriers, they have devised a system implicating every animal in the breed as suspected carriers until they are proven free of the abnormal gene just so the known carriers are not singled out by not also having been proven free of the abnormal gene. This makes members unable to check pedigrees by indentifying known carriers that might be in an animals pedigree. All of our untested animals remain suspected carriers until we pay the $35/head to have them tested and proven free of the genetic abnormalities. This hurts the Hereford breed. They believe they are protecting the breed and they are prolonging the problems. What is lacking is sunlight and transparency. Ignorance is an enemy of progress. The AAA is doing it the right way. I am sure there is a lag.....where people are getting burned by not knowing the abnormalities before they make major purchases, but it has to come out in the open as quickly as possible. When the staff and board of directors know the problem exits, it has to come out to the general membership. I don't know why we can't have that kind of leadership in the Hereford breed. I have seen good people try to move us in that direction and fail. I don't know why we can't make that change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alexfarms, post: 591693, member: 8677"] The strangest thing about this, Frankie, is the AHA has listed some bulls for having genetic abnormalities. I recall several years ago, shortly after the merger of the AHA and APHA, the AHA was supposed to come out with a list of carrier bulls for a couple different abnormalities. The list didn't come out as scheduled. So, I called up the breed imporvement director at the time, who is now deceased, and asked him if there was a new list. He said the list was the same as last year but that just a couple polled bulls had been added to the hypotrichosis list. I said what about the horned side? He responded: "There's nothing on the horned side". I have both horned and polled cattle and I like both horned and polled herefords, but there is not "no abnormalities" on the horned side or in any other breed. We have people running our association that are in denial. It is not so much that they are in denial over whether there are genetic abnormalities in Hereford cattle, it is that they are in denial about being capable of concealing the faults that do exist in the breed. You say: "I can't believe the AHA would not list a bull as having a genetic defect if he's been proven and shown to carry it". Not only are they unwilling to identify known carriers, they have devised a system implicating every animal in the breed as suspected carriers until they are proven free of the abnormal gene just so the known carriers are not singled out by not also having been proven free of the abnormal gene. This makes members unable to check pedigrees by indentifying known carriers that might be in an animals pedigree. All of our untested animals remain suspected carriers until we pay the $35/head to have them tested and proven free of the genetic abnormalities. This hurts the Hereford breed. They believe they are protecting the breed and they are prolonging the problems. What is lacking is sunlight and transparency. Ignorance is an enemy of progress. The AAA is doing it the right way. I am sure there is a lag.....where people are getting burned by not knowing the abnormalities before they make major purchases, but it has to come out in the open as quickly as possible. When the staff and board of directors know the problem exits, it has to come out to the general membership. I don't know why we can't have that kind of leadership in the Hereford breed. I have seen good people try to move us in that direction and fail. I don't know why we can't make that change. [/QUOTE]
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