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<blockquote data-quote="Northern Rancher" data-source="post: 829578" data-attributes="member: 5898"><p>I wondered about the Leptin gene because of the fact that 0709 is a high RFI bull-out of a very functional cow I might add-I'm just curious if there is a tie in to the two traits. The Waldorf ranch purchased 200 yearling heifers to breed from a very practical Hereford herd-when they first tested their cattle they found the majority were TT for Leptin. Maybe as we blunder along trying to make good practical ranch cows were are stumbling onto other things deeper in the puzzle. Our focus here is always the female the steers are just a byproduct-over all the cattle we've retained ownership on I've found that good functional cows can still produce steers that are acceptable for profitability on the rail. When you start to breed cattle worrying just about how the male end performs you can breed yourself out of a cowherd or into one that is expensive to run. The Waldorf that I manage is going to put about 500 calves on feed this fall so we'll be doing some in herd benchmarking-I'd say the breeding program up till now was leaning a bit more to the terminal type Angus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northern Rancher, post: 829578, member: 5898"] I wondered about the Leptin gene because of the fact that 0709 is a high RFI bull-out of a very functional cow I might add-I'm just curious if there is a tie in to the two traits. The Waldorf ranch purchased 200 yearling heifers to breed from a very practical Hereford herd-when they first tested their cattle they found the majority were TT for Leptin. Maybe as we blunder along trying to make good practical ranch cows were are stumbling onto other things deeper in the puzzle. Our focus here is always the female the steers are just a byproduct-over all the cattle we've retained ownership on I've found that good functional cows can still produce steers that are acceptable for profitability on the rail. When you start to breed cattle worrying just about how the male end performs you can breed yourself out of a cowherd or into one that is expensive to run. The Waldorf that I manage is going to put about 500 calves on feed this fall so we'll be doing some in herd benchmarking-I'd say the breeding program up till now was leaning a bit more to the terminal type Angus. [/QUOTE]
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