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<blockquote data-quote="gizmom" data-source="post: 1658319" data-attributes="member: 13402"><p>How can a brothers be so very different in looks and temperament. Just because they have the same sir/dam or Mom/dad won't make them the same. When the fetus is forming it picks up little bits and pieces of the sire and the dams genes its flush brother also pick up pieces but may grab some that went back to great granddad hoss who was 7 ft tall and weighed 200 pounds while the flush brother got his genes from great grandma Hattie who was barely 4ft tall and didn't weigh 90 pounds. So even in flush mates you can see differences, it all boils down to how the DNA lines up. We had a group of 7 flush Brothers had them genomically tested 6 of the 7 were low birthweigh bulls ranging from .3 to 2.1 with ced's of 6 or better but the 7th calf had a 4.2 birth weight and a -1 ced. So no 7 had to have grabbed his DNA from Hoss.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gizmom, post: 1658319, member: 13402"] How can a brothers be so very different in looks and temperament. Just because they have the same sir/dam or Mom/dad won't make them the same. When the fetus is forming it picks up little bits and pieces of the sire and the dams genes its flush brother also pick up pieces but may grab some that went back to great granddad hoss who was 7 ft tall and weighed 200 pounds while the flush brother got his genes from great grandma Hattie who was barely 4ft tall and didn't weigh 90 pounds. So even in flush mates you can see differences, it all boils down to how the DNA lines up. We had a group of 7 flush Brothers had them genomically tested 6 of the 7 were low birthweigh bulls ranging from .3 to 2.1 with ced's of 6 or better but the 7th calf had a 4.2 birth weight and a -1 ced. So no 7 had to have grabbed his DNA from Hoss. [/QUOTE]
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