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bulls and inbreedin

cowhunter

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What I'm tryin to do is breed a animal that stays sound, runs strate, has good horn length at 300 to 350 and stays healthy with feed that will hold them back from gainin a lot of weight. I won't have a cow or bull with bad feet. But if u inbred, could this come up? Can u safely breed a bull to his granddaughters? Or should stop with only his daughters? I've got two reg longhorned cows bred to my cracker bull. I'm hopein for bull calfs to keep for sires later on to get horn quicker. They'd be 1/2 brother to the heifers I'd won't to breed to. Would this be alright? I've never beleaved in inbreedin cattle. In my comercal herd, we change bulls every other year.
 

DejaVu

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Straight running cattle depend on how they are "broken in" initially and somewhat on how they are roped later on. Line breeding will "set" trails both good and/or bad.
 

cowhunter

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Here, u never see and ropein cattle with any ear. Meanin bramaha influence because the tend to not run strate. Its said that coreintas run better than most but I've had no complants out of the crackers. With dogs. I breed with blood percentages like they use to think was the rule. I still use it because it still fairly acurate. Say a dog carrys 75 percent of a old dog that was real good called scardy cat. Thet dog has a good chance of bein a good dog but also a biger chance of carryin scardycats faults. Like only haven a few pups or gettin sick more than other dogs. I'm just tryin to breed ropein cattle that are not hard to sell and u get repeat business and if in/line breedin might cause any problems. I won't go that way.
 

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