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<blockquote data-quote="smnherf" data-source="post: 680402" data-attributes="member: 3235"><p>I agree too. Herefords had the problem with dwarfism long before EPDs came around. If you ever get a chance to read Battle of the Bull Runts, one thing that was found to be a determining factor in these genetics being propagated within the breed without anyone knowing it was the breeders past experiences in Holstein cattle. In a previous enterprise he owned a bull that was outproducing everything with lots of documentation to back him up but once they found him to sire a few red ones, nobody would buy the bulls offspring. He then vowed to never breed anything back to anything that was related. He used the same philosophy in Hereford cattle and it just so happened to be that the bull that was most poplular also contained the dwarfism gene. </p><p></p><p>The epd chasers arent any different than those that chase the show ring or those that chased the frame race or the carcass race or even the performance race. I find those that tend to be on the breed leading cutting edge, no matter the trait, have the tendency to overlook other things in order to get there. We have to focus on the entire package rather than just chase single traits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smnherf, post: 680402, member: 3235"] I agree too. Herefords had the problem with dwarfism long before EPDs came around. If you ever get a chance to read Battle of the Bull Runts, one thing that was found to be a determining factor in these genetics being propagated within the breed without anyone knowing it was the breeders past experiences in Holstein cattle. In a previous enterprise he owned a bull that was outproducing everything with lots of documentation to back him up but once they found him to sire a few red ones, nobody would buy the bulls offspring. He then vowed to never breed anything back to anything that was related. He used the same philosophy in Hereford cattle and it just so happened to be that the bull that was most poplular also contained the dwarfism gene. The epd chasers arent any different than those that chase the show ring or those that chased the frame race or the carcass race or even the performance race. I find those that tend to be on the breed leading cutting edge, no matter the trait, have the tendency to overlook other things in order to get there. We have to focus on the entire package rather than just chase single traits. [/QUOTE]
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