Re: Wide Crosses
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- Subject: Re: Wide Crosses
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:50:30 -0700 (MST)
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 Z88KEYS@aol.com wrote:
> Dear Walter: The term wide cross is perhaps not very scientific, and changes
> with the "environment". Monty's wide crosses would have meaning only to a
> mostly TB or at least Bearded specialist. A truly wide cross would be one
> that produces a PALTEC, or a WM MOHR, - an intra-species cross.
> I have to smile when I read some dairy cattle pedigrees as being "outcross",
> for if one looks no farther than the grandparents, there is a lot of close
> breeding. Lloyd in Durham NC
>
Lloyd, I agree with your definition of 'wide cross' more than what
others have said. My crosses would fall into their definition, and I have
never considered them wide. If a cold climate rebloomer x a warm climate
rebloomer is wide, why isn't an east coast oncer x a west coast oncer
considered a wide cross??
Another suggested that crossing from line breeding to non-line
breeding is a 'wide cross.' To me, this is an outcross.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
