farmer rich
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CMR":rhlql2rz said:have exportable semen on the only homozygous black Char bull that I know of anywhere. Had 40+ calves from him this spring this spring, all black but 2 greys. Can view some of our blacks on web site http://www.char-maineranching.com. None of this years calves yet, but soon. The ranchers with black cows absolutely love them. Took 4 black bulls to USA fall of 2002 they all wanted more, but like you said not for a while.
These are of course my own opinions and many will not share them.
I dont intend any offence, but unless that black came from a natural mutation, the bull is not a charolais. Back in that animals pedigree is an angus or a holstein, or some other black breed.
I still cannot understand why any breeder of pedigree cattle would mess around with the genetic integrity of his animals in order to introduce a trait that gives the animal no real commercial advantage. If you want black cattle, keep a black breed.
If you want to improve your pedigree cattle you should select cattle within that breed which exell in the traits you wish to improve. There are no shortcuts, outcrossing to another breed is at best lazy and at worst, dishonest.
In my opinion the way to combine the qualities of two different breeds is to cross them, but this should be labeled as a cross.
I am interested to hear the thoughts of the rest of the board on this topic.