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oakview, I think of any statement that could have been made,this is the most accurate statement.  well said!

That is the same problem here in the US.  What the AMSS did when they allowed those outside breeds, they gave them full Milking Shorthorn numbers.  When we started our registry, we were noticing that many of our Scandinavian breeds were showing a percentage of Milking Shorthorn.  After following...

Red Holstein is not allowed in the Heritage Shorthorn.  The American Milking Shorthorn Society has allowed a great amount of Red Holstein genetics into the breed.  There are Milking Shorthorn animals that are over 50% Holstein blood. The amount of actual Milking Shorthorn blood in the breed is...

To be verified as a Heritage Shorthorn the animal has be 100% full blood Shorthorn (no outside blood can be incorporated into the pedigree), and all ancestors must trace to the 1822 Coates Herd Book. The only list that is on the Heritage Shorthorn Society website are those that are verified as...

https://www.heritageshorthorn.org/application-verification

To increase the visibility and utilization of Heritage Shorthorns in the cattle industry it is paramount to have a Registry that is focused both on preserving Heritage genetics, and on the utilization of Heritage genetics within modern Shorthorns (Heritage Influenced). The Heritage Shorthorn is...

The Heritage Shorthorn Society website was launched 2 years ago to help Heritage Shorthorn breeders preserve, promote, and produce Heritage Shorthorns while developing an expanded niche in the cattle industry.  As an organization HSS has tried to be both nimble and dynamic as it responds to the...

To some degree knabe, you are probably right. We are having a discussion right now with dairy breeds.  The CDCB (Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding) has came out with BBR (Breed Base Representation) where the breed percentages of an animal can be determined by the DNA SNP's. While we ourselves...

knabe, it seems that you are against genomic testing, that is fine but to each his own. Genomics are a tool, but I can say that, yes, they are over used and abused.  They are used to market dairy and beef bulls and cows, used in calculating genomic enhanced EPD's and evaluations, etc. Many...

The GeneSeek Igenity profile was designed and validated for crossbred or straightbred cattle with backgrounds of Angus, Red Angus, Simmental, Hereford, Limousin and Gelbvieh This test has 16 traits and tenderness is among them. This test will work for box taurus breeds.  My understanding with...

From our understanding, there are certain alleles that are common among the bos Taurus breeds.  But beyond those common alleles there are differences between the breeds. So in each trait there is the possibility of having from a few to several alleles.  For example in a single trait there could...

I definitely agree on Hawkeye!  And if you are thinking of selling semen, they can store it and ship it too!

The bull does have some good ancestry. It is a fact that there are and will always be bulls that can outperform bulls that are in the bull studs, but for some reason most people want to use the flavor of the month. Given the fact that he has worked well in your herd and the outstanding...

Heard back from the owner of the calf.  What he found out is that this Maximilian is an F1 Brangus that was never registered.  He was unable to find out any more information beyond that. What we don't understand is why some Club Calf breeders and owners feel that registering their animals is...

Thank's for the information, was surprised to find out it may possibly be an Angus. This very well could be him, not sure yet.  I did talk to one of our members who is pretty familiar with Club Calf bulls and that is who he speculated it to be as well. I am waiting on a call of email from the...

Does any one have any information on the Club Calf bull Maximilian?

Most breed association that allow for breeding up, at the 7/8 (87.5%) they will call them purebred and then in calculating animals that are sired by or out of the 7/8 animal it is figured at 100%.  This is wrong in so many ways, but if 7/8 animals are used in breeding up resulting animals will...

I wonder that if some of these skunk tailed animals could be the result from breeds used in breeding up?  When we have researched the ancestry of some animals, we have found that they go back to a Holstein.  We know that the Holstein and the Lineback are very closely related. Genetics are a...

Gramps is supposed to be able to be modified for livestock.  Never tried it. We just put our dairy pedigree database online and it does as you are asking.  Any time an animals appears more than once in a pedigree it highlights them.  Many of our dairy pedigrees go back to the 60's and a few we...

This is the first that I have heard of DM in the Normande breed.  They are one of the few breeds that we register that they have not introduced any outside breed influence that we have found.