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<blockquote data-quote="Cattle Rack Rancher" data-source="post: 22918" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>Isn't the whole idea of a breed to give you a certain expected set of physical characteristics. For example with Black Angus, I expect a black hide, polled animal, with good marbling and relative calving ease. With a highlander I expect a hairy, long horned animal of smaller stature and excellent meat quality. Doesn't it take a long time to nail down these expected set of characteristics to get them consistent so you know more or less what to expect when you cross to another breed. Isn't this Herfstein thing just an F1 cross something like a Simm-Angus that will give you a variety of traits that may come from either parent but are not truly predictable? I know that its taken years to perfect the Speckle Park Breed and the Hays Converter to get an expected set of characteristics out of the calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattle Rack Rancher, post: 22918, member: 245"] Isn't the whole idea of a breed to give you a certain expected set of physical characteristics. For example with Black Angus, I expect a black hide, polled animal, with good marbling and relative calving ease. With a highlander I expect a hairy, long horned animal of smaller stature and excellent meat quality. Doesn't it take a long time to nail down these expected set of characteristics to get them consistent so you know more or less what to expect when you cross to another breed. Isn't this Herfstein thing just an F1 cross something like a Simm-Angus that will give you a variety of traits that may come from either parent but are not truly predictable? I know that its taken years to perfect the Speckle Park Breed and the Hays Converter to get an expected set of characteristics out of the calves. [/QUOTE]
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