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<blockquote data-quote="MF135" data-source="post: 749914" data-attributes="member: 14057"><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>I am done posting on this thread. Anything I can possibly say in response to that statement will be inflamatory. Best of luck...3way</strong></p></blockquote><p></p><p>So in your opinion, the term "a terminal bull" is subjective to the operation he services? I thought the word was more specific to the bull itself w/ regards to his offspring's characteristics. </p><p> I miswrote. Should have said increased the <em>homozygosity</em>. Homozygosity rapidly increases, creating uniformity and prepotency. Prepotency means that more desirable genes are present and that they transmit to offspring with greater uniformity and frequency. Inbred and/or highly linebred lines can be crossed for superior results. Bulls from these lines can be used to great advantage in outcross herds. Although it may look like a disadvantage on the surface, inbreeding forces out latent weaknesses so carrier animals and defective ones can be eliminated from the gene pool. The chief advantages of inbreeding are: It helps to uncover undesirable recessive genes so that animals possessing them may be culled; it may be used to develop uniform and distinct families so that interfamily selection may be more effectively practiced; new and often superior groups of animals may be produced by combining two or more inbred lines; it increases prepotency by increasing the chances that animals will pass on their traits to their offspring; and it is useful in maintaining a high relationship of stock to an especially desirable ancestor. I do realize though that over inbreeding will lead to inbreeding depression.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="MF135, post: 749914, member: 14057"] [b] I am done posting on this thread. Anything I can possibly say in response to that statement will be inflamatory. Best of luck...3way[/b][/quote] So in your opinion, the term "a terminal bull" is subjective to the operation he services? I thought the word was more specific to the bull itself w/ regards to his offspring's characteristics. I miswrote. Should have said increased the [i]homozygosity[/i]. Homozygosity rapidly increases, creating uniformity and prepotency. Prepotency means that more desirable genes are present and that they transmit to offspring with greater uniformity and frequency. Inbred and/or highly linebred lines can be crossed for superior results. Bulls from these lines can be used to great advantage in outcross herds. Although it may look like a disadvantage on the surface, inbreeding forces out latent weaknesses so carrier animals and defective ones can be eliminated from the gene pool. The chief advantages of inbreeding are: It helps to uncover undesirable recessive genes so that animals possessing them may be culled; it may be used to develop uniform and distinct families so that interfamily selection may be more effectively practiced; new and often superior groups of animals may be produced by combining two or more inbred lines; it increases prepotency by increasing the chances that animals will pass on their traits to their offspring; and it is useful in maintaining a high relationship of stock to an especially desirable ancestor. I do realize though that over inbreeding will lead to inbreeding depression. [/QUOTE]
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