Santas and Duhram Reds
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do you agree
Read this the other day
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Red Bull Breeder
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Its possible. Look at how many are being sold now, and at what breeders have done to there breeds just to change hide color. Alot of the purebred limousin have been bred black to black so much trying for homo polled and homo black that the limi blood in them is getting pretty watered down, but if they get to weak they can just reg. them limflex.
Santas and Duhram Reds":2bilxfr7 said:
I guess it depends on what you call a composite? Are Gerts a composite breed? Brangus? Murray Greys? But, no, I don't agree. I think as the beef industry strives to be more efficient, they'll turn more and more to cattle that have been tested and proven. It's going to take generations of testing and breeding to get the newer composites on the same playing field as established, proven breeds. Will enough breeders be willing to do that?
Santas and Duhram Reds
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Many purebred breeders have begun raising a composite breed on the side. I agree that many generations need to be established before the composites will be able to match their "proven" purebred counterparts; but I also believe enough people are willing to invest that time.
Here is a quote from the same article
Many of these newly developed composite breeds are created to chase after a short term market imo.
What are we setting ourselves up for? Are many of these composite breeds the set up for less profitable cattle? I've read many articles that cattlemen are getting "smarter" and making more informed decisions about their cattle breeding selections. Yet this doesn't seem very smart at all.
I realize that I too have a composite breed with the Durham Reds, so I am adding to the problem by creating a demand; however, the D.R.'s are mainly used to cross with my Santa bulls to form sets commercial Star5 heifers. So in a way, I am also utilizing a breeding up program to combat the growth of composite breeds. :lol2:
here is a link if anyone wants to read the breed promotion article in its entirity. http://www.shorthorn.org/_Shorthorn/Documents/Durham Red.pdf
oh yeah,
I would like to think that Breeds such Gerts, Brangus, and Murray Grey have been in existence too long to be considered a composite breed anymore. They also have set requirements for the amount of blood from each parenting breed. In many composites you can have anything more or nothing less than 25% of each of the parenting breeds.
Here is a quote from the same article
Many of these newly developed composite breeds are created to chase after a short term market imo.
What are we setting ourselves up for? Are many of these composite breeds the set up for less profitable cattle? I've read many articles that cattlemen are getting "smarter" and making more informed decisions about their cattle breeding selections. Yet this doesn't seem very smart at all.
I realize that I too have a composite breed with the Durham Reds, so I am adding to the problem by creating a demand; however, the D.R.'s are mainly used to cross with my Santa bulls to form sets commercial Star5 heifers. So in a way, I am also utilizing a breeding up program to combat the growth of composite breeds. :lol2:
here is a link if anyone wants to read the breed promotion article in its entirity. http://www.shorthorn.org/_Shorthorn/Documents/Durham Red.pdf
oh yeah,
I would like to think that Breeds such Gerts, Brangus, and Murray Grey have been in existence too long to be considered a composite breed anymore. They also have set requirements for the amount of blood from each parenting breed. In many composites you can have anything more or nothing less than 25% of each of the parenting breeds.
