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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 6957410" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>back to xbreds then ? Until one could unite bull breeders, and dairy farmers, into a single aim, xbred or mongrel bred dairy will continue, a problem with all 'not pure bred' cattle, is some offspring are throwbacks, looking 'odd' and not particularly well proportioned, and will never make a good animal, most of these don't make market now. if they do, they make b-all. I have no doubt, at all, that the breeders will solve the conundrum, and cows will become more standardised, for each system. I will go 1 step further, and say, it will be the holstien breeders that will win the race, and I hate holstiens, for our grazing system, but, if you look how quickly they have already moved, like feet, fertility, longevity, mastitis's, TB resistance etc, simply because they have an enormous gene base to select from. But, at present, the British friesian is popular, that breed, has been diluted with some/lot of hol blood, they have had to, for the breed to survive, no criticism at all, but now, busily finding fr type bulls, from a small gene pool, that answers that demand. But, the proper old fashioned fr has gone, correctly so, they were some miserable old bitches, and the speed farmers converted to hol, in a degree, proves that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 6957410, member: 86168"] back to xbreds then ? Until one could unite bull breeders, and dairy farmers, into a single aim, xbred or mongrel bred dairy will continue, a problem with all 'not pure bred' cattle, is some offspring are throwbacks, looking 'odd' and not particularly well proportioned, and will never make a good animal, most of these don't make market now. if they do, they make b-all. I have no doubt, at all, that the breeders will solve the conundrum, and cows will become more standardised, for each system. I will go 1 step further, and say, it will be the holstien breeders that will win the race, and I hate holstiens, for our grazing system, but, if you look how quickly they have already moved, like feet, fertility, longevity, mastitis's, TB resistance etc, simply because they have an enormous gene base to select from. But, at present, the British friesian is popular, that breed, has been diluted with some/lot of hol blood, they have had to, for the breed to survive, no criticism at all, but now, busily finding fr type bulls, from a small gene pool, that answers that demand. But, the proper old fashioned fr has gone, correctly so, they were some miserable old bitches, and the speed farmers converted to hol, in a degree, proves that. [/QUOTE]
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