Irish Whiskey and PHA

[Angus Cattle Girl]

Recently, I have been looking at information on PHA and TH.

In a couple of articles I have read, they say that Irish Whiskey had a big influential start of PHA. They basically say that the breeding in his genes led up to this.

I know TH originally came from Galloways. And today is a problem in basically Shorthorns.

But does that mean that any bull that you breed with that has Irish Whiskey in its lines will carry the PHA with it? And also the same with cows and heifers?

 

[yellowdog6]

50% of his calves will carry PHA. If your intend to use his offspring for breeding stock, you will have to have a DNA test done on each calf. PHA is a very ugly genetic defect. You will lose the calf and you could lose the cow.

 

[yellowdog6]

I forgot to mention, if you use one of his offspring, be sure that he is tested PHA negative, and all club calf bulls should be tested for TH, also. You don't want to pass on these genes