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Our registry uses GeneSeek.  Their turnaround time has been running around 3 weeks. Let us know and we can help you.

We belong to several boards with members involved in dairy and beef.  We have seen quite a decline the last few months of members participating on these boards as well and some are having very little activity compared to just a few months ago. Facebook has taken some.  Part of it is life, with...

Was looking at some information and found out that in the UK the Whitebred Shorthorn is on the endangers list of breeds with only about 150 - 250 animals. The description of the Whitebred Shorthorn is: The Whitebred Shorthorn is a completely separate breed from the Beef Shorthorn or Dairy...

I have noticed in some of the dairy pedigrees that there are animals that show up as carriers even if both parents have been tested and are free. It may be that for the most part the test may show that an animal is not a carrier, but as with anything if everything happens to align just right an...

We have been hearing from different groups of breeds that the multi-breed EPD's aren't working for their breed of animals like they feel they should.  Some have mentioned that before the multi-breed EPD's many bulls were good on calving ease, but since the multi-breed EPD's started these same...

How many of you enroll your cattle into a Value Added Program to market your cattle?

Yes, this is true.  But the purebred breeders with original colored Simmental cattle are such a minority.  The Breed registries really DO NOT represent the breeds as they were originally founded for. Almost all of the Continental Breeds are so black that they are nothing more than an Angus with...

The last 2 weeks we have had calls from 3 different groups of breeders that are fed up with their breed association because they want to ignore the breeders of purebred animals in favor of the Black Angus composites. This is what has happened to most of the breeds.  Buyers continue to be color...

Yes there is a Black Charolais.  They are not diluted with Angus genetics.  The American Charolais Association refuses to recognize them, but the Canadian Association does.  There are a few breeders here in the U.S. and it does appear to be growing.  They do have a Composite they are calling an...

About 75 - 80 percent of the herds in the US fall into the 50 head or fewer category.  This group of producers contribute much to the local economies.  Property taxes, equipment, feed, repairs, groceries, etc and many of them have off farm jobs and incomes. Some of these producers have...

There are several breeds that are really composites.  Brangus, Brayford, Santa Gertrudis, Beefmaster come immediately to mind.  Many of these breeds are set percentages with most of them being a 5/8 x  3/8.  All of the Continental Breeds have gone black with the Angus influence.  For the most...

If the American Shorthorn Association won't recognize the Durham Reds, we as the Composite Registries would be honored to work with the Durham Red Breeders.

The evaluations for dairy cattle were released on Tuesday, August 7.  The still growing and developing North American Red  dairy cattle had an outstanding evaluation.  On the Elite list of cows, we had 73 of the top 100 cows of which the top 59 were all registered North American Red.  The Elite...

Tyson Foods (one of the big four packers) asked Cactus Feeders to help them create a source for a domestic (made in the USA), grass-finished beef product.  This product will be distributed through Walmart.  Walmart wants a consistent, high-quality product to compete with Amazon who recently...

We announced in March that our beef registry turned 5 years old.  Now our dairy registry is turning 5 years old as well. The Composite Dairy Cattle Registry is celebrating 5 years of service to owners and breeders of “non-traditional” dairy breeds in North America (USA and Canada), the UK and...

The genetic evaluations for the dairy breeds are sent to Interbull and pooled with breeds from other countries that participate with Interbull.  Then the data is brought back to the CDCB (Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding) where it is evaluated by breeds.  Holstein, Jersey, Brown Swiss, Ayrshire...

A traditional genetic evaluation takes into account an animals production, parent averages, type classification, and a few other pieces of information. With the dairy genomics, using hair, blood or tissue which is analyzed by the USDA.  There are a few different test that can be used and...

We just looked up the Holstein cow.  Here is a link to her story https://www.dairyherd.com/article/new-national-milk-production-record-set-wisconsin-cow We also looked to cow up in the CDCB (Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding) and she HAS NOT been genomic tested.  She does have a traditional...

The Composite Registries (Beef and Dairy) have turned 5 years old.  We have come a long way since we started.  We have provided export certificates for animals being exported to other countries.  We have had bulls registered with us enter into bull studs, have semen exported to Russia...

We use GeneSeek for our Genomic testing and they have a test for horned/polled