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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Underwood" data-source="post: 349356" data-attributes="member: 5097"><p>Sounds like you're on the right track with your learning. For terminal animals (those to be finished), there certainly are benefits to hybrid vigor. In order to have hybrid vigor, you need cattle with homozygosis. Purebred cattle have some, and linebred cattle have lots of homozygosis.</p><p></p><p>I would suggest subscribing to Stockman Grass Farmer, and I'd suggest visiting Kit Pharo's site <a href="http://www.pharocattle.com" target="_blank">http://www.pharocattle.com</a>. My experience indicates that smaller-framed early maturing animals with historic genetics may finish better on grass. Most breeds began breeding out fat in the 60's and 70's, and bigger non-fat animals do not tend to finish as well on grass in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Underwood, post: 349356, member: 5097"] Sounds like you’re on the right track with your learning. For terminal animals (those to be finished), there certainly are benefits to hybrid vigor. In order to have hybrid vigor, you need cattle with homozygosis. Purebred cattle have some, and linebred cattle have lots of homozygosis. I would suggest subscribing to Stockman Grass Farmer, and I’d suggest visiting Kit Pharo’s site [url]http://www.pharocattle.com[/url]. My experience indicates that smaller-framed early maturing animals with historic genetics may finish better on grass. Most breeds began breeding out fat in the 60’s and 70’s, and bigger non-fat animals do not tend to finish as well on grass in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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