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We go to the sale barn occasionally pick up some heifers and graze them spring till fall. In the fall when we sell we hold back about 25 percent to breed.
Here is my question. The Angus association revealed here while back a syndrome with dead calves or deformed calves. Was it called curly calf syndrome? I think it was linked to a couple of sires uses for several years. The registered people can stay on top of this by doing dna work checking for the problem. The commercial man has no dna records and it would take the profits from the first calf crop to see what you have.
How do you feel about using commercial calves that may be carriers? Loosing one or two calves a year to this in todays times can be rather costly.
Then there are all of the other breeds that have used Angus over the last few years to develop breeds like the murrey grays, brangus and such. Will there not be problems here also?