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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 15220"><p>> A couple of years ago the reserve champion bull at a breed show I attended only had one testicle, ( seamon tested out ok though.) The purpose of selling high priced bulls is to improve the breeds genitics, not supply hot house flowers that explode in one trait , when they can breed, if they can breed, The one testicled bull should not have been sold into a breeding program, (unless extensivly line bred to insure this problem was not a heritable trait, and who has the time to watch generations of calves to check for this,) Excesivly pendelous sheaths should not be propgated either, granted it's hard to cull an animal that is the epitime of a breeding program in so many other ways but there is always a better bull out there someplace and if you're cull rate isn't heavy then youre breeding average cattle, no matter what the price you can convince someone to pay</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:galloping_gallery@yahoo.com">galloping_gallery@yahoo.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 15220"] > A couple of years ago the reserve champion bull at a breed show I attended only had one testicle, ( seamon tested out ok though.) The purpose of selling high priced bulls is to improve the breeds genitics, not supply hot house flowers that explode in one trait , when they can breed, if they can breed, The one testicled bull should not have been sold into a breeding program, (unless extensivly line bred to insure this problem was not a heritable trait, and who has the time to watch generations of calves to check for this,) Excesivly pendelous sheaths should not be propgated either, granted it's hard to cull an animal that is the epitime of a breeding program in so many other ways but there is always a better bull out there someplace and if you're cull rate isn't heavy then youre breeding average cattle, no matter what the price you can convince someone to pay [email=galloping_gallery@yahoo.com]galloping_gallery@yahoo.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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