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<blockquote data-quote="redcowsrule33" data-source="post: 1046327" data-attributes="member: 8629"><p>Luckily I belong to associations that don't force me to throw out the baby with the bathwater. They require testing, but a carrier can keep a registration. The beauty of today is the availability of genetic testing. I have an MA carrier in my herd. Her bulls are steered if they are carriers and the heifers have to be darn good to stay if they are. She is a top cow, and every time she has a calf I have a 50:50 chance of a calf clean of defects. Before anyone jumps on me for selling carrier heifers into the market, I sell to a place that is <em>supposed</em> to use them as slaughter animals. Once they have left the place, I can't control their destiny. My philosophy is that if you buy a market heifer for breeding, that's your risk (one of many).</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, here I sit with three cows that I bred 3 weeks ago to a grandson of Predestined (if they all settled). I'll fuss over it until I know the results on the sire (just my nature), but if they settled and he is a carrier, I'll just test and cull. Who knows, the calves might have ended up on the cull list regardless of carrier status anyway. Registration papers don't save testicles around here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redcowsrule33, post: 1046327, member: 8629"] Luckily I belong to associations that don't force me to throw out the baby with the bathwater. They require testing, but a carrier can keep a registration. The beauty of today is the availability of genetic testing. I have an MA carrier in my herd. Her bulls are steered if they are carriers and the heifers have to be darn good to stay if they are. She is a top cow, and every time she has a calf I have a 50:50 chance of a calf clean of defects. Before anyone jumps on me for selling carrier heifers into the market, I sell to a place that is [i]supposed[/i] to use them as slaughter animals. Once they have left the place, I can't control their destiny. My philosophy is that if you buy a market heifer for breeding, that's your risk (one of many). Unfortunately, here I sit with three cows that I bred 3 weeks ago to a grandson of Predestined (if they all settled). I'll fuss over it until I know the results on the sire (just my nature), but if they settled and he is a carrier, I'll just test and cull. Who knows, the calves might have ended up on the cull list regardless of carrier status anyway. Registration papers don't save testicles around here. [/QUOTE]
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