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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1819697" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>[USER=40587]@Warren Allison[/USER] I'd venture to say that several major movers and shakers in Angus and Herefords years ago intentionally brought in other breeds just so they could compete with the continentals. </p><p>They didn't have DNA testing back then, and like you said they could easily have made those registrations read anyway they wanted. </p><p>It had to be some major breeders and several of them for the breeds to have changed that much that quick. </p><p>I went to shows during the late 80's - 90's and it was not just 1 or 2 animals that towered over the rest it was pretty much every thing was similar just a difference in color and color patterns. </p><p>I could identify Chianina traits in all breeds Angus, Hereford, Charolais. </p><p>Even today in mainstream Angus cattle there are some very popular heavily used lines that are known to throw excess white, and the body types of some of those bulls that started those lines look a lot like black Holstein crosses in the AI catalog pictures. </p><p>@ farmerjan is right, those "Angus" cattle at the time. They got so tall so fast it could not have been just a random intentional or accidental thing, from what I saw it had to be a fairly concerted yet covered up venture to introduce other breeds into them. </p><p>I for one don't believe the story of how the polled Herefords came to be either, I think they had help from Red Poll, or Red Angus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1819697, member: 24816"] [USER=40587]@Warren Allison[/USER] I’d venture to say that several major movers and shakers in Angus and Herefords years ago intentionally brought in other breeds just so they could compete with the continentals. They didn’t have DNA testing back then, and like you said they could easily have made those registrations read anyway they wanted. It had to be some major breeders and several of them for the breeds to have changed that much that quick. I went to shows during the late 80’s - 90’s and it was not just 1 or 2 animals that towered over the rest it was pretty much every thing was similar just a difference in color and color patterns. I could identify Chianina traits in all breeds Angus, Hereford, Charolais. Even today in mainstream Angus cattle there are some very popular heavily used lines that are known to throw excess white, and the body types of some of those bulls that started those lines look a lot like black Holstein crosses in the AI catalog pictures. @ farmerjan is right, those “Angus” cattle at the time. They got so tall so fast it could not have been just a random intentional or accidental thing, from what I saw it had to be a fairly concerted yet covered up venture to introduce other breeds into them. I for one don’t believe the story of how the polled Herefords came to be either, I think they had help from Red Poll, or Red Angus. [/QUOTE]
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