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<blockquote data-quote="Herefords.US" data-source="post: 591485" data-attributes="member: 3972"><p>Nope! If you waited until you had PERFECTION before you started linebreeding, you'd never start - you would always be "tinkering" with the genetics by constantly introducing outside blood to correct the small faults. That's the trouble with many breeding programs. They are always adding "new blood" in search of breeding that ONE perfect animal and they end up with a genetically cosmopolitan herd that requires a need to AI to ten different bulls to find the best individual matches for all their cows. And too often that one PERFECT animal produced (an outlier!) has a genetic makeup so heterozygous that he/she is almost always a disappointment when put into service. That kind of breeding program can make for a great dispersion sale though! There's usually something there for almost everyone!</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying there isn't times when the introduction of outside blood might not be necessary(Frank Felton did it several times) but it is usually most effective when introduced to address a particular fault, then followed up by subsequent generations of linebreeding.</p><p></p><p>The Prospector line is an excellent example of showing that tremendous results can be achieved from a less than perfect beginning. The line was started with animals that carried the recessive gene for dwarfism. Through selection and linebreeding, not only was that gene completely eliminated, but the ancestors of your favorite Hereford bull, 517, were bred.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.witherspoonsherefords.com/WNHWEB11.HTM" target="_blank">http://www.witherspoonsherefords.com/WNHWEB11.HTM</a></p><p></p><p>Quoting from this article:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Rocket, you can keep searching for that bull to produce that PERFECT offspring - or you could already have him now. But you won't really know how good he is until you can look at some 5 generation pedigrees a decade or so from now, see his name in them 4 or 5 times, and know that the results are better and more consistent than what was started with....maybe still not PERFECT, but much improved in those traits being selected for.</p><p></p><p>George</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herefords.US, post: 591485, member: 3972"] Nope! If you waited until you had PERFECTION before you started linebreeding, you'd never start - you would always be "tinkering" with the genetics by constantly introducing outside blood to correct the small faults. That's the trouble with many breeding programs. They are always adding "new blood" in search of breeding that ONE perfect animal and they end up with a genetically cosmopolitan herd that requires a need to AI to ten different bulls to find the best individual matches for all their cows. And too often that one PERFECT animal produced (an outlier!) has a genetic makeup so heterozygous that he/she is almost always a disappointment when put into service. That kind of breeding program can make for a great dispersion sale though! There's usually something there for almost everyone! I'm not saying there isn't times when the introduction of outside blood might not be necessary(Frank Felton did it several times) but it is usually most effective when introduced to address a particular fault, then followed up by subsequent generations of linebreeding. The Prospector line is an excellent example of showing that tremendous results can be achieved from a less than perfect beginning. The line was started with animals that carried the recessive gene for dwarfism. Through selection and linebreeding, not only was that gene completely eliminated, but the ancestors of your favorite Hereford bull, 517, were bred. [url]http://www.witherspoonsherefords.com/WNHWEB11.HTM[/url] Quoting from this article: Rocket, you can keep searching for that bull to produce that PERFECT offspring - or you could already have him now. But you won't really know how good he is until you can look at some 5 generation pedigrees a decade or so from now, see his name in them 4 or 5 times, and know that the results are better and more consistent than what was started with....maybe still not PERFECT, but much improved in those traits being selected for. George [/QUOTE]
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