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Re: OT question about angus heifers
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Posted by kyhayman on January 27, 2007 at 06:32:59 from (76.177.155.220):
In Reply to: OT question about angus heifers posted by Chris in WI on January 26, 2007 at 19:31:21:
A true purebred angus heifer bred to any breed bull would continue to have polled offspring. I use the reverse of this and occassionally add a registered angus bull to my breeding program to both clean up horns that begin appearing and to darken up my cattle. I normally use polled charolais bulls, which may or may not be carrying a recessive gene for horns. Over time, horns begin appearing more and more frequently, and my cattle get whiter and whiter. When I start getting more than 25% pink nosed calves, Im getting too much charolais. Just curious about the direction of this? Using a cross bred bull on purebred heifers? Seems like this is closing a lot of doors with EPD's. It's an interesting idea on getting extra heterosis into the calves and skipping a generation but I'd be real concerned about spiking birthweights.
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