Genetic Defect Book

[aj]

Looks like someone should write a book on genetic defects......new technologies......etc etc etc. It could cover the old dwarfism stuff with the Herfords to the latest stuff. If you had a chapter on almost every breed......you could market the book via breed magazines and etc. Beevers or several people should get together and do it.

 

[knabe]

Crickets

 

[oakview]

I'm afraid the book would be way too technical for most producers.  Maybe a photo album would be better, complete with defective animals and the producers that benefitted from them.  Wouldn't that be a great photo?  Just like the great hunter, bow and arrow at his side, raised foot on the shoulder of the 18 point buck, the 4-Her could be knelt at the side of their beloved show heifer, fresh c-section scar on her side, their mouth agape at the sight of that PHA calf.

 

[aj]

It would be a book for animal scientists and animal husbandry people. Fascinating stuff following pedigrees. Finding dna markers. Remeber when people didn't know if a th marker would be found or not. The battle of the bull runts......book fascinated me. Is it weird that a to win a steer show they have to be a carrier of a lethal genetic defect. There is a heck of a irony there. The Improver bull and his legacy. St. Louis Lad........tester cows......a regular soap opera....imo.

 

[knabe]

Why write a book when it's on steer planet.

 

[knabe]

Do you have any defects left in your herd?

 

[aj]

Still have some old Dog Soldier daughters that are th. All females are tested unless both parents were tested free.

 

[knabe]

Still have some old Dog Soldier daughters that are th. All females are tested unless both parents were tested free.

and the carrier bulls are taken to denver?

 

[frostback]

(lol)

Still have some old Dog Soldier daughters that are th. All females are tested unless both parents were tested free.

and the carrier bulls are taken to denver?

(lol) (clapping) <party>
But only he can do this. Everyone else is a crook and cant be trusted.

 

[aj]

And carrier bulls taken to Denver? I don't get it? Sodhouse Pepper Red was tested th and pha clean.

 

[frostback]

And carrier bulls taken to Denver? I don't get it? Sodhouse Pepper Red was tested th and pha clean.

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Re: Top 5 short red bulls for sale this year

« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2010, 06:34:38 PM »

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Yes frostback. Sodhouse charlie 802 is a th carrier. I have 10 or more th carrier cows. Charlie had a 86# birth weight and is out of a super Sodhouse Dog Soldier daughter. He was kind of a mistake but he ended up as a bull. Not huge boned and not huge birth weight but someone may use him in the club calf deal. I may go to hell for it I don't know.




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[GM]

The book on improver would be fascinating, but I don't think the story is over.  And where the subtitle of Battle of the Bull Runts was "overcoming dwarfism", this book would have to have a subtitle like "Capitalizing Tibial Hemimelia".  We're probably 30 years away from this book.  It could cover the Rise, and Fall, and Rise and Fall, and Rise again (hopefully) of Shorthorns and how TH influenced each rise and fall - from a breed economics and marketability stand point.  I'm sure Steer Planet would have a chapter as it played an influential part in terms of community, information sharing, understanding, help, science in laymen's terms, and the immortal heatwave...and of course the protagonist of the chapter played by the "show ring" and the antagonist played by "aj"

 

[BTDT]

The book would be like cell phones, computer tablets, outdated before it got off the shelf. It could never keep up with the new discoveries.

 

[aj]

Charlie was in a pen of 5 in yards....2011 maybe. It was interesting cause Dog soldier origonally called th free withblood test. Then he sired a defective calf. Dog was a twin and I guess that somehow goofs the test up.

 

[aj]

In the Battle of bull runts book. They talked about The Wallop herd that had 46 dwarf calves at the end of 1949. The funniest part of the book was when McCANN actually went to the one rancher and plied him with very good whiskey. After they loosened the ole boy up.....he went and took down a picture.....reached in a hole in the wall and got acouple pedigree's....which got the two geneticist's back on the right track.