alexfarms
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The thing that bothers me most about this thread is that alot of it is probably true. To tie all of this together in a very WEIRD way back to cattle breeding..... I had a conversation with a man who was and is today known as one of the most talented linebreeders of recent times. He told me he used a linebred line and sold many darn good bulls out of the line to neighboring commercial cattle producers. He then outcrossed the line onto new, hotter bloodlines through AI and ran into severe genetic problems. He was discouraged and kicking himself for ever moving away from that previous linebred line. He recalled a man he sold a bull to many years earlier out of that linebred line and he had recently talked to him and he said he still had that old bull and was getting super calves from him even after breeding him back to his own daughters. He told me he decided to pay the commercial man a visit see if that bull really was inbreeding that well. He said he was a bit uneasy when he got to the commercial man's "place" as things appeared a little "backward". He told me there were piles of cattle bones stacked high and he asked me if I had ever seen the movie "Deliverance". He looked at the calves and they looked very good and he noticed there was only the one bull and he said 'so these calves are the result of breeding that bull back to his daughters?' and the commercial man responded 'well, this is the second time, these calves are the result of breeding that bull back to his daughters daughters who were sired by him...' So the linebreeder bought the bull back and reintroduced the bloodline back into his purebred herd and did very, very well with them. Yes, it was in Missouri.