I have a few carriers but they are used as recips. Occasionally if they don't keep the embryo pregnancy, they are bred to a herd bull, and the resulting calves are tested after birth. Males that are carriers are steered, and heifers that are carriers either get fed out to slaughter or are kept as future recips. One of the carrier cows I have has produced a $9000 bull ( who was THF) and she has one of the best bulls this year and he is also THF. This year she decided to keep the embryo pregnancy and will calve next spring with an ET calf. I am not a fan of using known carriers, especially carrier sires, but I understand why it is done. My main concern is those who dump their carriers into a commercial operation. I don't think we need to be creating problems down the road for anyone in the commercial industry, when it is tough enough to make ends meet in this business. I fully understand that there is a wide range of opinions on this topic, but this is just how I feel about it.
I had a guy here recently who asked me to price one of my carrier cows. I told him that she was not for sale, as she was a TH carrier. He said that he did not care about that, but I refused to put a price on her. I need money like most anyone else out there, but I feel I needed to stick to my beliefs on this one. While I realize this is not the topic of discussion, I have much bigger issues with people who continue to use PHA carriers an a few of the other defects showing up in some other breeds. My wife is currently finisihing a dispersal catalog for a large herd of another breed, and I am amazed at the number of carriers of a wide variety of defects that some herds have. I have no idea ho someone new to this breed could ever keep all this information straight in their minds.