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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1831343" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>Boy, people sure like to throw that "wrong" word around as though my criteria for what a legitimate breed is somehow less valid than theirs is... when both ideas are opinions.</p><p></p><p>You guys can breed a German shepherd to a goat and call it an Angus if you want to, but I'm not gonna do it. All cattle started out with crossbreeding... but it was once standard practice to close off any outside sources for genetics once a standard was established and the breed had enough population to remain viable. I'll stick with that definition, thank you very much. One of my favorite crosses is Bramousin but they are crossbreeds whether "registered" or not... until they become standardized and close their genetic pool off. Beefmaster, IMO, are still pretty questionable unless you want to define them as a "breed" with no consistency. Personally I love the effort but consider it failed. Any breed with that much variation within a registry is more than a little suspect for my tastes. And that's not to say I haven't seen some great Beefmasters... but only individuals. You get a bunch of them together and that all goes out the window.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1831343, member: 42463"] Boy, people sure like to throw that "wrong" word around as though my criteria for what a legitimate breed is somehow less valid than theirs is... when both ideas are opinions. You guys can breed a German shepherd to a goat and call it an Angus if you want to, but I'm not gonna do it. All cattle started out with crossbreeding... but it was once standard practice to close off any outside sources for genetics once a standard was established and the breed had enough population to remain viable. I'll stick with that definition, thank you very much. One of my favorite crosses is Bramousin but they are crossbreeds whether "registered" or not... until they become standardized and close their genetic pool off. Beefmaster, IMO, are still pretty questionable unless you want to define them as a "breed" with no consistency. Personally I love the effort but consider it failed. Any breed with that much variation within a registry is more than a little suspect for my tastes. And that's not to say I haven't seen some great Beefmasters... but only individuals. You get a bunch of them together and that all goes out the window. [/QUOTE]
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