greenwillowherefords
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mtnman":hq9irmji said:greenwillow:
I'd think for a Hereford guy, you would understand linebreeding better.
Things don't "show up" with linebreeding, they are uncovered, because they were already there. Linebreeding doesn't CAUSE mutations, it UNCOVERS them.
Might I remind you that the L1's started from other cows, and bulls, they just didn't magically appear. Therefore, the gene was in the starting animals, which were some of the same starting animals for other lines, and that are still available today, just not through a L1 pedigree.
mtnman
I was just using L 1 as an example. I didn't say that linebreeding causes it; I said it shows up when you do. Which is another way of saying that it uncovers it, IMHO. BTW, what DOES cause mutations? I believe there is must be an environment or set of circumstances that tends to foster them.