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Post by Carlos (frmaiz) on Oct 11, 2020 18:50:53 GMT -6
I remember reading in the Fortune magazine around the early or mid 60’s, an article about the seed company starting a Hereford breeding program. And if memory doesn’t fail me, their main criteria for selection was high birthweights, and there was even a picture of somebody weighing a Hereford calf.
In retrospective, a train wreck.
Does somebody knows more about their experience and the pedigrees involved?
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Post by whiteface on Oct 13, 2020 14:42:17 GMT -6
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Post by Carlos (frmaiz) on Oct 13, 2020 18:22:48 GMT -6
Thank you! Didn’t remember about the composite. Wonder if the RX3 is still around. |
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Post by fpherf on Oct 13, 2020 19:00:21 GMT -6
Were still some RX3s around in the mid 1980's. . . They were called Perfection progeny.
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Post by Carlos (frmaiz) on Oct 13, 2020 19:41:33 GMT -6
Were still some RX3s around in the mid 1980's. . . They were called Perfection progeny. Do I understand that the dam of of KLC RB3 was an RX3 cow? |
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Post by fpherf on Oct 13, 2020 20:37:05 GMT -6
Well, I really don't know, but according to the story you link above: "Researchers developed RX3s by breeding Red and White Holsteins to Herefords for the first cross and then crossbreeding those half-bloods to Red Angus." I can just picture a resulting goofball calf that looks like KLC RB3 Perfection.
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Post by Carlos (frmaiz) on Oct 14, 2020 12:05:21 GMT -6
Well, I really don't know, but according to the story you link above: "Researchers developed RX3s by breeding Red and White Holsteins to Herefords for the first cross and then crossbreeding those half-bloods to Red Angus." I can just picture a resulting goofball calf that looks like KLC RB3 Perfection. It makes sense. |
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Post by hickorycreek on Oct 14, 2020 21:48:59 GMT -6
Was Pioneer Hybrid Seed the parent company of Pioneer Beef Cattle (Polled Hereford ,Red Angus & Black Angus) prefix was PBC ?
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Post by mrvictordomino on Nov 1, 2020 20:47:03 GMT -6
Was Pioneer Hybrid Seed the parent company of Pioneer Beef Cattle (Polled Hereford ,Red Angus & Black Angus) prefix was PBC ? Yes that was the prefix they used. In the seventies they purchased an AI interest in RWJ Victor J3 859 a top performance bull at that time. PBC prefix was used on their Red Angus as well. Choctaw Chief was the primary Red Angus sire that was used in the line breeding program. |
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