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From Newsletter 137 - May 2025
“Too Much Fun” is a 1996 song by Daryle Singletary. If you listen to classic country radio stations, it doesn’t take long for that song to appear in the rotation. The song begins with a police officer telling the artist he was pulled over for having “too much fun” because he had “fourteen people in the back of this truck.” Mr. Singletary proceeds to tell us in the chorus that there is no such thing as having too much fun. It would be like having “too much money” or a “girl too pretty with too much class.” He also tells the listener that you can’t be too lucky or have a car that’s too fast. While the song is a humorous tune about relatively innocent adoles-
cent trouble-making, he brings up the point that too much of a good thing isn’t really that big of a prob- lem. If Mr. Singletary were a cattleman, he might apply his 1996 hit to a few traits. While single trait selec- tion of any trait does come at a significant cost, physiologically, I would be hard pressed to find an argument that increased marbling, foot structure, udder structure, hair shedding, and fertility come to a detriment to other traits. Yes, intensive selection for increased marbling has often come at the sacrifice of fertility and structure because it has been single-trait se- lected. While genetic trends exist within a population, nothing physi- ologically suggests marbling is an- tagonistic to other traits. Similar- ly, a cow having better feet and a better udder doesn’t hurt her any- where else. In fact, there is no such thing as too much of any of these traits I listed above, whereas some- thing like growth is antagonistic to mature size and birthweight. Dar- yle might hum a tune that a cow
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