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Post by Carlos (frmaiz) on Jul 20, 2014 12:34:49 GMT -6
I quote from another thread. "Could you show an example of a good eye compared to a bad eye?"I ask myself the same question and post a couple of pictures which I think are good examples. Good eyes?  Bad eyes?  |
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Post by larso on Jul 20, 2014 12:54:49 GMT -6
Good examples of what I was talking about frmaiz. The bottom calf has 100% pigment but the setting is totally bad.
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Post by bltherf on Jul 20, 2014 18:23:45 GMT -6
Well done frmaiz. A very good example of good and bad eye settings. Hate those bug eyes that look like you could knock them off with a stick! Pigment don't matter a bit when they stick out from the skull like that. Also notice the hair whorl is low on both pictures, very nice.
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Post by elkwc on Jul 20, 2014 20:21:10 GMT -6
Thanks for the pics. I had never thought too much about eye set attributing to cancer eye.
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Post by hoekland on Jul 23, 2014 12:52:23 GMT -6
You've got it spot on
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Post by Carlos (frmaiz) on Jul 23, 2014 15:22:07 GMT -6
I don't have an idea on how is the inheritance of eye set, although I expect it to be a quantitative trait that is determined by a great number of genes each with a small effect. The X369 bull will have about 80 calves born in September and I will check them against the cows.
By the way, the bull with protruding eyes is a son of WLB Global that is in a AI Stud. I have seen a picture of his mother but couldn't appreciate her eye set.
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Post by herefordguy on Jul 23, 2014 16:34:12 GMT -6
Well done frmaiz. A very good example of good and bad eye settings. Hate those bug eyes that look like you could knock them off with a stick! Pigment don't matter a bit when they stick out from the skull like that. Also notice the hair whorl is low on both pictures, very nice. I heard elsewhere that a high whorl meant a docile temperament. Why do you like the low whorl? |
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Post by picketwire on Jul 24, 2014 12:37:54 GMT -6
Well done frmaiz. A very good example of good and bad eye settings. Hate those bug eyes that look like you could knock them off with a stick! Pigment don't matter a bit when they stick out from the skull like that. Also notice the hair whorl is low on both pictures, very nice. I heard elsewhere that a high whorl meant a docile temperament. Why do you like the low whorl? High whorl tends to be be flighty and panicky while low associates with more docility. Good examples pictured of good vs. bad eye set. |
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Post by herefordguy on Jul 25, 2014 10:34:37 GMT -6
Ah yes, I had it backwards in my mind. Someone posted a picture of a high-whorl, docile steer on Twitter, and it reversed the trend in my mind. Got it straight now.  |
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Post by bookcliff on Jul 28, 2014 20:28:09 GMT -6
I heard elsewhere that a high whorl meant a docile temperament. Why do you like the low whorl? Good examples pictured of good vs. bad eye set. gotta love Bonsma |
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Post by Trailmaster on Jul 31, 2014 22:29:57 GMT -6
By the way, the bull with protruding eyes is a son of WLB Global that is in a AI Stud. I have seen a picture of his mother but couldn't appreciate her eye set. That's strange. The picture of Global I've seen he looks to have real good eye set. Guess this bull could have got it from his dam. Or maybe Global doesn't pass it on. I have to say I've been rather disappointed with what I've seen out of Global. |
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Post by hoekland on Jul 31, 2014 23:46:57 GMT -6
I haven't seen anything out of Global locally that I liked. Terrible haircoats, very light bone.
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Post by Carlos (frmaiz) on Aug 1, 2014 9:32:46 GMT -6
By the way, the bull with protruding eyes is a son of WLB Global that is in a AI Stud. I have seen a picture of his mother but couldn't appreciate her eye set. That's strange. The picture of Global I've seen he looks to have real good eye set. Guess this bull could have got it from his dam. Or maybe Global doesn't pass it on. I have to say I've been rather disappointed with what I've seen out of Global. I just bought a set of 20 registered heifers, among them two Global daughters. Just a tax opportunity. One of them looks to me as an off-type and I wonder if it has Simmenthal in the background. I have a picture of their eyes; I think that in the case of Global progeny, bad eye sets come from the cow, since little attention is given here to this characteristic. 
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Post by hoekland on Aug 1, 2014 10:09:28 GMT -6
The bottom one without the pigment actually has the better eyes, by a long shot
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