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<blockquote data-quote="simme" data-source="post: 1740230" data-attributes="member: 40418"><p>A BW EPD cannot be converted to actual pounds of birth weight. Actual BW is dependent on many things other than genetics/EPD's - mainly environment including dam's nutrition. </p><p></p><p>But the average Angus BW EPD is +1.2 pounds from the AAA site (half the bulls below and half the bulls above). So the 2.7 indicates that calves from this bull will (on average) be 1.5 pounds heavier bw than the average angus bull due to the genetic contribution of the bull. A bull with a 2.7 BW EPD is at the 80 percentile level - 80% of the angus bulls will sire lower bw and 20% will sire heavier bw. So, the bull is in the bottom 20% of the breed for birth weight epd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simme, post: 1740230, member: 40418"] A BW EPD cannot be converted to actual pounds of birth weight. Actual BW is dependent on many things other than genetics/EPD's - mainly environment including dam's nutrition. But the average Angus BW EPD is +1.2 pounds from the AAA site (half the bulls below and half the bulls above). So the 2.7 indicates that calves from this bull will (on average) be 1.5 pounds heavier bw than the average angus bull due to the genetic contribution of the bull. A bull with a 2.7 BW EPD is at the 80 percentile level - 80% of the angus bulls will sire lower bw and 20% will sire heavier bw. So, the bull is in the bottom 20% of the breed for birth weight epd. [/QUOTE]
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