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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 612130" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>Always better to start as close to where you want to be as possible, bearing in mind linebreeding is more likely to make them smaller than to make them taller. Ideally the purists would say not to bring in outside blood, that's why the selection of the original population is so important. Having said that I would rather address an issue early on than be foolhardy and sit with a problem I cannot get out a few years down the line without going outside the line.</p><p></p><p>As it has been said before cattle breeding doesn't equate to the average of the two parents in real life, that only happens statistically because <strong>there isn't a better way to describe the random division of genes in the offspring</strong>. In theory 66% of the offspring will fall within one standard deviation of the average of the two parents. "IN THEORY" being the operative words here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 612130, member: 4353"] Always better to start as close to where you want to be as possible, bearing in mind linebreeding is more likely to make them smaller than to make them taller. Ideally the purists would say not to bring in outside blood, that's why the selection of the original population is so important. Having said that I would rather address an issue early on than be foolhardy and sit with a problem I cannot get out a few years down the line without going outside the line. As it has been said before cattle breeding doesn't equate to the average of the two parents in real life, that only happens statistically because [b]there isn't a better way to describe the random division of genes in the offspring[/b]. In theory 66% of the offspring will fall within one standard deviation of the average of the two parents. "IN THEORY" being the operative words here. [/QUOTE]
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