These are the things that confound me. This thread started with a photo of my all around best performing cow, 496. She is a daughter of 96, pictured here. 96 is an old cow, born in 1999, the last calf of a 17 year old cow. 96 was AI sired by Landmark Bando 912, a born in 1989. I really don't like the looks of the Bando 912 bull, or his sire Tehamo Bando 155. Tehama Bando was sired by Band 234 of Ideal 3163, a bull that I do like.
96 is a great cow and I have from her 3 daughters, and several grand daughters and great grand daughters. They are always good. 496 sire goes to Scotch Cap and all her daughters are fancier than those of 96. Most commercial Angus go somehow to some of these bulls through AI over the years.
Anyway, those Bando bulls look suspicious to me in terms of Angus character, but I have this very robust cow from their genetics. Who knows who her dam was, old #6, a commercial cow that was bought with a farm.
The confounding part is how these phenotypes sort themselves out.