To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mules, Beefalo & persimmon
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:47:00 -0600
A 25% bison bull should have been fertile. I
suspect some other problem. How old was he and what was his scrotal
circumference at least 40 cm?
Naomi
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Beefalo & persimmon
Thank you Naomi for more beefalo details.
Interesting and educational. May have some parallels with plants, maybe even
persimmon. I'll store your information away. Had I known my bull would be
sterile I'd have saved a year of no calves. Sold him and I'll bet he made good
hamburger. Our freezer was full or we'd have eaten him ourselves.
I've been wanting a Rosseyanka male for breeding and now have one, but
if there are any similarities with your examples, it will be sterile. Not good
news. The female progeny of Rosseyanka, Nikitskaya Bordoviaya (AKA Nikita's
Gift) doesn't seem to be any more fertile that the Mother. I once again thank
you for your input.
Anymore good information out there?
Jerry
PS. Just got an e/m from Japan today but it wasn't readable, corrupted.
>From the subject line it seems they may have seedlings from NB seed I sent them
and they used embryo rescue techniques. Will follow up with them.