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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 713761" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>True crossbreed EPDs are something that scares an awful lot of people. Crunch all the data and the computer is likely to tell us that Caustic or someone like him has a Hereford/Charolais/Brahman 3 way cross cow in the top 1% of the industry for weaning weight EPD. What exactly does that really tell us??? Is that now a $100,000 donor cow (nobody has ever convinced me that any cow is worth that) or just a good commercial cow? A Charolais bull with a birth weight EPD in the lowest 5% of their breed has a higher birth weight EPD than 90% of the Angus breed. IF you own that trait leader Charolais, can you market his genetics with a Crossbreed EPD that is much higher than the average birth weight EPD in the crossbreed EPD system?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 713761, member: 7645"] True crossbreed EPDs are something that scares an awful lot of people. Crunch all the data and the computer is likely to tell us that Caustic or someone like him has a Hereford/Charolais/Brahman 3 way cross cow in the top 1% of the industry for weaning weight EPD. What exactly does that really tell us??? Is that now a $100,000 donor cow (nobody has ever convinced me that any cow is worth that) or just a good commercial cow? A Charolais bull with a birth weight EPD in the lowest 5% of their breed has a higher birth weight EPD than 90% of the Angus breed. IF you own that trait leader Charolais, can you market his genetics with a Crossbreed EPD that is much higher than the average birth weight EPD in the crossbreed EPD system? [/QUOTE]
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