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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1797671" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>See, I interpreted [USER=8993]@kenny thomas[/USER] 's OP differently. and Kenny, please correct me if I am wrong. I thought he was saying that, when the current fad cools off, and people start getting rid of them. how likely are they to infiltrate the commercial herds, and what impact will the miniature genetics have? How long would it take to breed out once it was breed in? People may sell or give them to someone else like them....but who has a little bigger place and has regular sized cattle as yard ornaments. Or take them to the sale barns. What is the result of a cross with a mini Zebu and a Brahma? A mid-sized Brahma? I don't recall seeing any pot-belly pig crosses with hogs. but I see people running miniature and dwarf goats with standard goats all the time? Are the kids a size somewhere in between? There are miniature donkeys, standard donkeys, and Mammoth jackstock. How they are registered is determined by their height. A mini donkey crossed with a mammoth may produce a standard, for example. Does a mini Jeresy bred to a Jersey result in a mid-size Jeresy? Or, could a Jeresy bred to a mini produce a regular size, and the resulti9mng calf be bred back to a regular size and produce a regular size, but maybe THAT one could be bred to a regular size and that calf end up being a mini? If so...if that "mini gene" got into a Jersey or Brahma or whatever herd.... how many times bred back to regular Brahmas or Jereseys would it take to breed out the "mini gene"? Am I close, [USER=8993]@kenny thomas[/USER] ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1797671, member: 40587"] See, I interpreted [USER=8993]@kenny thomas[/USER] 's OP differently. and Kenny, please correct me if I am wrong. I thought he was saying that, when the current fad cools off, and people start getting rid of them. how likely are they to infiltrate the commercial herds, and what impact will the miniature genetics have? How long would it take to breed out once it was breed in? People may sell or give them to someone else like them....but who has a little bigger place and has regular sized cattle as yard ornaments. Or take them to the sale barns. What is the result of a cross with a mini Zebu and a Brahma? A mid-sized Brahma? I don't recall seeing any pot-belly pig crosses with hogs. but I see people running miniature and dwarf goats with standard goats all the time? Are the kids a size somewhere in between? There are miniature donkeys, standard donkeys, and Mammoth jackstock. How they are registered is determined by their height. A mini donkey crossed with a mammoth may produce a standard, for example. Does a mini Jeresy bred to a Jersey result in a mid-size Jeresy? Or, could a Jeresy bred to a mini produce a regular size, and the resulti9mng calf be bred back to a regular size and produce a regular size, but maybe THAT one could be bred to a regular size and that calf end up being a mini? If so...if that "mini gene" got into a Jersey or Brahma or whatever herd.... how many times bred back to regular Brahmas or Jereseys would it take to breed out the "mini gene"? Am I close, [USER=8993]@kenny thomas[/USER] ? [/QUOTE]
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