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I apologize for not taking a sample from the calf, which we lost--my theory of myo is speculation, but surely something was out of the ordinary?  Canadians reported calving problems in homozygous calves, so I wondered if ours was a myo? This calf was far outside our normal weight range.  We...

4282869 is the 2018 calf that inspired us to test our herd bull for myostatin.  At least 5 prominent Shorthorn bulls are in his pedigree as well as other widely-used bloodlines from the past.  Since a huge calf had not been born here in decades, one has to wonder if myostatin was coming into...

From the applied genetics point of view, the F94L might be useful.  What if any of your cows are carriers of E226?  If a resulting calf were to be homozygous E226, would that not be risky?  Judging from the Canadian testing of Shorthorns, E226 bull carriers now are at near 70 head.  Some...

No, it is only at Cattlevisions.

On Digitalbeef (Canadian) his BW is 73 lb.

All 1625 calves have been born unassisted and are vigorous.  His last two this month were out of first calf heifers, so the shape of the calves is desirable for calving ease.  Birth weights tend to follow the dam of his calves, about like old Hot Commodity.

When I saw Hot Commodity on pasture, maybe in 2017 in Iowa (so he was old), he looked quite good--HC has no holes in him.  Denny Jordan used to have 40 HC daughters, and that was several years after the bull left Jordan Acres; they get the job done.  We have had a couple first calf HC daughters...

Leveldale, Jungels, Sull, and others have crossed some more showy lines on KL cows with success.  A few years ago I was at Leveldale and Les had a whole pen full of KL heifers he's purchased.  Loving Farms have incorporated Keith Lauer blood into their large herd.  KL cattle do everything a cow...

Everyone wants to produce a calf that is put together well like that one.  Do we get in touch with you or Jim to order semen?

Does anyone have the results from this year's Star Search sale at Cates?  Doc, were you there? 

5 should be very close, but he has not been measured for quite a while.  SIGC (Southern Indiana Grazing Conference) speakers do not like anything much larger than a frame 5, and that is nearly unanimous year after year.  Allen Williams, there in 2018, runs 100 bulls, so he is not an amateur...

A ton at maturity is an educated guess, although a touch bigger is not out of the question.  Both his yearling EPD and calving numbers are similar to his sire, Hot Commodity.   

Maybe both JJC Wild Side and FF Redman were purchased after our seeing them on the Cattle for Sale Classifieds?  Both those bulls were purchased sight-unseen from reputable breeders, and they were just as the breeders described them.  I'm okay with it either way--keeping classifieds as they are...

Homeplace Hot Commodity 1625 is myostatin free of all three mutations.  The test results came back today.  It is on digitalbeef, if you want to look it up.

https://csa.digitalbeef.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=_miscellaneous&file=genetic_conditions More myostatin will be found as U.S. breeders increasingly test for DM.  Surely Canadians do not like to waste money, and they test as a service to their customers.  It is a North American problem...

Muridale Thermal Energy is clean for Myostatin E226X (E226X).  Thanks to Bowman Superior Genetics for being transparent.  Let's hope other owners of AI sires follow suit.  Will entire cow herds need tested?  In the beginning let's test all AI bulls as well as walking bulls.  Here's my take on...

GAFA MOCHICAN is in Hot Commodity's pedigree.  In our pastures the cows expect calves by 3 myostatin untested AI sires with Mohican in the pedigree this fall.  Since there are many Shorthorns with Maine genetics in them in the U.S., on the pedigree as well as some whose breeders "forgot to write...

We all need to be life-long learners.  One reason we watch DS so much is that our former sire JJC Wild Side was a DS carrier.  Since we see lots of merit in his daughters, we have tested around it and retain the worthy clean ones as breeding stock.  Fortunately, the PHA carriers tend to be...

DS--from ASA website  Be sure to pay attention to the last sentence. Digital Subluxation (DS) is not a lethal condition from a genetic inheritance standpoint. Animals known as homozygotes are cattle that carry two copies of the undesirable gene. Homozygotes of DS, referred to as “DSH” in the...

Our cattle were tied next to Great White Hope at the state fair.  I was highly impressed with the amount of feed that he ate, maybe the most I ever saw.  This does not reflect on Hope's ancestry, but Columbus sired one daughter for us that was belt-buckle high on a six foot tall man.  That small...