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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1733901" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>Blood types were recorded and off types are there. It shows in the genetic data section of AAA or did. It was never acted on. There were horned Angus to show up in the frame race and after. The buyers of the sire or the semen had to decide to become the ones to push it or to drop it. And if you had a herd of "polled Angus", bought a bull, your calves were horned then that tells something of the base herd. So most just removed them and did not tell on others or themselves. One was a true mistake - the half Angus heifer of the nurse cow (Holstein) was sold as a registered Angus heifer. They figured it out later. But one grandson was used widely an was a top US semen seller for a period, He was a "changer": white on udders, different teats, big calves, different type...</p><p></p><p>It was not just horns. I talked with a ranch manager of a well known nationally known cattle. In asking about some bulls from the 60's, and one in particular that I use, he told the story of the ranch owner rechecking breeding records after daughters of the bull began to come into production. He knew they were different than they should be. It turns out that the bulls sire was wrong. He contacted AAA and they told him to shut up and forget about it - too much to undo and a question of the registry. It does not matter as the herd was linebred and the differences are minor in pedigree. Still good cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1733901, member: 24565"] Blood types were recorded and off types are there. It shows in the genetic data section of AAA or did. It was never acted on. There were horned Angus to show up in the frame race and after. The buyers of the sire or the semen had to decide to become the ones to push it or to drop it. And if you had a herd of "polled Angus", bought a bull, your calves were horned then that tells something of the base herd. So most just removed them and did not tell on others or themselves. One was a true mistake - the half Angus heifer of the nurse cow (Holstein) was sold as a registered Angus heifer. They figured it out later. But one grandson was used widely an was a top US semen seller for a period, He was a "changer": white on udders, different teats, big calves, different type... It was not just horns. I talked with a ranch manager of a well known nationally known cattle. In asking about some bulls from the 60's, and one in particular that I use, he told the story of the ranch owner rechecking breeding records after daughters of the bull began to come into production. He knew they were different than they should be. It turns out that the bulls sire was wrong. He contacted AAA and they told him to shut up and forget about it - too much to undo and a question of the registry. It does not matter as the herd was linebred and the differences are minor in pedigree. Still good cattle. [/QUOTE]
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