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<blockquote data-quote="Dylan Biggs" data-source="post: 882797" data-attributes="member: 14282"><p>MrVictorDomino, this topic is of interest to me also. I have only been experimenting with concentrating my herds bloodlines since 2005. What intrigues me about the process is the prospect of an analogous population of cattle that basically regardless of the individual, when used to breed in a commercial application will pass on a reliable and consisitent functional maternal ability. The consisitency being bred into the population, not only the exemplary individual. Not that I don't enjoy or admire the exemplary individual, I do, but out of a long term concentrated herd the difference between 2 adequate sized contemporary progeny groups from the superior and the average individual the relative functional difference should be negligible. The calving record of your herd, "110 of 140 calves born this fall in the first 24 days, no drugs, no A.I., all natural service. The fertility is there." would indicate a bred in consistent functional ability nonreliant on the exemplary individual. Like you say there is always a bottom and room for improvement, but from a relative standpoint your herd appears to be well along. I am gald to hear you still inspired and looking forward to future matings and take inspiration from your continued enthusiasm. My own realtively brief experience has been more gratifying for me then the previous 19 years. Progress, relative to my goals is apparent and the product of my own doing. Not all and evry mating has been a success but niether were they before. The % of matings that I am satisfied with is greater than before and more importantly maternal functioning is already more reliable.</p><p></p><p>MrVictorDomino, you seem very aware of and attuned to selecting for a specific type that you consider preferable.</p><p>As regards the selection of herd sire prospects in your endevour to select for and fix your preferred type how much relative emphasis do you place on the phenotype of the individual prospect compared to the phenotype of the prospects dam. Will you forgive a prospect some type, excluding structural faults of course, if the dam has exhibited the type and demonstrated the function you desire? Especially if your future matings will utilize the prospect to concentrate the cow genetics.</p><p></p><p>DB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dylan Biggs, post: 882797, member: 14282"] MrVictorDomino, this topic is of interest to me also. I have only been experimenting with concentrating my herds bloodlines since 2005. What intrigues me about the process is the prospect of an analogous population of cattle that basically regardless of the individual, when used to breed in a commercial application will pass on a reliable and consisitent functional maternal ability. The consisitency being bred into the population, not only the exemplary individual. Not that I don't enjoy or admire the exemplary individual, I do, but out of a long term concentrated herd the difference between 2 adequate sized contemporary progeny groups from the superior and the average individual the relative functional difference should be negligible. The calving record of your herd, "110 of 140 calves born this fall in the first 24 days, no drugs, no A.I., all natural service. The fertility is there." would indicate a bred in consistent functional ability nonreliant on the exemplary individual. Like you say there is always a bottom and room for improvement, but from a relative standpoint your herd appears to be well along. I am gald to hear you still inspired and looking forward to future matings and take inspiration from your continued enthusiasm. My own realtively brief experience has been more gratifying for me then the previous 19 years. Progress, relative to my goals is apparent and the product of my own doing. Not all and evry mating has been a success but niether were they before. The % of matings that I am satisfied with is greater than before and more importantly maternal functioning is already more reliable. MrVictorDomino, you seem very aware of and attuned to selecting for a specific type that you consider preferable. As regards the selection of herd sire prospects in your endevour to select for and fix your preferred type how much relative emphasis do you place on the phenotype of the individual prospect compared to the phenotype of the prospects dam. Will you forgive a prospect some type, excluding structural faults of course, if the dam has exhibited the type and demonstrated the function you desire? Especially if your future matings will utilize the prospect to concentrate the cow genetics. DB [/QUOTE]
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