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<blockquote data-quote="TexasJerseyMilker" data-source="post: 1808083" data-attributes="member: 42782"><p>-" There "are purebred breeders that are just <strong>multipliers</strong>. All cattle have registration papers and are promoted as purebred of XYZ breed."</p><p></p><p>Beefmasters are a 3 way cross of Hereford, Shorthorn and Brahma. The bad hereford udders were bred out of them, the shorthorn made good milkers and the bos indicus Brahma gave them hybrid heterosis without continous outcross. It is bred for a phenotype that has to work in their environment. Not a lot of attention paid to pedigrees, but to what works. The original Lasater cattle were tight skinned. The ranchers in south Texas bred for so much hanging skin to shed the heat they started having big troubles with uterine prolapses. So the breed switched to two different registries as the Lasater breeders saying they were not working (prolapses) in their enviornment and did not want to retain this trait in the breed. Recently they have gotten back together and tightened up the skin.</p><p></p><p>Here in Oregon all the cattle I see are mixtures of Angus, Charlaise and Limosine because that's what works with commercial cows. Even the homebred bulls are crossbred. This Angus looking bull, one of their best bulls known as the Speciman, had Charlaise in the woodpile because he threw this fawn colored calf. He was finally sold for meat at the age of 20. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]31283[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]31284[/ATTACH]</p><p>Heck, The Specimen may have has some Jersey in him for the extra milk. Kind of like the Beefmasters with the shorthorn blood.</p><p></p><p>I don't really care about the pedigree of my Jersey cows. That was all taken care of by the working dairy breeders. I am an end user.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasJerseyMilker, post: 1808083, member: 42782"] -" There "are purebred breeders that are just [B]multipliers[/B]. All cattle have registration papers and are promoted as purebred of XYZ breed." Beefmasters are a 3 way cross of Hereford, Shorthorn and Brahma. The bad hereford udders were bred out of them, the shorthorn made good milkers and the bos indicus Brahma gave them hybrid heterosis without continous outcross. It is bred for a phenotype that has to work in their environment. Not a lot of attention paid to pedigrees, but to what works. The original Lasater cattle were tight skinned. The ranchers in south Texas bred for so much hanging skin to shed the heat they started having big troubles with uterine prolapses. So the breed switched to two different registries as the Lasater breeders saying they were not working (prolapses) in their enviornment and did not want to retain this trait in the breed. Recently they have gotten back together and tightened up the skin. Here in Oregon all the cattle I see are mixtures of Angus, Charlaise and Limosine because that's what works with commercial cows. Even the homebred bulls are crossbred. This Angus looking bull, one of their best bulls known as the Speciman, had Charlaise in the woodpile because he threw this fawn colored calf. He was finally sold for meat at the age of 20. [ATTACH type="full" alt="100_2028.JPG"]31283[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="100_2022.JPG"]31284[/ATTACH] Heck, The Specimen may have has some Jersey in him for the extra milk. Kind of like the Beefmasters with the shorthorn blood. I don't really care about the pedigree of my Jersey cows. That was all taken care of by the working dairy breeders. I am an end user. [/QUOTE]
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