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41/97 is my pick. Great thread
librarian said:Cotton Angus in South Dakota uses some Manning sons and breeds back a lot to Manning.
This is a bull he bred named Bid Don of Volga 9924. Registration# 13497782
And a link to the Cotton Hyland 2013 sale catalog to study some of the interesting breeding.
http://www.hylandangus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-Cotton-Doyle-Hyland-Catalog.pdf
Some have successfully used 41/97 with this kind of Wye/Emulation cross.
There is a Manning son, Alap of Wye that is used heavily as a maternal bull.
And a picture of Atomic of Volga, another Manning son.
librarian said:These are serious questions, although they may seem simple minded.
How does rate of gain relate to rate of growth? They are the same thing. Not to be confused w/ growth curve though. Think lbs per day as the rate.
Is gain the weight put on after the animal has met it's basic growth and reproductive requirements? No, gains simply means (pounds)gained. Within this industry, the rate most commonly used is days.
Will an animal with increased rate of gain have earlier maturity? No, most often the opposite. Think later maturity ==> longer growth curve ==> more days(rate) during puberty to grow.
Is rate of gain antagonistic to marbling? Yes. Animals with the highest rate of gain are the high yielding breeds- the exotics, the continentals. Yield and marbling are antagonistic.
The highest marbling breeds are generally earlier maturing==>shorter growth curves==>less days of growth (to maturity)
And does easy to select for equate with highly heritable?