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Continued... Fast twitch and slow twitch muscle, cortisol, energy storage in muscle, brown fat, heat production, on and on..all related to myostatin regulation. Myostatin is involved  a fascinating evolutionary story of RNA response to fluctuating energy demands in females. We are seeing F94L...

To Knabe s’ question, do I want the mutations? At this point, I am selecting for F94L because I inadvertently line bred for it through the Maid of Promise 189th cow. There was a flush of this cow and ET bulls produced from that flush from Weston Trademark 3rd, Weston Surprise 14th, Ball Dee...

If the bull in question is Waukuru T Marshall, then it would be worthwhile testing the bulls behind him again, as well as  LaFraise Duke 3rd. As Sherlock Holmes said, first eliminate the impossible.

For instance, this is a bull I own. The DNA tab will take you to testing information....if the information has been shared with the ASA. I do not know when myostatin testing became more common...often I research animals the myostatin columns are blank.

This actually is very relevant to Shorthorn Breeders because, lbs pedigree inference on carrier animals,  the F94L mutation runs in bloodlines going back to Scottshill Major Clark. Potential carrier Tea for the Tillerman ...then Thornwood Major...Spiro...even Columbus and Clark should be F94L...

https://www.academia.edu/263862/Myostatin_Rapid_Sequence_Evolution_In_Ruminants_Predates_Domestication

I am still studying the F94L mutation. This is a “conservative” mutation, where there is a substitution of one amino acid with similar function for another. The mutation is non disruptive. I need some common sense help on a hypothesis concerning Myostatin role in glucose metabolism and some...

Thanks, JW. Haumont must of found him useful. They used him for 7 years....131 progeny. This helps me very much. I’m curious because I have His Image in one of my Native heifers,

I‘m always interested in that color pattern. I just saw her locally on craigslist and inquired what the Angus side was and when I saw that pedigree I thought...wow, this sure is lucky.. Felix needs the exercise so it will be okay to wait a year to breed her back Angus. He is stout enough, but...

102 degrees yesterday

I brought the heifer home yesterday and she sure is nice. I was happy to see she had not been overfed. Its so hot I just turned her out so she could get to pasture shade and pond water...Ill just let Felix breed her and AI next year.

That Eric Bull is too heavy to put on heifers, although the BW is fine. There are some yearling sons of his being developed, maybe I’ll put her in with one of them. Eric makes nice uniform calves, but none of the daughters are in production yet. OCC sale catalog from this year has a good section...

Pretty interesting

Just because

I’m thinking Great Plains because the Angus I’m around go heavily to E31, so I could aim that way.  There is a bull walking here, SVR Embody Eric that is another option. Lots of Emblazon. I’m very interested in your 2 cents on this. This is essentially a Speckle Park reenactment, grafting the...

Thanks. I read Hunter as Homer here, so the bull is not actually double bred Homer...but I’ll take Hunter any day. Can you explain to me how to search progeny on AAA?

Does anyone have experience using this Angus bull on heifers? I have an Angus x British White  heifer that is double bred Homer on top and I would like to breed her OCC.

What Haumont bull is involved?

A good question is whether the wild type red allele exists in Shorthorn. In Galloway, for instance, an animal that expresses wild type red will have a muzzle so dark that it appears black. The same coloration is seen in Red Angus. On cows, there will also be very dark hair around the muzzle and...

Beebe, according to Weston Price head shape (cranial narrowing) and consequent crowding of teeth and squeezing of nasal passages will follow a change in diet toward refined foods. I heard from an oldtimer Galloway breeder and feeder that feeding grain eventually results in long heads. Think...