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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1398702" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>With the advances in technology these days maybe some day we'll see some kind of affordable "gene editing" with horned bulls where you can buy semen on a horned bull and the horn gene is taken out much like they sell sexed semen these days. For me I know what I am about to say some horned breeders don't like to hear but the best way to knock the horns off of good horned Hereford cattle is to start introducing some homozygous polled bulls into your program where you still keep the horned genetics but gradually start turning generations into good polled cattle. There are several long standing Hereford programs around the country that were mostly horned that are gradually turning more polled these days. One of the prime examples is the Rausch program in South Dakota. That program used to be mostly horned and over the years they have invested in some very good polled bulls and still remain one of the best Hereford breeders in the country who now are producing some very solid Polled Hereford cattle.</p><p></p><p>While we have a polled herd we have some horn genes back in some of our cows pedigrees and matched up with the right bull that also does we occasionally get a recessive horn gene that pops up. A few years back we had a dehorned bull in our sale pen that was out of both a polled dam and the bull that was probably the best bull of the bunch. Most of the commercial guys that inquired about our bulls wouldn't even consider him because they wanted a polled bull. Even after explaining that if they bred him to an Angus female it would result in a polled calf but they were still were leery about what was in the woodpile of their black crossbreds that they might still get horns and didn't want to deal with that possibility.</p><p></p><p>I've got nothing against horned Herefords and I don't mind some horned genetics in our pedigrees because you want the best performance you can get regardless. But there is a lot bigger market and demand out there these days for Polled Herefords and some of these guys that are in denial of that are missing out on opportunity by disregarding the polled side of the breed and not looking into introducing some proven polled bloodlines to their horned program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1398702, member: 20580"] With the advances in technology these days maybe some day we'll see some kind of affordable "gene editing" with horned bulls where you can buy semen on a horned bull and the horn gene is taken out much like they sell sexed semen these days. For me I know what I am about to say some horned breeders don't like to hear but the best way to knock the horns off of good horned Hereford cattle is to start introducing some homozygous polled bulls into your program where you still keep the horned genetics but gradually start turning generations into good polled cattle. There are several long standing Hereford programs around the country that were mostly horned that are gradually turning more polled these days. One of the prime examples is the Rausch program in South Dakota. That program used to be mostly horned and over the years they have invested in some very good polled bulls and still remain one of the best Hereford breeders in the country who now are producing some very solid Polled Hereford cattle. While we have a polled herd we have some horn genes back in some of our cows pedigrees and matched up with the right bull that also does we occasionally get a recessive horn gene that pops up. A few years back we had a dehorned bull in our sale pen that was out of both a polled dam and the bull that was probably the best bull of the bunch. Most of the commercial guys that inquired about our bulls wouldn't even consider him because they wanted a polled bull. Even after explaining that if they bred him to an Angus female it would result in a polled calf but they were still were leery about what was in the woodpile of their black crossbreds that they might still get horns and didn't want to deal with that possibility. I've got nothing against horned Herefords and I don't mind some horned genetics in our pedigrees because you want the best performance you can get regardless. But there is a lot bigger market and demand out there these days for Polled Herefords and some of these guys that are in denial of that are missing out on opportunity by disregarding the polled side of the breed and not looking into introducing some proven polled bloodlines to their horned program. [/QUOTE]
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