Warrior2154
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Hello all. Just looking for information on Angus cow families such as characteristics and any info is helpful.
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robert":2s5yu6nt said:Popular is not necessarily the same as good.
Traditionally Angus are named according to their maternal line, foundation families would include but not limited to Erica, Queen Mother,Pride of Aberdeen, Miss Burgess, Beauty of Hayston, Blackbird. From these came Juana Erica, Blackcap, Mayflower, Bemindful Maid and so on. These secondary families came about when a particularly outstanding individual founded a branch or tribe of descent. 'Forever Lady' is not really a cow family as such as they are simply descendents of Forever of Wye or his sons, in particular Candolier Forever and Forever 924 GDAR. The two dominant lines of 'Forever Lady' are those descending from Forever Lady 163 GDAR and Forever Lady 395 GDAR though they stem from the influential Airyland Stock Farm herd they are respectively from the Kem and Duchess family's.
As for the traits expressed by each family, in my view the Breed as a whole is so outcrossed that characteristics that would be expected to be found in cow lines are so diluted and dispersed with the primary component of fixing traits (line breeding) being out of fashion and also discriminated against within the numbers based system I doubt the value of selecting based on family name anymore, that is not to say you can't find good breeding individuals that carry this or that popular name but to say 'she's a Forever Lady' means so little in actual breeding terms.
Warrior2154":2o21r4iw said:I do appreciate the information you all have posted. It has helped me out because I was worried about picking a wrong cow family and then wasting money. Reason I started this thread is to gain info because I do have a tank I just need to get it filled. Then I was thinking of getting some embryos to store in there to then put in commercial gelbvieh cows to start my angus herd that way. So when I start looking for embryos I wanted to have as much as I can to buy the right ones.
That's all it is right there.Massey135":dmp23rgh said:selling/promoting .
robert":xt2dzhq8 said:As for the traits expressed by each family, in my view the Breed as a whole is so outcrossed that characteristics that would be expected to be found in cow lines are so diluted and dispersed with the primary component of fixing traits (line breeding) being out of fashion and also discriminated against within the numbers based system I doubt the value of selecting based on family name anymore, that is not to say you can't find good breeding individuals that carry this or that popular name but to say 'she's a Forever Lady' means so little in actual breeding terms.