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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 592553" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>Yes, you have it right. </p><p></p><p>The problems the holstein breed have at the moment was caused by the breeders not the breed itself. If a beef breed just focusses on EPDs and push performance higher and higher with complete disregard for phenotype and other functional traits and the environment the cattle have to perform in it won't be long till the beef breed has the exact same problems. The two major beef breeds today has experienced that as well and some herds is still chasing those numbers.</p><p></p><p>To come back to holsteins... I'd go back and use semen from older bulls that still had acceptable phenotype that are as unrelated as possible to the popular lines of today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 592553, member: 4353"] Yes, you have it right. The problems the holstein breed have at the moment was caused by the breeders not the breed itself. If a beef breed just focusses on EPDs and push performance higher and higher with complete disregard for phenotype and other functional traits and the environment the cattle have to perform in it won't be long till the beef breed has the exact same problems. The two major beef breeds today has experienced that as well and some herds is still chasing those numbers. To come back to holsteins... I'd go back and use semen from older bulls that still had acceptable phenotype that are as unrelated as possible to the popular lines of today. [/QUOTE]
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