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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 16258"><p>I totally agree with all of that, we have been doing ultrasound testing for the past 6 years, on both AI sired calves, calves from out ET program and our natural service sires. I have seen no cost benefit from a production and sales stand point, but in terms of helping select females for retention, I have beed selecting females with higher marbling characteristics, many are not quite as pretty as the Show type females, but they are very fertile, well made females, and if in the future I will be able to make more due to long term planning I will be that much further ahead of the game. I agree, removal of horns is the best way to go, preferably geneticly, but the other methods work too, I just wish we could see more people getting it done more agressively, so there would be no meat loss due to bruising, or people being injured by the wayward passing horn. What I did notice from the research data, was that Shorthorn cattle are the highest indexing trait carriers for the homozygous tenderness genes, I knew I liked them for a reason, other than the fact they are nice to look at. I am a Limi breeder, considering the costs & benefits of testing a battery of bulls for tenderness.</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:kemilimo@tca.net">kemilimo@tca.net</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 16258"] I totally agree with all of that, we have been doing ultrasound testing for the past 6 years, on both AI sired calves, calves from out ET program and our natural service sires. I have seen no cost benefit from a production and sales stand point, but in terms of helping select females for retention, I have beed selecting females with higher marbling characteristics, many are not quite as pretty as the Show type females, but they are very fertile, well made females, and if in the future I will be able to make more due to long term planning I will be that much further ahead of the game. I agree, removal of horns is the best way to go, preferably geneticly, but the other methods work too, I just wish we could see more people getting it done more agressively, so there would be no meat loss due to bruising, or people being injured by the wayward passing horn. What I did notice from the research data, was that Shorthorn cattle are the highest indexing trait carriers for the homozygous tenderness genes, I knew I liked them for a reason, other than the fact they are nice to look at. I am a Limi breeder, considering the costs & benefits of testing a battery of bulls for tenderness. [email=kemilimo@tca.net]kemilimo@tca.net[/email] [/QUOTE]
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