I recently watched an informative video on bulls and epds. They mentioned that the most desirable bull is an all purpose bull. I get what that means with respect to heifer breeding with good growth but what is an all purpose bull really? He didn't expand much on epds or phenotype.
All purpose Bull.
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Son of Butch
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How about a well balanced bull that's above breed average on nearly all traits?
Hoover Elation at Select Sires is average or above for 20 of 25 traits and I would consider him to be all purpose
because he is well proven and won't hurt you in either maternal or carcass traits (and that's a rare occurrence)
https://selectsiresbeef.com/index.php/b ... ge?bid=344
ced 15 top 3%
bw -1.5 10% .80 accuracy
ww top 40%
yw 20%
radg 25%
dmi 40%
sc 25%
doc 3%
hp 1%
cem 3%
milk 23 (55%)
mh 50%
$EN -5.83 (60%)
cw 45%
marb 35%
re 40%
$W 35%
$F 10%
$G 45%
$QG 30%
$B 125 top 35%
Hoover Elation at Select Sires is average or above for 20 of 25 traits and I would consider him to be all purpose
because he is well proven and won't hurt you in either maternal or carcass traits (and that's a rare occurrence)
https://selectsiresbeef.com/index.php/b ... ge?bid=344
ced 15 top 3%
bw -1.5 10% .80 accuracy
ww top 40%
yw 20%
radg 25%
dmi 40%
sc 25%
doc 3%
hp 1%
cem 3%
milk 23 (55%)
mh 50%
$EN -5.83 (60%)
cw 45%
marb 35%
re 40%
$W 35%
$F 10%
$G 45%
$QG 30%
$B 125 top 35%
Son of Butch
Well-known member
yes... top 1% hp are just too fertile and top 3% docility are just too gentle... after all what is life without struggledun":1uls757k said:
Son of Butch
Well-known member
Dog gentle cattle are unbalanced?
Perhaps .... making sweeping ALL inclusive statements is not balanced.
Perhaps .... making sweeping ALL inclusive statements is not balanced.
Chi-man
Active member
I think Dun gave great advice! His herd backs up the advice he gave. ;-)
Nesikep
Well-known member
I think the point is to not neglect and go backward in a bunch of traits to make advances in another trait... Going for phenomenal growth numbers at the cost of calving ease would be one example... better to go more moderate on the growth and at least hold your position on the calving ease and other traits.
