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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 889397" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>:nod: Good advice... I'll add to it. The heritability of height is somewhere around 40%(which is actually quite high as compared to alot of other traits) so there's a good chance of you getting another shorty which when bred back to a tall bull to correct the problem will give you an NBA star which you'll correct by breeding to a shorty again even though she has the genetics of both and breeding to one or the other will surely bring that trait out in extremes... </p><p>At forty percent heritability, you can have a pretty even herd in two generations of breeding to bulls that you consider to be of IDEAL height versus corrective mating which could bounce you back and forth at random for generations to come.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 889397, member: 14661"] :nod: Good advice... I'll add to it. The heritability of height is somewhere around 40%(which is actually quite high as compared to alot of other traits) so there's a good chance of you getting another shorty which when bred back to a tall bull to correct the problem will give you an NBA star which you'll correct by breeding to a shorty again even though she has the genetics of both and breeding to one or the other will surely bring that trait out in extremes... At forty percent heritability, you can have a pretty even herd in two generations of breeding to bulls that you consider to be of IDEAL height versus corrective mating which could bounce you back and forth at random for generations to come. [/QUOTE]
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