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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1447590" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>Seeing that I can't find a SINGLE picture of your cows, pardon me not taking your critiques too seriously. c'mon, we have the technology nowadays.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I have seen lots of pics from 3waycross, and definitely like them all.</p><p></p><p>I'd love to be able to buy a perfect bull, but even if I did, some people won't like him, we all have different goals and environments. I've been working on eliminating so many more important issues than milder structural problems that don't affect performance, though I do want to get to that point eventually, and it is on the horizon. I'd love to have all perfect toplines, perfect stance, but if the end goal is beef, that is secondary... </p><p></p><p></p><p>As of right now, I have no linebred/inbred cows whatsoever, the calves I posted would be the start, and from what I'm seeing, and the popular choice of people here, it's all the linebred calves that look the best... So how do I win here? Keep calves you say don't belong in my herd whatsoever, or keep the linebred ones? The linebred ones have the "look" I'm looking for, and they're outgrowing the ones that <em>ought </em>to be full of hybrid vigor. I don't think I'll ever completely close my herd to outside bulls, it's just not reasonable with the numbers I'm limited to, however, I'm thinking if I keep 2 bulls from every purchased bull, and am mindful of what breeds what, I should be able to get better uniformity without going overboard linebreeding, staying mostly to half siblings and cousins.. It wasn't in my original plan to have a mother-son mating, but since that cow was just not working with the unrelated bull, I gave it a try and well, it got far better results.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1447590, member: 9096"] Seeing that I can't find a SINGLE picture of your cows, pardon me not taking your critiques too seriously. c'mon, we have the technology nowadays. On the other hand, I have seen lots of pics from 3waycross, and definitely like them all. I'd love to be able to buy a perfect bull, but even if I did, some people won't like him, we all have different goals and environments. I've been working on eliminating so many more important issues than milder structural problems that don't affect performance, though I do want to get to that point eventually, and it is on the horizon. I'd love to have all perfect toplines, perfect stance, but if the end goal is beef, that is secondary... As of right now, I have no linebred/inbred cows whatsoever, the calves I posted would be the start, and from what I'm seeing, and the popular choice of people here, it's all the linebred calves that look the best... So how do I win here? Keep calves you say don't belong in my herd whatsoever, or keep the linebred ones? The linebred ones have the "look" I'm looking for, and they're outgrowing the ones that [i]ought [/i]to be full of hybrid vigor. I don't think I'll ever completely close my herd to outside bulls, it's just not reasonable with the numbers I'm limited to, however, I'm thinking if I keep 2 bulls from every purchased bull, and am mindful of what breeds what, I should be able to get better uniformity without going overboard linebreeding, staying mostly to half siblings and cousins.. It wasn't in my original plan to have a mother-son mating, but since that cow was just not working with the unrelated bull, I gave it a try and well, it got far better results. [/QUOTE]
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