yuppiecowboy
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My neighbor hobby farmer just had a TH calf. I blame myself, as i let him use my tested TH PHA dirty Xray Vision son before I took the bull to the salebarn.I swear I thought his cows were nondescript black hided angus derivitive crap.I specifically told him not to keep calves out of him for breeding stock and I thought I was doing him a favor. Turns out his 5 cows are shithorn based with Improver backgrounds. Yeppers. He got a calf with a belly hernia, and twisted back legs.
Sad part is he stayed up all night trying to keep him alive.
More sad (and disgusting) is the vet said it was just a fluke and not to worry about it. What the shit? In my non cow profession I have to keep up with continuing education as to what direction the wind is blowing. How could a bovine veterinarian NOT know there is"something rotten in denmark" with this stuff? I called the vet today to talk about TH, PHA, CCS and whatever is next and I got a DUHHHH.
This is my fault but it goes to show the genetic issue has seeped into the commercial and hobby man that does not have the opportunity to be educated as we do that frequent these boards (this board).
We owe it to ourselves to test anything we sell as breeding stock, or even if we have a cool Heatseeker or Stinger that might get into the neighbors, and be our own police because the actual keepers of our nations cowherd wont.
THose of us that are cyber connected know whats going on, but there are alot of cow folk that have no idea what the story is. Luckily, TH and PHA are mostly confined to us hobby freak dealers, but the angus CCS is going to have issues. How many commercial guys that have no idea have Precision 1680 blood?
Sad part is he stayed up all night trying to keep him alive.
More sad (and disgusting) is the vet said it was just a fluke and not to worry about it. What the shit? In my non cow profession I have to keep up with continuing education as to what direction the wind is blowing. How could a bovine veterinarian NOT know there is"something rotten in denmark" with this stuff? I called the vet today to talk about TH, PHA, CCS and whatever is next and I got a DUHHHH.
This is my fault but it goes to show the genetic issue has seeped into the commercial and hobby man that does not have the opportunity to be educated as we do that frequent these boards (this board).
We owe it to ourselves to test anything we sell as breeding stock, or even if we have a cool Heatseeker or Stinger that might get into the neighbors, and be our own police because the actual keepers of our nations cowherd wont.
THose of us that are cyber connected know whats going on, but there are alot of cow folk that have no idea what the story is. Luckily, TH and PHA are mostly confined to us hobby freak dealers, but the angus CCS is going to have issues. How many commercial guys that have no idea have Precision 1680 blood?