Grassfarmer
Posts : 660
Join date : 2010-09-27
Location : Belmont, Manitoba, Canada
 |  Subject: Selection to the extreme?  Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:10 am | |
| | |
|
MKeeney
Admin
Posts : 3797
Join date : 2010-09-21
| | Subject: Re: Selection to the extreme? Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:36 am | |
| | |
|
PatB
Posts : 334
Join date : 2010-09-25
Age : 60
Location : Turner, Maine
| | Subject: Re: Selection to the extreme? Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:25 am | |
| That explains why horse meat is so popular in Europe. Is this one of the judging contest where it is all about the name and money? | |
|
Grassfarmer
Posts : 660
Join date : 2010-09-27
Location : Belmont, Manitoba, Canada
| | Subject: Re: Selection to the extreme? Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:20 am | |
| - MKeeney wrote:
- Grassfarmer wrote:
- A purebred Charolais heifer won the prestigous fatstock competition that is "Smithfield" last week. I wonder what kind of calves she would have and how she would rear them?
http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/scots-triumph-at-smithfield-1.1138828 good lord..is that the beef brits like to eat? It's what the majority of EU supermarket beef is - very lean, no marbling, high % muscle cuts. - patb wrote:
- That explains why horse meat is so popular in Europe. Is this one of the judging contest where it is all about the name and money?
Horse meat isn't that popular in Europe, only in Belgium and Luxemberg to an extent. It's not a name and money event - Allanfauld is a top commercial calf producer, supplying what the market demands and has ventured into the purebred side in recent decades to breed their own parent lines. | |
|
Tom D
Admin
Posts : 443
Join date : 2010-09-25
Age : 45
Location : Michigan
| | Subject: Re: Selection to the extreme? Sun Dec 11, 2011 11:59 am | |
| To the extreme, I rock a mike like a vandal. Light up the stage and wax a chump like a candle.
VI | |
|
Grassfarmer
Posts : 660
Join date : 2010-09-27
Location : Belmont, Manitoba, Canada
| | Subject: Re: Selection to the extreme? Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:04 pm | |
| What happens when you try to make terminal perform as maternal.  This was a prime stock show winner as a heifer and retained for a cow. She sold for @$7000 as a heifer with calf at foot. So has this bull a high or low tail head? and whatever happened to the old standard of "the back being as level as a billiard table"? 
Last edited by Grassfarmer on Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:15 pm; edited 1 time in total | |
|
Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: Selection to the extreme? Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:05 pm | |
| Looks a lot like the modern breeding hogs. |
|
Sponsored content
| | Subject: Re: Selection to the extreme? | |
| |
|
