bull named toystory sired an estimated 500,000. http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-breeder-apart-the-bull-who-sired-500-000-offpsring-is-gone-1421196530
You'd think they'd run into inbreeding problems if you have bulls siring hundreds of thousands every few years.
they keep good tabs on breeding and cows have a long pregnancy with heifers taking around two years to reach breeding age. Keeps it from being a huge issue.
That bull had some real endurance. I couldn't do it. [video=youtube_share;bBRFYNI420M]http://youtu.be/bBRFYNI420M[/video]
Old Jock and Old Granny are in practically every Angus' pedigree, actually. Remember that breeds, like race, are a human construct. The breed was invented in the 1820's from existing hornless cattle in the area, but it is like saying the poodle is a native breed to France.
Besides the commercial breed stock was created from native wild cattle and by reports the characteristics didn't chage much. i
They're prehistoric and came from the aboriginal of the country. I don't know what you'd call them but that seems to get native and wild in my books.
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/03/14/molbev.mss092 This is one of those cases of prehistoric meddling. Taurine cattle were first domesticated from wild stock in Turkey 10,500 years ago, and spread throughout the world with isolated populations continuing to genetically diverge into distinct communities. It is like "wild horses" in the West. They are "wild" in the sense that they have gone feral, but they aren't native, or a natural occurring population. There's no such thing as an indigenous cow, just like there is no such thing as indigenous corn.
