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<blockquote data-quote="Idaman" data-source="post: 752179" data-attributes="member: 14119"><p>Continued from dwarfism.</p><p></p><p>Carl Martin had a great ranch just out of Menard, Texas. Carl took me on almost like a son for about 10 years in the late 60s and early 70s. I visited his ranch every year and he came to mine a couple of times. The first three years I spent just trying to convince him to sell me a bull. I guess he thought I was a spy from the AHA crowd who he hated. He finally let me have Prince Blanchard 170, a Mischief Return, Lamplighter. 170 was pretty femine but really bred outstanding females that we still have lots of descendents of. Later we got Blanchard Lad 211 and Blanchard Lad 212. These two were much more masculine but still are the foundation sires of our present day females.</p><p></p><p>During the earlier years of this time the dwarfism thing took an interesting turn. The AHA decided to clean up the mess by indentifying all the carriers by a pedigree check. The other alternative was a progeny test accomplished by breeding a bull to at least 15 of his own daughters and then if there were no dwarfs the bull could be called clean. Both methods were successful but the AHA never sanctioned the progeny test which left a cloud over the cattle that were cleared that way. The argument raged on over the merits of both methods for years much like the Polled Horned argument of today with just as much passion, animosity, and unrelenting. Our cattle were pedigree clean but many of our friends went the other way. I got caught some when I purchased some cows that were progeny clean but I had to put them in the commercials.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idaman, post: 752179, member: 14119"] Continued from dwarfism. Carl Martin had a great ranch just out of Menard, Texas. Carl took me on almost like a son for about 10 years in the late 60s and early 70s. I visited his ranch every year and he came to mine a couple of times. The first three years I spent just trying to convince him to sell me a bull. I guess he thought I was a spy from the AHA crowd who he hated. He finally let me have Prince Blanchard 170, a Mischief Return, Lamplighter. 170 was pretty femine but really bred outstanding females that we still have lots of descendents of. Later we got Blanchard Lad 211 and Blanchard Lad 212. These two were much more masculine but still are the foundation sires of our present day females. During the earlier years of this time the dwarfism thing took an interesting turn. The AHA decided to clean up the mess by indentifying all the carriers by a pedigree check. The other alternative was a progeny test accomplished by breeding a bull to at least 15 of his own daughters and then if there were no dwarfs the bull could be called clean. Both methods were successful but the AHA never sanctioned the progeny test which left a cloud over the cattle that were cleared that way. The argument raged on over the merits of both methods for years much like the Polled Horned argument of today with just as much passion, animosity, and unrelenting. Our cattle were pedigree clean but many of our friends went the other way. I got caught some when I purchased some cows that were progeny clean but I had to put them in the commercials. [/QUOTE]
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