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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 571233" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>Maybe it is just me; but I want a purebred cow to be as homozygous as you can get her. I am not saying what the perfect frame score is (entirely different argument) but "in a perfect world" a frame 5 cow(feel free to insert your favorite number), has a frame 5 momma, a frame 5 daddy, 2 frame 5 grandaddys, and 2 frame 5 grandmommas. Same with EPDs. I would rather not see -1 and +8 Birth Weight EPDs in the parents to get a moderate +3.5. That is telling me that we are waaaay heterozygous for those genes. I would rather not buy the offspring of one of Jim Lents' linebred anxiety 4th cows crossed to Key Note or OB Joyful and then hear some sellsman telling me about it being "moderate". What it is is unpredictable and if I cross that too x-bred commercial cows I get unpredictable offspring. I don't think that you are going to consistently get 1200 lb commercial cows by using purebred bulls with 3000 lb bulls closeup in the pedigree.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 571233, member: 7645"] Maybe it is just me; but I want a purebred cow to be as homozygous as you can get her. I am not saying what the perfect frame score is (entirely different argument) but "in a perfect world" a frame 5 cow(feel free to insert your favorite number), has a frame 5 momma, a frame 5 daddy, 2 frame 5 grandaddys, and 2 frame 5 grandmommas. Same with EPDs. I would rather not see -1 and +8 Birth Weight EPDs in the parents to get a moderate +3.5. That is telling me that we are waaaay heterozygous for those genes. I would rather not buy the offspring of one of Jim Lents' linebred anxiety 4th cows crossed to Key Note or OB Joyful and then hear some sellsman telling me about it being "moderate". What it is is unpredictable and if I cross that too x-bred commercial cows I get unpredictable offspring. I don't think that you are going to consistently get 1200 lb commercial cows by using purebred bulls with 3000 lb bulls closeup in the pedigree. [/QUOTE]
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