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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 739967" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>I don't think it is that big a deal with the commercial heifers. If you have a preexisting generic herd of black commercial cows you likely already have SOME carrier cows so adding MORE carrier females isn't really going to change your situation much. I am not going to take the financial hit of depoping good cows at the commercial level over this. Most commercial heifers go to the stockyard, the feedlots, and get their heads chopped off and most of the few people who buy their replacements by the pound at the stockyard are saavy enough to be following the AM and NH thing. The management does not change any. Whether you have NO carrier cows or all the cows are carriers, you want to buy herd bulls that are either tested free of the two defects or are cleared by pedigree. As long as you keep the sires free, you will never see this defect, even if every cow you own is a carrier. I honestly am more worried about buying heifers from a trich or BVD II infected herd than I am about picking up the AM or NH gene in a commercial environment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 739967, member: 7645"] I don't think it is that big a deal with the commercial heifers. If you have a preexisting generic herd of black commercial cows you likely already have SOME carrier cows so adding MORE carrier females isn't really going to change your situation much. I am not going to take the financial hit of depoping good cows at the commercial level over this. Most commercial heifers go to the stockyard, the feedlots, and get their heads chopped off and most of the few people who buy their replacements by the pound at the stockyard are saavy enough to be following the AM and NH thing. The management does not change any. Whether you have NO carrier cows or all the cows are carriers, you want to buy herd bulls that are either tested free of the two defects or are cleared by pedigree. As long as you keep the sires free, you will never see this defect, even if every cow you own is a carrier. I honestly am more worried about buying heifers from a trich or BVD II infected herd than I am about picking up the AM or NH gene in a commercial environment. [/QUOTE]
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