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<blockquote data-quote="bcarty" data-source="post: 880088" data-attributes="member: 17617"><p>Line breeding is how we get any defined "breed" for any animal. It is used to solidify certain traits and can be used to improve your cow herd. I use bulls that I raised as cleanup bulls for AI. They will be half sibs and cousins to the heifers they are breeding, and the calves will be really well suited for my environment. I only use this line breeding on heifers. It tends to produce a slightly lighter calf for me than using an outcross bull, and it makes life on my heifers easier. By only doing this on the heifers I make sure that I have very few incidences of line breeding in my herd. I keep precise notes about this and make sure that I dont keep any heifers that are the result of a second line breeding. I will keep heifers that are linebred, but I wont keep any heifers out of a line bred heifer. That sounds confusing.... example - Cow A bred to Bull A = Heifer A. Heifer A bred to half brother = heifer B(KEEP). Heifer B bred to any sib or relative I wont keep a heifer out of this cross.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bcarty, post: 880088, member: 17617"] Line breeding is how we get any defined "breed" for any animal. It is used to solidify certain traits and can be used to improve your cow herd. I use bulls that I raised as cleanup bulls for AI. They will be half sibs and cousins to the heifers they are breeding, and the calves will be really well suited for my environment. I only use this line breeding on heifers. It tends to produce a slightly lighter calf for me than using an outcross bull, and it makes life on my heifers easier. By only doing this on the heifers I make sure that I have very few incidences of line breeding in my herd. I keep precise notes about this and make sure that I dont keep any heifers that are the result of a second line breeding. I will keep heifers that are linebred, but I wont keep any heifers out of a line bred heifer. That sounds confusing.... example - Cow A bred to Bull A = Heifer A. Heifer A bred to half brother = heifer B(KEEP). Heifer B bred to any sib or relative I wont keep a heifer out of this cross. [/QUOTE]
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