The Council of the Society resolved to set up the Australian Shorthorn Herd Book in September 1972. The first volume of the Herd Book was published in 1974, together with Volume 25 of the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book. The regulations pertaining to the new herd book were published at that time. They were very simple, and were heavily weighted towards giving breeders an opportunity to register inspected cattle of suitable shorthorn type. There was no provision for "breeding up" through the new herd book into the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book. There was only one way of doing that - through the appendix register in the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book.
That was the situation when I first bought Beef Shorthorn females in 1974. I began with 16 females bought at Mansfield and then added 16 females in calf to a Tippett bull bought at Bendigo. I soon added 20 heifers bought at Casterton. All this happened before I acquired my first stud female - which I see was in July 1975.
Between 1974 and 1991 I ran my stud and grade females as a single herd. They were joined to the same Beef Shorthorn bulls, and culling was done on a whole herd basis. Although I gradually built up the number of my stud females, grade females always predominated.
From the very beginning, a visitor to Morningtime would have been unable to work out which females were registered Beef Shorthorns, and which were not. But I have no doubt that the grade females embraced a wider gene pool.
The Council of the Society resolved to set up the Australian Shorthorn Herd Book in September 1972. The first volume of the Herd Book was published in 1974, together with Volume 25 of the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book. The regulations pertaining to the new herd book were published at that time. They were very simple, and were heavily weighted towards giving breeders an opportunity to register inspected cattle of suitable shorthorn type. There was no provision for "breeding up" through the new herd book into the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book. There was only one way of doing that - through the appendix register in the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book.
That was the situation when I first bought Beef Shorthorn females in 1974. I began with 16 females bought at Mansfield and then added 16 females in calf to a Tippett bull bought at Bendigo. I soon added 20 heifers bought at Casterton. All this happened before I acquired my first stud female - which I see was in July 1975.
Between 1974 and 1991 I ran my stud and grade females as a single herd. They were joined to the same Beef Shorthorn bulls, and culling was done on a whole herd basis. Although I gradually built up the number of my stud females, grade females always predominated.
From the very beginning, a visitor to Morningtime would have been unable to work out which females were registered Beef Shorthorns, and which were not. But I have no doubt that the grade females embraced a wider gene pool.
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