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To me - the litmus test - Why do folks go back and use older bulls that they have used before? What do they say? Do they say, "Well his...

I did NOT say I didn't use EPDs... It's not like I go out into a bull selection only using my eye. But I do use my eye first... and weed...

It depends on the skill of the breeder. If you use old AI bulls, you cannot rely on the EPDs. The breed disses the old animals and gives...

Travlr, you are making the assumption that what you are looking for and what you were taught in college is the correct way and most...

All the "differences" are what make EPDs difficult to use and they make them look arbitrary and unreliable.

I see the weaning and yearling weights are in the 30-35% respectively and the ADG is 50%. It looks like those percentages should be...

I know how percentiles work. My question is, what do animals in 50th percentile weigh? Actual hard number. What do calves weigh at birth...

EPD's before genomics: CE...

Keep in mind I’m old school goes back to me trying to select AI sires by taking cows EPD’s and Bull’s EPD and dividing by 2 to establish...

I would agree with that. I was disappointed when AAA went with dna test to be included in foot epds as I didn’t think they had the data...

It would be interesting to compare results after decades of using differing strategies...

One of the most useful classes I took in my college years,/Animal Science/Beef production education was a conformation class. With no...

As a commercial breeder we have learned the hard way to not put any merit in an low accuracy EPD. I start looking if they are 60% or...

I have a good friend runs several hundred purebred cows, collects all the data, has a grow safe on his place. He told me that over the...

EPD’s should just be a part of selection. In my opinion their importance is way over inflated. EPD’s are to be used as a comparison...