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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 770855" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>Exactly, I don't know why the 4 biggest studs don't do this just as a means of protecting themselves and identifying the problems and the superior. It wouldn't even cost much. Find a commercial ranch or two to assemble a 1000 cows. Agree to AI their whole cow herd for them each year, market their calves for them, and give them ~$50 per cow per year in a bonus check ($50g every June or July should be incentive enough to lure somebody) in exchange for picking the matings and controlling the genetic direction of their herd. $50 g, one AI crew two cycles a year, ~900 DNA tests, ~2000 straws of semen from that stud's 20 most popular sires, and the cooperation of one feedlot is all this should cost.</p><p></p><p>I think Angus breeders are reluctant to linebreed because when Angus went from the dumpy little fineboned pony cows they used to be to the big framed (and frame 5 is big compared to what they were 40-50 years ago) cows that outweigh most Simmentals and Charolais the total gene pool contracted. Angus breeders were much more forward thinking and adopted AI and ET on a much bigger scale than most breeds did. The knowledgable Angus guy is aware of all this and probably is not to eager to go back and revisit some of the flaws in that 7 frame generation that most Angus pedigrees have 5 or 6 generations back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 770855, member: 7645"] Exactly, I don't know why the 4 biggest studs don't do this just as a means of protecting themselves and identifying the problems and the superior. It wouldn't even cost much. Find a commercial ranch or two to assemble a 1000 cows. Agree to AI their whole cow herd for them each year, market their calves for them, and give them ~$50 per cow per year in a bonus check ($50g every June or July should be incentive enough to lure somebody) in exchange for picking the matings and controlling the genetic direction of their herd. $50 g, one AI crew two cycles a year, ~900 DNA tests, ~2000 straws of semen from that stud's 20 most popular sires, and the cooperation of one feedlot is all this should cost. I think Angus breeders are reluctant to linebreed because when Angus went from the dumpy little fineboned pony cows they used to be to the big framed (and frame 5 is big compared to what they were 40-50 years ago) cows that outweigh most Simmentals and Charolais the total gene pool contracted. Angus breeders were much more forward thinking and adopted AI and ET on a much bigger scale than most breeds did. The knowledgable Angus guy is aware of all this and probably is not to eager to go back and revisit some of the flaws in that 7 frame generation that most Angus pedigrees have 5 or 6 generations back. [/QUOTE]
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