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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 615370" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>That's why I don't buy completely into all the linebreeding stuff. Purebred beef cattle herds exist to serve their customers NOT the flights of fancy of the breeder. That a bull is 55% linebred Anxiety the Fourth (and I don't believe anybody's pedigrees are really accurate for 20 generations) is not worth a diddly UNLESS you have people who will pay you for those genetics. Some people do have a customer base that covets that kind of purity and those kinds of cattle. If you do have that sort of loyal following or think you can build it go for it and deliver the cattle that your niche market craves. Other people to sell bulls have to chase EPDs, performance, show ring trophies, frame, the popular bull of the minute, red necks, white necks, polled heads, horned heads, eye pigment or whatever it is that floats the boat of the people who come to their sales and buy cattle off of their farm. Linebreeding is great; but if the ranches you supply are demanding growth, carcass characteristics, EPDs, etc that the linebred cattle can NOT deliver, then it is time to add an outcross line. That is sort of what killed a lot of the Anxiety the 4th, Prospector, and Victor herds in the 80s-90s. The market demanded outcross genetics and a lot of people either went totally to the outcross losing the linebred lines they previously were marketing or they went out of business because they no longer produced cattle which they could market.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 615370, member: 7645"] That's why I don't buy completely into all the linebreeding stuff. Purebred beef cattle herds exist to serve their customers NOT the flights of fancy of the breeder. That a bull is 55% linebred Anxiety the Fourth (and I don't believe anybody's pedigrees are really accurate for 20 generations) is not worth a diddly UNLESS you have people who will pay you for those genetics. Some people do have a customer base that covets that kind of purity and those kinds of cattle. If you do have that sort of loyal following or think you can build it go for it and deliver the cattle that your niche market craves. Other people to sell bulls have to chase EPDs, performance, show ring trophies, frame, the popular bull of the minute, red necks, white necks, polled heads, horned heads, eye pigment or whatever it is that floats the boat of the people who come to their sales and buy cattle off of their farm. Linebreeding is great; but if the ranches you supply are demanding growth, carcass characteristics, EPDs, etc that the linebred cattle can NOT deliver, then it is time to add an outcross line. That is sort of what killed a lot of the Anxiety the 4th, Prospector, and Victor herds in the 80s-90s. The market demanded outcross genetics and a lot of people either went totally to the outcross losing the linebred lines they previously were marketing or they went out of business because they no longer produced cattle which they could market. [/QUOTE]
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