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To hopster, yes. In these times of mega dairies owned by investors from abroad, silage piles rising like from the South Dakota prairie like landfill mountains, and beef sires being genotyped for optimal cross breeding traits to re-dual purpose the robot managed milk cows...one cannot wonder...

All this is information found along the path while (whilst) I am searching for something to tie selection for “favorable” casein alleles to mutations ( amino acid substitutions) involving myostatin, growth hormone, energy metabolism, etc etc etc. In this paper, they mention a selected for casein...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276259761_Domestication_and_Genome_Evolution

oakview, you are very right about that. Village Beau would be an extreme example of Heritagerois..sorry...I don’t know about Palermo, but there was, to me, an extra nice 26A son down at Haumont.

This bull, for example, looks like a beef type Shorthorn, but would his daughters produce beef like the Hub’s daughters. I seriously doubt it, unless he were crossed on dual type cows. This is the wheel most Heritage Breeders are reinventing...a tradition of crossing beef type on dual type. It...

To me Hub’s Director is a good example of a Native Dual Purpose Shorthorn type. Could you call him a beef type-No. A dairy type-no. Those with experience, how would he have worked for producing low input high butterfat producing cows?

I am using Native dual purpose because, like beebe, my purpose is grass finishing. My belief is that Shorthorn genetics, and the genetics of other Native dual purpose breeds, are more flexible in their ability to balance the many energy trade offs involved in milk production and resource...

Thanks, idalee, I made a typing error. The correct reg# is 4191717. Tattoo 2011. I’m going to fix it in the post above.

4191727. Check out progeny. Edit...this is the wrong reg #. The correct # is 4191717.

Anyone who has not visited Haumont really should.

I just bought a Native Dual Purpose bull from Haumont in Nebraska. I'm getting a few females together from  different Native/Heritage breeders.This North Dakota CSB Maid of Promise cow is going to be my foundation female. Thats an early April heifer calf on her.

Maybe this is better...Cherry Filet

Speaking of catalogs, did you guys see the picture of Cherry Filet in the Studer’s Sale catalog? I had never seen an adult picture of him.

I’m glad you guys are out there. Even with these incessant ads they are afflicting us with, there is no place like Steer Planet.

Yes! Thanks so much. This is the one. Who is holding him?

I used to have a picture of someone, maybe Don Cagwin, holding Kenmar Ransom. Maybe we even talked about it on here. Does anyone remember that picture? Thanks

From the above paper

This is a great observation, especially when compounded with amount of energy available for rumen fermentation. “ Even though the outcome is different, there are similarities in dairy and beef cattle from a nutrigenomic perspective. For instance, both the synthesis of milk fat in dairy cows and...

In fact, as a test these,  I think I will carry on line breeding for homozygotes and report back later on carcass quality as well as feed intake and disease resistance. “ Corresponding to the effects on collagen, the F94L myostatin variant genotype increased tenderness. The homozygous F94L AA...

No, not in any extreme phenotypic way. If there is some kind of metabotype advantage in terms of feed intake and bone to muscle ratio, reduction of back fat and increase in tenderness, increased disease resistance or enhanced cold weather frugal maintenance or an A2 A2 milk fat connection,I’m...