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1680 Cattle

mrj

Well-known member
For those confused by a post on another thread with comment about "1680 cattle" who thought anyone with that many cattle should be able to make a living.

If you are not involved in raising cattle, or not knowledgeble about the industry, or have not been reading or hearing much 'cattle news' lately, you may not know about 'curly calf syndrome'. And I don't know much more about it than the name and that it is a serious problem for some Angus cattle breeders.

It is discussed in some detail on another forum on this site.

"1680" is an identifying number of a bull and or others of the same blood lines, suspected (or proven, not certain which) to carry genetics that causes deformed or defective cattle, making cattle that are descendants of 'ol # 1680 just about without any value other than possibly that of slaughter instead of being sold as breeding stock or semen, etc.

Sort of like buying a house, then having something beyond your control to cause it to lose a very large percentage of its value, leaving you to pay the debt for your investment at original value, yet being able to sell it only at the current stated much lower value.

Owning the devalued house would be better deal than owning the devalued cattle because you could at least live in it! And it might even increase in value over a few years.

The cattle will have to be sold very soon, as they will drop in value each week they are not sold, and there is no chance they will increase in value, if I understand the curly calf syndrome problem accurately.

mrj
 
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Anonymous

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Until the test is developed to test which of Precision 1680's progeny are carriers and which not- the value for some sires/dams has definitely dropped...Going to make some multi thousand dollar bulls/cows worth nothing for awhile... But this isn't the end of the world- as it takes having a 1680 carrier progeny in both parents pedigree to get a defective calf...

And there is still a lot of angus cattle out their with NO precision bloodlines (mine included) - and folks- especially those with 1680 already in the bloodlines- will just have to use some of those other numerous, numerous bloodlines that are not related back in any way...

Raising both registered horses and registered cows- I have come to realize there is one benefit with the cows...You can always eat your mistakes.... :wink:
 
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