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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1557225" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>There is a need to define "better" to answer that question. For the experienced commercial producer the term "better" refers to less labor, less problems and decent income. For the purebred folks it involves names, sources and outlier performance in individual cattle. The commercial breeder is looking for uniformity of a calf crop while the number chasing purebred guys are seeking the few outliers. </p><p></p><p>Inbreeding is not damaging as outcrossing is not damaging, in general. The problem that the Angus breed had and might still have is that big named breeders knew that they had recessive defects on top AI bulls in the past but chose to not tell. When the rest of the breeders found out the problems began. An animals, inbred or outcrossed, is still only as good as the genes it has from either or both parents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1557225, member: 24565"] There is a need to define "better" to answer that question. For the experienced commercial producer the term "better" refers to less labor, less problems and decent income. For the purebred folks it involves names, sources and outlier performance in individual cattle. The commercial breeder is looking for uniformity of a calf crop while the number chasing purebred guys are seeking the few outliers. Inbreeding is not damaging as outcrossing is not damaging, in general. The problem that the Angus breed had and might still have is that big named breeders knew that they had recessive defects on top AI bulls in the past but chose to not tell. When the rest of the breeders found out the problems began. An animals, inbred or outcrossed, is still only as good as the genes it has from either or both parents. [/QUOTE]
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