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<blockquote data-quote="Nick Wagner" data-source="post: 1759744" data-attributes="member: 25329"><p>A lot of truth in what you write Travlr, but Inbreeding has nothing to do with genetic anomalies. In fact what inbreeding will do is expose any hidden recessive genes. You seem have a lot more faith in genetic testing than I do, testing can only find known faults.</p><p></p><p>A number of years ago, and for a number of reasons, I started experimenting with using my own bulls. As a result I missed out on curly calf syndrome all the way to developmental duplication, I believe those are the first and the last genetic flaws announced by the AAA in modern times. Before that, trying to produce better calves for the kids to show, I would breed a few cows to bulls in the tank. Most of the time those AI calves were not keepers, this baffled me for years. For many years I had a $1,500 budget when bull shopping, any bull in the tank should be better than the bull I had in the pasture. But the calves proved different. So I did a lot of studying, and pondering. I am now damaged goods, a lunatic, for inbreeding my herd and may never sell a registered bull again.</p><p></p><p>However, a couple years ago we bred a few cows AI. Once again I was disappointed with the resulting calves, didn't keep a single one. So it appears, at this point anyway, I haven't repressed my calf crop. We are aware, maybe concerned, about getting too inbred, so last month in a larger experiment bred fifteen cows AI. Time will tell.</p><p></p><p>You talk about moving goalposts. I've witnessed show champions go from belt high, to taller than me, and other extremes. Forget that. Raise cattle that thrive on your farm or ranch. The goal, whether you're raising CAB eligible cattle or not, is still beef on the table. Healthy, nutritious, great tasting beef. And forget that low fat nonsense pushed by your government.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nick Wagner, post: 1759744, member: 25329"] A lot of truth in what you write Travlr, but Inbreeding has nothing to do with genetic anomalies. In fact what inbreeding will do is expose any hidden recessive genes. You seem have a lot more faith in genetic testing than I do, testing can only find known faults. A number of years ago, and for a number of reasons, I started experimenting with using my own bulls. As a result I missed out on curly calf syndrome all the way to developmental duplication, I believe those are the first and the last genetic flaws announced by the AAA in modern times. Before that, trying to produce better calves for the kids to show, I would breed a few cows to bulls in the tank. Most of the time those AI calves were not keepers, this baffled me for years. For many years I had a $1,500 budget when bull shopping, any bull in the tank should be better than the bull I had in the pasture. But the calves proved different. So I did a lot of studying, and pondering. I am now damaged goods, a lunatic, for inbreeding my herd and may never sell a registered bull again. However, a couple years ago we bred a few cows AI. Once again I was disappointed with the resulting calves, didn’t keep a single one. So it appears, at this point anyway, I haven’t repressed my calf crop. We are aware, maybe concerned, about getting too inbred, so last month in a larger experiment bred fifteen cows AI. Time will tell. You talk about moving goalposts. I’ve witnessed show champions go from belt high, to taller than me, and other extremes. Forget that. Raise cattle that thrive on your farm or ranch. The goal, whether you’re raising CAB eligible cattle or not, is still beef on the table. Healthy, nutritious, great tasting beef. And forget that low fat nonsense pushed by your government. [/QUOTE]
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