CreekAngus said:
Angus Rocks said:
I don't have a problem with parentage testing but when line breeding gets done in a tight breeding situation how will can they tell?
I ain't going to pay Angus for their numbers to only get them manipulated to make the new hot sires look great and the older sires that still grow just as good look like crap with the numbers. I would way rather pay for Agboost that compares across all breeds rather then just one. Also believe they are way more accurate
You just nailed it. Currently the dna test can only tell you who it ain't related to, sort of. When we send in samples we have to tell the parentage and when they run the test they look for markers that reflect the supposed parentage. If it's a miss and the Daddy isn't the sire, they can't tell you through the dna who the sire really is. You have to give them your next best option who they then look for markers, again. Hypothetically you could use a Payweight son and get it registered to Payweight, because there are enough markers.
I'm going to, based off of the convo I had with the operation and Angus Association... disagree.
To my understanding, when called on about possible problem with the sample used is "it was two markers off of being a match"... which told me that it could still be a son of same sire. But what they were conveying is, the sample on file was deteriorated and could have potentially been the reason it was off.
New sample was mailed Saturday.
I want to be clear since Branded is making my small molehill into a mountain... this bull was purchased in 2015 to cover commercial cows. It was purchased because it was a heifer bull by genetics. It was purchased because of the reputation of said breeder.
Having said that, once we started needing coverage on our purebreds... we chose him to clean them up because we loved his calves for the last few years. We did not make a bad decision there. We're happy with those results.
The only thing I'm frustrated over, is the genomics came back with a 46 milk. Way higher than I like.
Parentage doesn't mean a whole lot on commercials as long as you aren't getting 100lbs + on heifers that can't calve them. We got lucky.
Parentage means everything now that we run PB. All but two bulls and our calves for this year have been genomic/parent verified. We do not purchase anything without that now. Those other bulls will never see a PB.