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<blockquote data-quote="Nick Wagner" data-source="post: 1710541" data-attributes="member: 25329"><p>I have been using my own bulls for some years now. One cow had a huge calf I suspect was sired by her son. Calf was dead by the time we got it out, cow and bull went to town. However, most of my calves hit the ground running, grow like bad weeds, and look like peas in a pod. If you have any recessive genes hidden in your herd, such as that dreaded red color you talk about, inbreeding will allow it to express itself. This can be serious, in the last decade there have been a number of recessive traits exposed in the angus breed, curly calf and developmental duplication only two of them, and inbreeding will allow them to express themselves if they are present. If you care to study history, the story of the dwarf gene in the Hereford breed was documented. How a bull born in 1899 spread that gene across the U.S. and eventually descendants of that bull were unknowingly mated. In many cases that dwarf gene went fifty years undiscovered, similar to what curly calf syndrome did a century later in the angus breed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nick Wagner, post: 1710541, member: 25329"] I have been using my own bulls for some years now. One cow had a huge calf I suspect was sired by her son. Calf was dead by the time we got it out, cow and bull went to town. However, most of my calves hit the ground running, grow like bad weeds, and look like peas in a pod. If you have any recessive genes hidden in your herd, such as that dreaded red color you talk about, inbreeding will allow it to express itself. This can be serious, in the last decade there have been a number of recessive traits exposed in the angus breed, curly calf and developmental duplication only two of them, and inbreeding will allow them to express themselves if they are present. If you care to study history, the story of the dwarf gene in the Hereford breed was documented. How a bull born in 1899 spread that gene across the U.S. and eventually descendants of that bull were unknowingly mated. In many cases that dwarf gene went fifty years undiscovered, similar to what curly calf syndrome did a century later in the angus breed. [/QUOTE]
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