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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 471927" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>The problem with crossing Black Baldy times Black Baldy is that ~1/4 of the progeny would be solid black, ~1/4 of the progeny would be red white faced, and the remaining ~1/2 would be everything from mostly black with a brockle face to black with full Hereford markings. There is so much heterozygosity in a black baldie that the F2 generation would be completely unpredictable and likely often not have the same heterosis levels as the F1 generation. That said, I have always thought that the Angus and Hereford associations were leaving money on the table by not selling registration papers into some sort of appendix registry for crossbred animals. I have heard that Angus is studying the potential profit in maintaining a seperate appendix Angus registry. Eventually I believe that this will happen (selling papers is what the breed associations exist for afterall), though I don't know how soon. The biggest holdups have been the unavailability and inaccuracy of crossbreed EPDs (though that has just about been resolved) and institutional reluctance too change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 471927, member: 2095"] The problem with crossing Black Baldy times Black Baldy is that ~1/4 of the progeny would be solid black, ~1/4 of the progeny would be red white faced, and the remaining ~1/2 would be everything from mostly black with a brockle face to black with full Hereford markings. There is so much heterozygosity in a black baldie that the F2 generation would be completely unpredictable and likely often not have the same heterosis levels as the F1 generation. That said, I have always thought that the Angus and Hereford associations were leaving money on the table by not selling registration papers into some sort of appendix registry for crossbred animals. I have heard that Angus is studying the potential profit in maintaining a seperate appendix Angus registry. Eventually I believe that this will happen (selling papers is what the breed associations exist for afterall), though I don't know how soon. The biggest holdups have been the unavailability and inaccuracy of crossbreed EPDs (though that has just about been resolved) and institutional reluctance too change. [/QUOTE]
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