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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 794278" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>AFORE YALL GET TOO CARRIED AWAY CRITIZING THE ANGUS BREEDER....</p><p></p><p>I was once in the office of a big name hereford breeder and he had a note laying on his desk and some weights and birth dates and they had all sorts of scratchouts and "corrections" I recall one partiularly heavy bull calf had five different birthdays by his name.</p><p></p><p>had another color breeder ask me once how much you could feed calves before you had to say you were creeping em.</p><p></p><p>as far as differnces.....</p><p>Dr. George Green was famous for saying that there were as many differences within breeds as there were between breeds. especially true for breeds of larger numbers.</p><p>the differences in dexters are not so wide.</p><p></p><p>cattle are a product of their environment.</p><p>what they have to eat on a daily basis determines how big they get.</p><p>they have an ability to adapt and survive on the resources avaialble.</p><p>it is not all genetic.</p><p>my dad was a scatch dirt farmer and we had typical cows.</p><p>when I got out of college and went to work for a big purebred outfit, he and his buddy came up to see me and they were amazed at the size of the cows. genetics were not real differnet but the groceries were.</p><p>In the seventies and eighties some learned judges decided to place bigger cattle higher and the race was on in the showring. but that race happened in a lot of breeds. some recognized the folly sooner than the others.</p><p>Show cattle got big. but the market corrected it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 794278, member: 6543"] AFORE YALL GET TOO CARRIED AWAY CRITIZING THE ANGUS BREEDER.... I was once in the office of a big name hereford breeder and he had a note laying on his desk and some weights and birth dates and they had all sorts of scratchouts and "corrections" I recall one partiularly heavy bull calf had five different birthdays by his name. had another color breeder ask me once how much you could feed calves before you had to say you were creeping em. as far as differnces..... Dr. George Green was famous for saying that there were as many differences within breeds as there were between breeds. especially true for breeds of larger numbers. the differences in dexters are not so wide. cattle are a product of their environment. what they have to eat on a daily basis determines how big they get. they have an ability to adapt and survive on the resources avaialble. it is not all genetic. my dad was a scatch dirt farmer and we had typical cows. when I got out of college and went to work for a big purebred outfit, he and his buddy came up to see me and they were amazed at the size of the cows. genetics were not real differnet but the groceries were. In the seventies and eighties some learned judges decided to place bigger cattle higher and the race was on in the showring. but that race happened in a lot of breeds. some recognized the folly sooner than the others. Show cattle got big. but the market corrected it. [/QUOTE]
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