Post by jamshundred on Oct 30, 2015 21:16:03 GMT
Kirk quote
You have never owned or bred a foundation bloodline Dexter or a dwarf Dexter. You are spewing rhetoric. That you have friendly animals isn't a surprise. All animals have potential to be pets.
It is interesting to me that you tend to breed other rare breeds, ( I assume and hope with a preservation intent), yet you are party to, and in many instances an advocate of, the eradication of the most unique and special bloodlines one could find across the spectrum of cattle. And it won't last Kirk. Polled cattle in black look like calves of other breeds, in red, so similar to red-polled cattle it does give one pause as to origin. You have helped turn a unique and specially conformed breed into common place faux imposters. If it was just you and your kind that was going to tank. . there wouldn't be a tear to fall. . . .. but you are wiping out unique with commonplace.
Judy
We started with nearly all horned dexters on our farm (polled females weren't yet very available, but polled bulls were available). We were able to compare horned mothers (with no polled cattle in their background), to polled daughters. The polled gene only does ONE thing.... it switches off horn growth and that's it, just like the genetics experts tell us. There is no linkage to other traits. Polled is independent of other traits.
You have never owned or bred a foundation bloodline Dexter or a dwarf Dexter. You are spewing rhetoric. That you have friendly animals isn't a surprise. All animals have potential to be pets.
It is interesting to me that you tend to breed other rare breeds, ( I assume and hope with a preservation intent), yet you are party to, and in many instances an advocate of, the eradication of the most unique and special bloodlines one could find across the spectrum of cattle. And it won't last Kirk. Polled cattle in black look like calves of other breeds, in red, so similar to red-polled cattle it does give one pause as to origin. You have helped turn a unique and specially conformed breed into common place faux imposters. If it was just you and your kind that was going to tank. . there wouldn't be a tear to fall. . . .. but you are wiping out unique with commonplace.
Judy
