Dyer Show cattle said:
If you don't have meyer in your backround already sounds like a good bull to try. If your like me though I started out with some meyer 734 grandaughters and I have kept ever single heifer they have ever had so just another meyer bull I cant use. The market is so flooded with meyer brothers, sons, doublebreds that even if I didn't have meyer I would have no idea which one to pick.
Actually line breeding these cattle is what makes them real good. It doesn't work on clubbies, ( Not enough room to discuss that!) But on proven breeding cattle it is what singles out the outliers, or the best or worst. Linebreeding or inbreeding depending on everyone's definition, allows similar traits or genes to become more apparent, either good or bad.
In other words mating this bull which is a grandson of 734 to a granddaughter of 734 would be, in most cases probably ideal. And nearly no chances of problems in relation to their breeding. You make the best traits of each animal stronger.
The sire of Trifecta is OCC Magnitude and he has inbreeding coefficient of 10.25% Bulls like 6807 and Emulation show up in his pedigree several times. In the cattle business people have always tried to keep bloodlines distant, which promotes hybrid vigor and heterosis. This is a good idea!
Watch the Kentucky Derby next Saturday nearly all racehorses are inbred, some with a coefficient as high as 25% which is a father- daughter, brother -sister, or mother-son, mating.
Sorry to ramble, just pointing out that if you want to make them consistently good and maybe get a champion, this may be something to consider. IMO
