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<blockquote data-quote="Caustic Burno" data-source="post: 1619542" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>You couldn't give me one. </p><p>That is one bull that will never be on my place again! Love the cows.</p><p></p><p>If I was going to Brahman influenced bull I would choose Brangus.</p><p>IMO the reason the Chars have the phenomenon of producing behemoth calves is the Brahman DNA in the woodpile. This Brahman phenomenon is documented by Dr. David Riley of TAMU & MSU using Brahman bulls on English breeds.</p><p></p><p>Most people today do not realize that there was a breeding up program in Charolais.</p><p>"In the late 1940s and early 1950s the breeders established the American Charbray Breeders Association and the American Charolais Breeders Association, both of which limited pedigrees to a blend of Charolais and Brahman breeding. Producers who were utilizing other beef breed cows to produce Charolais by compounding Charolais blood through successive generations, formed the International Charolais Association. In 1957, the American and International Associations merged into today's American-International Charolais Association (AICA). In 1964, the Pan-American Charolais Association, <strong>whose registrations were based on performance rather than genetic content, </strong>merged into the AICA. And three years later, the American Charbray Breeders Association merged with the AICA, bringing all Charolais-based breeds in the United States under the fold of a single breed registry.</p><p></p><p>With the limited availability of pure Charolais during the early years, American breeders established a five-generation "breeding-up" program to expand the breed. This program involved using purebred Charolais bulls for five consecutive generations to produce a 31/32 Charolais animal. Geneticists say this percentage is the equivalent of a purebred, containing only 3% of the genetic material from the foundation breed.</p><p></p><p>Charolais is a naturally horned beef animal, but through the breeding-up program, using other breeds carrying the polled gene, polled Charolais emerged. Some of the breed's strongest herds and leading breeders specialize in the production of high-performing polled Charolais."</p><p></p><p>The DNA is still in there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caustic Burno, post: 1619542, member: 694"] You couldn’t give me one. That is one bull that will never be on my place again! Love the cows. If I was going to Brahman influenced bull I would choose Brangus. IMO the reason the Chars have the phenomenon of producing behemoth calves is the Brahman DNA in the woodpile. This Brahman phenomenon is documented by Dr. David Riley of TAMU & MSU using Brahman bulls on English breeds. Most people today do not realize that there was a breeding up program in Charolais. “In the late 1940s and early 1950s the breeders established the American Charbray Breeders Association and the American Charolais Breeders Association, both of which limited pedigrees to a blend of Charolais and Brahman breeding. Producers who were utilizing other beef breed cows to produce Charolais by compounding Charolais blood through successive generations, formed the International Charolais Association. In 1957, the American and International Associations merged into today’s American-International Charolais Association (AICA). In 1964, the Pan-American Charolais Association, [b]whose registrations were based on performance rather than genetic content, [/b]merged into the AICA. And three years later, the American Charbray Breeders Association merged with the AICA, bringing all Charolais-based breeds in the United States under the fold of a single breed registry. With the limited availability of pure Charolais during the early years, American breeders established a five-generation “breeding-up” program to expand the breed. This program involved using purebred Charolais bulls for five consecutive generations to produce a 31/32 Charolais animal. Geneticists say this percentage is the equivalent of a purebred, containing only 3% of the genetic material from the foundation breed. Charolais is a naturally horned beef animal, but through the breeding-up program, using other breeds carrying the polled gene, polled Charolais emerged. Some of the breed’s strongest herds and leading breeders specialize in the production of high-performing polled Charolais.” The DNA is still in there. [/QUOTE]
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