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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1583431" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>I thought of one more thing that can guide a balanced selection of animals from a historic perspective: </p><p></p><p>Breeders, breeds, herds and lines run their courses. They build, they peak, they continue popularity after the peak and then they are disdained. You can mention specific lines, herds and breeders' names and see a pattern. The warning to me is to never push a line beyond it's strengths or the point where it is doing well in the environment that you create to make it shine. Human nature plays a part in that we all want something new and shiny. A little outcross here and a little more outcross there and suddenly you have a name but you do not have the goods. I think people hate the outcross and the final generations and apply the problems back to the animals that were good but are linked to the problems unjustly. Just a thought.</p><p></p><p>The current thing that skews any beef selection today is the single trait selection for hide color. It is great for marketing but does nothing to make the basic functional cow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1583431, member: 24565"] I thought of one more thing that can guide a balanced selection of animals from a historic perspective: Breeders, breeds, herds and lines run their courses. They build, they peak, they continue popularity after the peak and then they are disdained. You can mention specific lines, herds and breeders' names and see a pattern. The warning to me is to never push a line beyond it's strengths or the point where it is doing well in the environment that you create to make it shine. Human nature plays a part in that we all want something new and shiny. A little outcross here and a little more outcross there and suddenly you have a name but you do not have the goods. I think people hate the outcross and the final generations and apply the problems back to the animals that were good but are linked to the problems unjustly. Just a thought. The current thing that skews any beef selection today is the single trait selection for hide color. It is great for marketing but does nothing to make the basic functional cow. [/QUOTE]
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