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Beef Cattle Industry - The Last 25 Years - What Happened?
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<blockquote data-quote="Herefords.US" data-source="post: 311352" data-attributes="member: 3972"><p>The Battle of Bull Runts should be a must read for anyone in the purebred breeding cattle business. Not only does it give insight to the workings/politics involved in breed associations, it also demonstrates the importance of "checking" your genetics through some closebreeding/linebreeding/inbreeding. Hidden recessive genes for dwarfism were undetected for years because the practice at the time was to not closebreed and when dwarfism became a problem, it was a real puzzle to sort out.</p><p></p><p>Prince Domino's reputation suffered greatly during that time as the most well-known carriers of dwarfism were his descendents. I still occasionally hear someone say that he was responsible. The truth is that Prince Domino was a straightbred Anxiety 4th bull and no animal that was straightbred Anxiety 4th ever carried the dwarfism gene. Prince Domino's descendants got the gene from their other ancestors.</p><p></p><p></p><p>George</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herefords.US, post: 311352, member: 3972"] The Battle of Bull Runts should be a must read for anyone in the purebred breeding cattle business. Not only does it give insight to the workings/politics involved in breed associations, it also demonstrates the importance of "checking" your genetics through some closebreeding/linebreeding/inbreeding. Hidden recessive genes for dwarfism were undetected for years because the practice at the time was to not closebreed and when dwarfism became a problem, it was a real puzzle to sort out. Prince Domino's reputation suffered greatly during that time as the most well-known carriers of dwarfism were his descendents. I still occasionally hear someone say that he was responsible. The truth is that Prince Domino was a straightbred Anxiety 4th bull and no animal that was straightbred Anxiety 4th ever carried the dwarfism gene. Prince Domino's descendants got the gene from their other ancestors. George [/QUOTE]
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