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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 640871" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>The bull is only 50% of the DNA in any given animal; but the sire and maternal grandsire are 75%. If you take a step back, the sire, the maternal grandsire, and the bottom end maternal great grandsire is 87.5% of the animal. IF I know a lot about all three of those animals, I know an awful lot about the animal even if there is not a lot of data in on that dam. Most of the data is going to be on the male end as they generate a lot more calves. I am not saying not to walk behind the barn to look at the animal's dam and if she has another couple of calves out there you can see great; but if I see no phenotypical problems with her, the animal we are buying, or the sibs, and I have a mountain of data on 87.5% of the pedigree I am not going to get all upset because the dam only has three animals in the database.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 640871, member: 7645"] The bull is only 50% of the DNA in any given animal; but the sire and maternal grandsire are 75%. If you take a step back, the sire, the maternal grandsire, and the bottom end maternal great grandsire is 87.5% of the animal. IF I know a lot about all three of those animals, I know an awful lot about the animal even if there is not a lot of data in on that dam. Most of the data is going to be on the male end as they generate a lot more calves. I am not saying not to walk behind the barn to look at the animal's dam and if she has another couple of calves out there you can see great; but if I see no phenotypical problems with her, the animal we are buying, or the sibs, and I have a mountain of data on 87.5% of the pedigree I am not going to get all upset because the dam only has three animals in the database. [/QUOTE]
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