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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1842170" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>Yeah? ...NO.</p><p>I worked for the largest meat chicken source for breeding stock In the eighties, and they really looked at their birds. Mostly after the feathers were removed.</p><p></p><p>And pork is the same, which is why Landrace made such an impact on hog production and why Durocs don't get a lot of attention. </p><p></p><p>Personally, the only criteria I've found useful in the numbers are weaning and yearling weights. Any of the maternal characteristics I want should be exhibited in the cow I'm breeding and in the dam of the bull I'm choosing... and that same thing can be said of the bull. If my cow has a weakness it will be demonstrated within a limited number of pregnancies with the only exception being longevity, which will be obvious when they are still raising calves in the upper percentiles of the herd at over ten years.</p><p></p><p>People like numbers, but I'd put my results up against anyone... and I looked at my cattle and made my determinations from that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1842170, member: 42463"] Yeah? ...NO. I worked for the largest meat chicken source for breeding stock In the eighties, and they really looked at their birds. Mostly after the feathers were removed. And pork is the same, which is why Landrace made such an impact on hog production and why Durocs don't get a lot of attention. Personally, the only criteria I've found useful in the numbers are weaning and yearling weights. Any of the maternal characteristics I want should be exhibited in the cow I'm breeding and in the dam of the bull I'm choosing... and that same thing can be said of the bull. If my cow has a weakness it will be demonstrated within a limited number of pregnancies with the only exception being longevity, which will be obvious when they are still raising calves in the upper percentiles of the herd at over ten years. People like numbers, but I'd put my results up against anyone... and I looked at my cattle and made my determinations from that. [/QUOTE]
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