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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1139147" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>If my cattle were angus, all my replacement heifers in the last 5 years would be +26. I find it's more learned than anything else... My old cow Rosie was from a Saler, and we had LOTS of flighty cattle from him, Her mother was a very docile cow and she took after that, as have all her daughters. Her last one in fact LOVES people.. any person is a friend to her. A neighbor stopped on the road the other day and we talked, Kama came up to me, inspected the vehicle, then wanted to put her head in the drivers window to say hi. I found if you have a generally calm herd, it doesn't matter what the bull's docility EPD's are, and probably even more so if you AI your cows... I like the idea of a docility EPD, but I think an ACCURATE one will never happen!</p><p></p><p>Our Limo bull has Docility EPD's, and I read up on it on the Limo website.. it's rated 1 to 4 when they're put in a headgate at a year old.. 1 they fight like bastards in it, 2 they fight and settle down, 3 they fidget, and 4 they just stand there. I guess you have to have some way to guage it, but that method certainly isn't going to tell you how a cow that has just calved will behave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1139147, member: 9096"] If my cattle were angus, all my replacement heifers in the last 5 years would be +26. I find it's more learned than anything else... My old cow Rosie was from a Saler, and we had LOTS of flighty cattle from him, Her mother was a very docile cow and she took after that, as have all her daughters. Her last one in fact LOVES people.. any person is a friend to her. A neighbor stopped on the road the other day and we talked, Kama came up to me, inspected the vehicle, then wanted to put her head in the drivers window to say hi. I found if you have a generally calm herd, it doesn't matter what the bull's docility EPD's are, and probably even more so if you AI your cows... I like the idea of a docility EPD, but I think an ACCURATE one will never happen! Our Limo bull has Docility EPD's, and I read up on it on the Limo website.. it's rated 1 to 4 when they're put in a headgate at a year old.. 1 they fight like bastards in it, 2 they fight and settle down, 3 they fidget, and 4 they just stand there. I guess you have to have some way to guage it, but that method certainly isn't going to tell you how a cow that has just calved will behave. [/QUOTE]
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