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The EPDs are AOK but the bull is a DD carrier http://abs-bs.absglobal.com/beef/angus.asp?CodTouro=29AR0183 this bull will give you great females, beautiful udders, sound cattle and will increase frame score, but will give up bone and some growth...

Well you basically have a cross bred heifer who happens to have the clubby creator of the worlds smallest pelvis Heat Wave in her pedigree. I would only consider a high accuracy calving ease bull - my preference would be Red Angus but certainly there would be some of high accuracy in other...

I would suggest that you have your vet look at the calves - swelling around the joints is NOT usual in SP. In fact swelling of joints of calves is most likely related to septic arthritis (ie naval ill) or injury until proven otherwise. You didn't say how many calves are involved or how often you...

aj - I was told in the range of 4.8 to 5.1

Glad to hear that telos - been a long time since we talked old Maine pedigrees I have a vague recollection that we eliminated Novino about the same time we eliminated Covino III, Black Gold, Epinal etc (the last 3 by test) so I thought we had tested him - we certainly were able to find some...

All right - cyber space ate my reply - how are you telos? Paramount is a Univers grandson, while Dalton is Univers son. The CMAA lists 3 cows named Sibelle only one with a pedigree and her sire is Novino (and we know he is PHAF because he was tested). The molecular markers suggest that...

if he was bred by bobby Maddox they just stuck a paper on him. Looks to me like David gilger bred the dam who was out of a cow bred by Wallace Wilkinson in ky. Baileys probably bought the cow bred to sdr monument in a g&f sale. Don't think monument was ever collected and sdr and g&f were...

Gains was a really nice complete stout bull - he was a fullblood (Stinger wasn't) and IMHO a much better bull

He is a PHA carrier and is responsible for most of the PHA carriers in the Shorthorn breed. His reg # is 111205. He was a Sir Monument son, born in 1985, 94% Maine, bred by Bobby Maddox and I believe that he was red, not red and white - I may have a picture

REALLY? What you clearly don't get is how the system works. Breeders and or veterinarians (sometime they are one and the same) identify abnormal calves that have the same or similar phenotype and see that there are similarities in pedigree. Samples are then collected and used for DNA testing to...

Who was/is responsible to teach this kid proper care of his animals? Who teaches the kid what is right and what is wrong with regards to animal care? Who is his mentor? What FFA adult is helping him? Isn't FFA suppose to be an educational experience? If the kid has no guidance what does it say...

Yeah - a little bit - but not much  ;) Mycoplasma pneumonia was first identified in dairy calves and one of the hallmarks of the disease is droopy ear(s) with discharge - since 2000 it has emerged as an issue in beef cattle. Mycoplasma also causes mastitis (dairy calves can get infected by...

Good Labor Day all- You may remember the notomelia (polymelia) description from earlier. The mutation has been identified and commercial tests are becoming available. Originally it was felt that a large number of homozygous embryos/feti were aborted in the first 2 trimesters because the number...

YUP! You can get a DS half if the calf inherits the DS mutation from both parents OR if the calf inherits the DS mutation from one parent and the PHA mutation from the other parent. Interestingly the DS-PHA mutation combo is more severe that the DS-DS mutation combo

call your vet - cattle do not get EPM but they can suffer from other neurological diseases. Doesn't matter if it is an injury, metabolic or neurological problem rapid diagnosis and treatment will provide the best hope of recovery - cattle that fall over or are down develop severe complications...

Gotta love the logic - because we all have "broken genes" - including us humans - we should accept lethal recessive defects and move on - same logic that Select Sires is using to continue to sell DD carrier Angus bulls - not entirely sure but don't believe there are many humans with or...

Yes sue the mutation has been identified and samples can be submitted to Dr B at the U - analysis of samples will cost $8 per sample until the test is licensed and commercially available at which point the U will no longer be able to accept samples. Blood (the old PURPLE TOP TUBE) is the...

Thanks for the email AAOK : )

Yup - I have said all along that how a breeder handles genetic defects says a lot more about them as a person that it does about the defect : )

There are a number of bulls with the name "Sting Ray" listed on the AMAA and ACA web site search - this bull, son of Sugar Ray, may be the one you are looking for http://www.acaregistry.org/detail.aspx?reg=166254