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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 7048"><p>> They are also many more Angus</p><p>> ranches in production in Texas</p><p>> than as little as ten years ago.</p><p>> Angus seems to be the predominate</p><p>> breed in Texas now. All cattle have their good and bad points. The beef world has become quite carried away with the Angus. Here in Australia,hopefully things are starting to level out. Some cattle buyers at our saleyards won't touch Angus.I can remember 30 years ago there were not many Angus about,not many people wanted them ,they were small in some cases about the size of the Galloway,their temperament was no where near the docility of the lovely Galloway. Yes Australia needed a bit of a size boost. Now if I was an Angus breeder I would have concerns for the enormous gene pool loss that may occur if Angus breeders continue to use so much semen from a few select American or Canadian sires. Seems that breeders haven't acquired the skills that Charolais or Brahman breeders have in this country by using import blood, breed an Australian adapted animal then move on. There is no way that I could confidently use an Angus bull to help allay any calving problems. It just doesn't happen with the infusion of dubious American genetics. I am still puzzled as to how an old Scootish breed could have had such a massive increase in frame score without some other influence perhaps of Chianina. This point has i believe affected Angus in our country especially with doing ability and calving ease. We will only use an Angus bull with all Australian or New Zealand blood and only to breed black baldys as a good mum to cross our Brahmans and South Devons over. I think the Angus discussion has gone on for long enough lets move on to some other breed to bag for a while.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:colin.chevalley@bigpond.com.au">colin.chevalley@bigpond.com.au</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 7048"] > They are also many more Angus > ranches in production in Texas > than as little as ten years ago. > Angus seems to be the predominate > breed in Texas now. All cattle have their good and bad points. The beef world has become quite carried away with the Angus. Here in Australia,hopefully things are starting to level out. Some cattle buyers at our saleyards won't touch Angus.I can remember 30 years ago there were not many Angus about,not many people wanted them ,they were small in some cases about the size of the Galloway,their temperament was no where near the docility of the lovely Galloway. Yes Australia needed a bit of a size boost. Now if I was an Angus breeder I would have concerns for the enormous gene pool loss that may occur if Angus breeders continue to use so much semen from a few select American or Canadian sires. Seems that breeders haven't acquired the skills that Charolais or Brahman breeders have in this country by using import blood, breed an Australian adapted animal then move on. There is no way that I could confidently use an Angus bull to help allay any calving problems. It just doesn't happen with the infusion of dubious American genetics. I am still puzzled as to how an old Scootish breed could have had such a massive increase in frame score without some other influence perhaps of Chianina. This point has i believe affected Angus in our country especially with doing ability and calving ease. We will only use an Angus bull with all Australian or New Zealand blood and only to breed black baldys as a good mum to cross our Brahmans and South Devons over. I think the Angus discussion has gone on for long enough lets move on to some other breed to bag for a while. [email=colin.chevalley@bigpond.com.au]colin.chevalley@bigpond.com.au[/email] [/QUOTE]
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