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IMO, this all boils down to the general public not understanding what agriculture does for them on a daily basis.  I had this conversation with a lady that works at the place I get my cell phones the other night, she's a self proclaimed city girl from Chicago but moved to my hometown (not sure...

There's many genes involved in coat color and pattern.  In this case, you'd be concerned with 3 main ones that have been published thus far.  The red/black locus is called MC1R.  Red is recessive to black.  We'll use E for the black allele and e for the red allele.  The blue roan is EE or Ee. ...

If you are going to ship an ear, freeze the ear, then pack it good with cold packs.  As long as you ship it and it's going to get wherever within about 3 days it should be good, especially this time of year.  Shipping tissues on dry ice is definitely recommended if said tissue is going to be...

I think that this involving back legs is just a coincidence.  There are a lot of things that are involved in limb formation, thus a lot of chances for things to go wrong. My guess is something else was going on because TH calves ALL have abdominal hernias.  justintime's description is the...

Dr. Miles McKee put together a history of Animal Science at K-State book a few years back.  He gave a talk about it in one of the classes I was in.  Very interesting stuff.  He's a great teacher, speaker and man.

The reasoning behind only wanting Shorthorn samples is because the data analysis will show breed differences as significant areas on a chromosomes, essentially giving false positives so to speak. If you want a more in depth explanation feel free to PM me. DL is right though, if you have a calf...

knabe, I'm not sure I'm following what you are saying about "essentially free test development".  Are you complaining or saying it's a good thing?

Holy cow this thing has exploded since I was last on... Can someone confirm this for me:  As far as I've seen, there is NOT obvious relation between the dams of affected calves and the sire in question, or there IS relation?  Sorry, not going to lie, skipped a lot of the posts.

Oooh ok I get what you are saying.  There's a lot of things that can make or break a heifer's potential to milk from day 1 other than genetics alone.  So maybe its the way that THC cattle get taken care of from the beginning??  As in, in the club calf/show cattle industry we (as a general...

Physiologically, being a THC should have nothing to do with a cow's ability to milk.  I think it has more to do with the other genetics that are brought along with the bloodlines that are THC. 

Thank you vcsf for your points! I agree with you!

I don't think there is anything about fertility that can be determined from a hair sample for bulls.  If you are wanting to see if he's fertile or not, your best bet is to have a Breeding Soundness Exam done.  The only fertility related test that can be done from hair samples (i.e. DNA) that I...

irh, what are you trying to figure out as far as fertility on your bull?

Did you have the correct email address for AgriGenomics?  [email protected]  The i's sometimes trip people up.  The prairieinet.net server has been having issues.  I sent an email to someone else with that server and it bounced back to me too.

TwistedH, be careful when you talk about height.  Height is considered more of a quantitative trait because there are many genetic factors that go into it as well as the environment playing a roll.  I haven't heard the sex influence on coat color, interesting idea.  The colorblindness thing is...

I'm not 100% sure on that.  The easiest explanation is that he did have some horn in him along the way, they just didn't know or weren't told about it.  You'd have to do some research on what alleles are present in each breed.  Eventually I hope to have this whole coat color thing licked and on...

OH Breeder is correct.  Roan isn't carried in the sense that the genetic defects we talk about are.  The MGF locus has 2 alleles that are co-dominant.  IRIR gives you a solid, pigmented animal (black or red for example).  Ir Ir gives you a solid non pigmented animal (white).  IRIrgives you a...

The Show, the new laws affect almost all family farms because most are incorporated or owned by parent/child(children) or siblings for example.  It makes it that children can only work for operations solely owned by a parent and under the supervision of said parent.  I totally agree with you...

I think the biggest reason people switch out of Animal Science majors is because they started out pre-vet, decided they don't want to go to vet school, and then aren't told there are plenty of other options with an an sci degree.  I don't think hiring young professors is a problem, but I do...

It's been our experience that the only thing Chiropractic work in animals fixes is injury.  If you have one that is bad structured, its not going to fix the problem, although it might temporarily relieve it.  The guy who does ares does massaging in the area he's going to adjust and has us hold...