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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 678770" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>In the most recent genetic defect debacle, stellar EPDs certainly played a role in the Precision catte gaining the popularity that they did; though the big reason they were popular is that they were less high strung than the EXT cattle and generally more pleasing to the eye than some of the New Design cattle (some New Designs can be a little "cat as*ed"). These same defects could just as easily have occurred in 036 or EXT or Traveler 23-4. For that matter, if you selected only sires with breed average or worse EPDs you would have just as much likelihood of getting a genetic defect. Linebreeding does not create genetic defects; but rather it exposes them. IF Precision had just been a flash in the pan bull...everybody uses him for two years then moves on to something else....the defects would still be in the bloodlines tracing back to him. We probably just would not be aware of it. It was the fact that he was so popular the made people keep going back to him which ultimately exposed both defects..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 678770, member: 7645"] In the most recent genetic defect debacle, stellar EPDs certainly played a role in the Precision catte gaining the popularity that they did; though the big reason they were popular is that they were less high strung than the EXT cattle and generally more pleasing to the eye than some of the New Design cattle (some New Designs can be a little "cat as*ed"). These same defects could just as easily have occurred in 036 or EXT or Traveler 23-4. For that matter, if you selected only sires with breed average or worse EPDs you would have just as much likelihood of getting a genetic defect. Linebreeding does not create genetic defects; but rather it exposes them. IF Precision had just been a flash in the pan bull...everybody uses him for two years then moves on to something else....the defects would still be in the bloodlines tracing back to him. We probably just would not be aware of it. It was the fact that he was so popular the made people keep going back to him which ultimately exposed both defects.. [/QUOTE]
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