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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1807778" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Genetic defects have been around in all breeds for a very long time, way before modern technology has been able to identify them. You only have to look in the pathology text books, Jubb and Kennedy which was a modern text book when I was at Uni, they describe many many birth defects in animals which we all took to being just one of those things that happened from time to time. These defects didn't take over the cattle population they stayed at a low level. Way back there was no artificial breeding with heavy use of one particular sire however AI has been used heavily back as far as I can remember and long before these defects were identified as being genetic. If something did crop up people may have just avoided that particular mating in case there was something in it but it wasn't the end of the world.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1807778, member: 16453"] Genetic defects have been around in all breeds for a very long time, way before modern technology has been able to identify them. You only have to look in the pathology text books, Jubb and Kennedy which was a modern text book when I was at Uni, they describe many many birth defects in animals which we all took to being just one of those things that happened from time to time. These defects didn't take over the cattle population they stayed at a low level. Way back there was no artificial breeding with heavy use of one particular sire however AI has been used heavily back as far as I can remember and long before these defects were identified as being genetic. If something did crop up people may have just avoided that particular mating in case there was something in it but it wasn't the end of the world. Ken [/QUOTE]
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