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<blockquote data-quote="Alberta farmer" data-source="post: 708170" data-attributes="member: 8978"><p>Adding horned Hereford genetics into a polled herd used to be fairly common. This was done to "beef up" the polled Herefords and get rid of their skinny butts! I am sure the polled Herefords have these desired traits within the breed now but at one time they didn't. </p><p>At Innisfail Alberta the Hereford Association used to have a bull test center. 50% of the bulls(about 100 selling) were sold in a sale at the test center. Very few polled bulls made the cut and hardly any in the top 20%. Frankly they just weren't as good...and most of those polled bulls at the test center were from the top polled breeders in western Canada.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alberta farmer, post: 708170, member: 8978"] Adding horned Hereford genetics into a polled herd used to be fairly common. This was done to "beef up" the polled Herefords and get rid of their skinny butts! I am sure the polled Herefords have these desired traits within the breed now but at one time they didn't. At Innisfail Alberta the Hereford Association used to have a bull test center. 50% of the bulls(about 100 selling) were sold in a sale at the test center. Very few polled bulls made the cut and hardly any in the top 20%. Frankly they just weren't as good...and most of those polled bulls at the test center were from the top polled breeders in western Canada. [/QUOTE]
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