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Attached are the DNA results for Mandalong Super Flag showing him free of myostatin variants. Another animal to remove from the speculation list!

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I think it's because I introduced the myostatin to my herd a dozen years earlier and then brought it back in. The fact the test became available will probably prevent a lot of doubling up and a lot of grief. A breeder can use a myostatin carrier now and follow with a clean bull and not run into...

I guess it depends on one's tolerance for dystocia. Our neighbor had a wreck with it last year with $1500 worth of vet bills and two dead calves. His current bull is myostatin free. Is this topic relevant to him? I used two heifer bulls one was a 84 lb BW and one was 72 lb. As long as they were...

We used to get the myostatin test results direct from Igenity. Neogen purchased Igenity and at the beginning of 2019 they purchased Delta Genomics the lab a lot of Canadian breeds used for their testing. I believe all the myostatin testing was done by Neogen as they owned the test. They test for...

An interesting presentation done by the Speckle Park. The variant genes affecting myostatin were only discovered between 1998 and 2000 and the availabble tests are relatively recent. I thought the variation in types due to selection also interesting...

I think the article in the link below is very good. It mentions that myostatin was first observed 200 years ago "The Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society directors are also aware that there are examples of cattle within the Beef Shorthorn breed that appear to be exhibiting characteristics associated...

It's not Mandalong Super Flag he had 1352 offspring in the ASA and 673 in Canada, there are numerous cattle in the Canadian herd book that trace to him between 30 and 60 times, myostatin would have been everywhere if he was the carrier. Most Canadian carriers trace to the cow in the link above...

MILL BROOK RANSOM G 9 3550480 https://shorthorn.digitalbeef.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=_animal&file=_animal&search_value=&animal_registration=3550480&member_id= MILL BROOK RANSOM G NINE 2975  3641922...

Ramrod never had a significant number of calves hit the ground until 2008, so the first offspring were not producing until 2009, 2010 and they sure were not half sibling matings. Couple the free offspring with the out cross bloodlines being used and it takes time to get to a significant number...

It takes awhile to spread throughout a herd and only half the offspring are carriers. If you use a non carrier relative back on the carriers you are going to get unaffected calves and only 25% will be carriers. What is 25 years 3 to 5 generations? If you started with a free herd there is no way...

Myostatin is real and it needs management! It takes a carrier bull to follow a carrier bulls daughters to find that out. (Typically it just drifts along in a herd until you bring in that second bull. A neighbor of ours bought a small herd with some very good cows in it. The last year the young...

Neogen does the Canadian Shorthorn Association's DNA testing. We usually do the mysostatin on our bulls now bundled with the 50K and get a savings on the myo test and the 50K gives us parentage testing and genomically enhanced EPD's. Since bulls in Canada have to have a DNA parentage test before...