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<blockquote data-quote="glacierridge" data-source="post: 1228727" data-attributes="member: 19539"><p>I always understood it that the muscling was the bigger culprit, tho I could be wrong.</p><p>That is why I think the DM breeds have been selected for calves that show the muscling after birth, weeks after being born, over sires that have thrown calves displaying the "double muscling" at birth.</p><p></p><p>I thought it wasn't just the dam's pelvis, but the structure of the calf the dam grew in her womb.</p><p>We've seen some problems before we started crossing with breeds for better calving. The high percentage blood that we had used in the past (15-20 years ago) before better selection was in place often had a heavily muscled cow birthing a heavily muscled calf.</p><p></p><p>My understanding is that now the calves develop more of the muscling after the birthing process, that is one of the sire selection traits?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="glacierridge, post: 1228727, member: 19539"] I always understood it that the muscling was the bigger culprit, tho I could be wrong. That is why I think the DM breeds have been selected for calves that show the muscling after birth, weeks after being born, over sires that have thrown calves displaying the "double muscling" at birth. I thought it wasn't just the dam's pelvis, but the structure of the calf the dam grew in her womb. We've seen some problems before we started crossing with breeds for better calving. The high percentage blood that we had used in the past (15-20 years ago) before better selection was in place often had a heavily muscled cow birthing a heavily muscled calf. My understanding is that now the calves develop more of the muscling after the birthing process, that is one of the sire selection traits? [/QUOTE]
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