Which CAB spec criterion ensures dairy influences are eliminated?

Which CAB spec criterion ensures dairy influences are eliminated?

• A. Superior muscling which eliminates dairy influences
• B. Neck hump under 2 inch which eliminates Brahman influences
• C. Virtually free of capillary ruptures
• D. No dark cutters

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is using muscle development as a reliable sign of beef-type genetics. Dairy influences tend to produce cattle with less muscling and a more dairy-oriented build, so requiring superior muscling directly filters for animals that display the heavier, more muscular beef phenotype. In other words, strong muscle expression is the clearest way to ensure the animal isn’t carrying dairy-type characteristics. The other criteria look at different issues. A neck hump criterion targets Brahman influence, not dairy; a criterion about capillary ruptures relates to vascular or handling defects; and no dark cutters addresses meat color and pH issues related to stress, not dairy background.

The main idea here is using muscle development as a reliable sign of beef-type genetics. Dairy influences tend to produce cattle with less muscling and a more dairy-oriented build, so requiring superior muscling directly filters for animals that display the heavier, more muscular beef phenotype. In other words, strong muscle expression is the clearest way to ensure the animal isn’t carrying dairy-type characteristics.

The other criteria look at different issues. A neck hump criterion targets Brahman influence, not dairy; a criterion about capillary ruptures relates to vascular or handling defects; and no dark cutters addresses meat color and pH issues related to stress, not dairy background.