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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 703707" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Good points made about the cow side of the equation. </p><p></p><p>High CED and low BW epds - if the accuracies are high - are a good predictor; low-accuracy epds may be something of a crapshoot. </p><p>But you also need to look at the CEM or MCE(maternal calving ease) epd of the cow's sire. If she's sired by a bull with a CEM/MCE epd below breed average, chances are that she'll be less likely to be able to deliver as large a calf, as a first-calf heifer, than would the daughter of a bull with a high positive CEM/CME epd.</p><p></p><p>I've passed on some bulls that had many of the traits I felt were desirable because they had negative maternal calving ease epds - I'm still in the mode of trying to breed better females; if I were gonna market ALL my calves as terminal crosses, then maternal calving ease wouldn't be a concern.</p><p></p><p>Then, there's always the possibility that the pedigree on the paper isn't actually what's behind the bull, and the projected EPDs aren't accurate - whether the breeder realizes it or not. Honest mistakes do happen, as does outright chicanery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 703707, member: 12607"] Good points made about the cow side of the equation. High CED and low BW epds - if the accuracies are high - are a good predictor; low-accuracy epds may be something of a crapshoot. But you also need to look at the CEM or MCE(maternal calving ease) epd of the cow's sire. If she's sired by a bull with a CEM/MCE epd below breed average, chances are that she'll be less likely to be able to deliver as large a calf, as a first-calf heifer, than would the daughter of a bull with a high positive CEM/CME epd. I've passed on some bulls that had many of the traits I felt were desirable because they had negative maternal calving ease epds - I'm still in the mode of trying to breed better females; if I were gonna market ALL my calves as terminal crosses, then maternal calving ease wouldn't be a concern. Then, there's always the possibility that the pedigree on the paper isn't actually what's behind the bull, and the projected EPDs aren't accurate - whether the breeder realizes it or not. Honest mistakes do happen, as does outright chicanery. [/QUOTE]
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