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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1399916" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>One of my best grandma cows was a horned herf cow... however...</p><p>Is that little bit of heterosis on the polled gene going to put pounds on beef on the steers? How much?.. For arguments sake lets say it's 1%, so a 500 lb animal would gain an extra 5lbs. Where I am, there's a $10 "horn fee" for every animal, and the feedyard bidders pay less on top of it (Probably because they'll pay a $10 fee when they sell). That 5lbs of gained heterosis is in fact costing me because my market selects against it.</p><p>My option is then to dehorn everything which costs time and handling... I'll avoid it when I can.</p><p></p><p>All that said, my current homeraised bull is hetero polled, and most of my cows are hetero polled as well, which yields a 25% chance of a horned calf, 50% chance of a hetero polled calf, and 25% chance of Homo polled.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1399916, member: 9096"] One of my best grandma cows was a horned herf cow... however... Is that little bit of heterosis on the polled gene going to put pounds on beef on the steers? How much?.. For arguments sake lets say it's 1%, so a 500 lb animal would gain an extra 5lbs. Where I am, there's a $10 "horn fee" for every animal, and the feedyard bidders pay less on top of it (Probably because they'll pay a $10 fee when they sell). That 5lbs of gained heterosis is in fact costing me because my market selects against it. My option is then to dehorn everything which costs time and handling... I'll avoid it when I can. All that said, my current homeraised bull is hetero polled, and most of my cows are hetero polled as well, which yields a 25% chance of a horned calf, 50% chance of a hetero polled calf, and 25% chance of Homo polled. [/QUOTE]
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