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<blockquote data-quote="El_Putzo" data-source="post: 193784" data-attributes="member: 1017"><p>I can only speak for Herefords in the US, but I have to respectfully disagree. Your comments interested me so I did a little research. I went on the AHA pedigree lookup and searched for every bull that is currently ranked within the top 35% among all sires for the following traits: CED, BW, WW, YW, Milk, M&G, CEM, SC. I left off the parameters of the carcass traits as I was not getting any hits because my search was too specific. My findings were just as I was hoping. The polled and horned strains each had nearly the same amount of bulls that met my criteria, with the polled strain having a slight advantage with 15 and horned strain having 14. Now, these are not necessarily "trait leaders", but they are breed improvers in all of the above listed traits. As I said, I can't speak for those of you in Canada, but for those of us in the good ol US of A, it seems that Polled and Horned Herefords appear to be on a pretty even playing field as far genetic qualities can be measured with EPDs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="El_Putzo, post: 193784, member: 1017"] I can only speak for Herefords in the US, but I have to respectfully disagree. Your comments interested me so I did a little research. I went on the AHA pedigree lookup and searched for every bull that is currently ranked within the top 35% among all sires for the following traits: CED, BW, WW, YW, Milk, M&G, CEM, SC. I left off the parameters of the carcass traits as I was not getting any hits because my search was too specific. My findings were just as I was hoping. The polled and horned strains each had nearly the same amount of bulls that met my criteria, with the polled strain having a slight advantage with 15 and horned strain having 14. Now, these are not necessarily "trait leaders", but they are breed improvers in all of the above listed traits. As I said, I can't speak for those of you in Canada, but for those of us in the good ol US of A, it seems that Polled and Horned Herefords appear to be on a pretty even playing field as far genetic qualities can be measured with EPDs. [/QUOTE]
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