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West Central Iowa | My "leading statements" about buying come from over-generalizations and radical decisions that people make. If producers didn't buy Herford because of their bad eyes and prolapses, Angus because of their defect possibilities, Red Angus because of OS, Simmis and Charlois because of their calving problems. Shorthorns and Maines because they are too showy and can't walk, Limis because they have no nuts, etc. there would be no cattle left for anyone to buy. I've read more comments on this site about how "I won't buy another Breed X bull because the last one I had only bred 3 cows." or "That breed Y bull I had was a crazy SOB fence jumper and I will never buy one again!" A majority of my comments relate to the fact that the breeding program and breeder tell more about a set of cattle than the breed does.
In regards to this thread, it seemed to me that it was pretty easy to pass possible fertility concerns to defects. IF the producer had a carrier bull and IF the producers entire herd of cows were carriers, your math was right. Likely that was not the case. Also, just because and animal is black (and had angus influence SOMEWHERE in their pedigree) it is a stretch to assume it came from a defect carrier due to carcass traits. Here is a Sim-Angus bull that has 1680 in his pedigree and is free of both defects. http://bullbarn.com/simmepd.asp?ID=468 Actually, of approximately 10 black Sim-Angus bulls on the Bull Barn website only one was a potential carrier of any defect. | |
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higher number of open cows, than I think feasible...
