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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 565919" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>You don't need to ever see the animal if you have seen 20++ progeny in different herds and have EPD data from 70+++ head out of 7++ herds. Progeny performance trumps individual performance. In another string, a poster was complaining because an AI sire had what he felt was a mediocre weaning weight. I looked up the sire and he had over 1000 weaning weights turned in to the association. That those 1000 calves out ratioed their contemporaries tells more about that sire's growth genetics than what he weaned back in 1999 did. Folks that don't use a bull until he has 80% EPD accuracy and they have seen adult daughters in shows, sales, and the neighbors' pastures don't really need to obsess over one photo in the Angus Journal. They are judging him by the phenotype that he stamps his progeny with NOT the phenotype he hints at by eyeballing him. Doc's point is that if you are going to use young bulls with no progeny on the ground you might want to go see the bull and ideally the bull's mom before incorporating his genetics into your herd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 565919, member: 7645"] You don't need to ever see the animal if you have seen 20++ progeny in different herds and have EPD data from 70+++ head out of 7++ herds. Progeny performance trumps individual performance. In another string, a poster was complaining because an AI sire had what he felt was a mediocre weaning weight. I looked up the sire and he had over 1000 weaning weights turned in to the association. That those 1000 calves out ratioed their contemporaries tells more about that sire's growth genetics than what he weaned back in 1999 did. Folks that don't use a bull until he has 80% EPD accuracy and they have seen adult daughters in shows, sales, and the neighbors' pastures don't really need to obsess over one photo in the Angus Journal. They are judging him by the phenotype that he stamps his progeny with NOT the phenotype he hints at by eyeballing him. Doc's point is that if you are going to use young bulls with no progeny on the ground you might want to go see the bull and ideally the bull's mom before incorporating his genetics into your herd. [/QUOTE]
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