MKeeney
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 |  Subject: Breeding Fire and Ice  Sun May 06, 2012 9:09 pm | |
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LCP
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| | Subject: Re: Breeding Fire and Ice Sun May 06, 2012 11:08 pm | |
| What about the colored-bar diagram (http://www.accelgen.com/Genomics.aspx) that LL brought up before in the Reflections thread? How does that play into this? Seems to me that the AJ article assumed an equal influence from both parents. Do you think the bulls they used were so outcrossed that it didn't matter? It would have been a more convincing article if they tested the fire and ice mating vs a more inbred mating. - Quote :
- Unfortunately basic genetics is
one area where initial intuition
or common sense can lead you
in the wrong direction. Only when EPD breeding is confused with "basic genetics", perhaps? I found Diagram 3 particularly enlightening.  | |
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MKeeney
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| | Subject: Re: Breeding Fire and Ice Mon May 07, 2012 7:36 am | |
| I think the article is actually a back-handed, unintended endorsement of inbreeding as the only means to reduce variation...one of the myth/fallacy promotions I abhor is the "5 generations" of proven bulls behind our bulls...if the current generation is truly proven, who gives a flip about the prior generations? oh, yes, marketing bs`ers...  | |
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Kent Powell
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| | Subject: Re: Breeding Fire and Ice Mon May 07, 2012 8:33 am | |
| Proven for what? Plenty of extremely sorry inconsistent sires have 5,000 + calves and high accuracy numbers. | |
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MKeeney
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| | Subject: Re: Breeding Fire and Ice Tue May 08, 2012 8:24 am | |
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