Ky hills
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I did not blame everything on inbreeding and I specifically said that I thought the genetics of the bull (from registered animals not from stockyards) were to blame for no milk. I did say that inbreeding of the sire to some of the daughters could have been a factor in the real small calves and possibly the deformed calf.You can not blame inbreeding for bad genetics. Inbreeding is like coming in to money, it will only highlight what you already have.
Trying to breed up from auction barn cows is a long row to hoe.
Yes a large part of our cows came from the stockyards as around 500 pound heifers. Some of those are now cows that have been in herd for 10+ years and we have retained daughters of them by other bulls that have done fine.
We have only been recently having milk issues and that is likely from a registered bull. I've also in the recent past had a small group of both registered Angus and Herefords, from those registered cattle cattle we have retained a few bulls.
The registered cattle are not stockyards purchased animals.
I agree whole heartedly that the quality of quite a few stockyards cows is lacking, we only have one cow that was purchased as an actual mature cow at a stockyards.
Yes, the heifers bought through the sale ring are a big risk, I try to be selective and buy better end small groups of heifers when looking for replacements. Typically those do ok, I would say the percentage of success from them as far as having and raising calves is on par or pretty close with home raised heifers be they registered or commercial.
Definitely you're right though. it's a big potential risk to buy in replacements.