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<blockquote data-quote="MO_cows" data-source="post: 705689" data-attributes="member: 9169"><p>Lots of good advice in these replies even if they are a bit scattered out. Like has been said, your cows are half the equation. And it's not so much about how many pounds the calf weighs, it's the degree of difficulty birthing and the stress on the cow and calf. If they are born easy, the cow bounces right back and the calf takes off and grows, no matter what the birth weight. </p><p></p><p>Once saw a presentation from Dr. Rick Bourden with CSU. In fielding questions about calving ease, he indicated that the calving ease EPD was of greater importance than the BW EPD. There are more factors taken into consideration to produce the calving ease EPD. But like has been said, if there is no accuracy behind the EPD, it's just an educated guess based on a small sampling of data.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MO_cows, post: 705689, member: 9169"] Lots of good advice in these replies even if they are a bit scattered out. Like has been said, your cows are half the equation. And it's not so much about how many pounds the calf weighs, it's the degree of difficulty birthing and the stress on the cow and calf. If they are born easy, the cow bounces right back and the calf takes off and grows, no matter what the birth weight. Once saw a presentation from Dr. Rick Bourden with CSU. In fielding questions about calving ease, he indicated that the calving ease EPD was of greater importance than the BW EPD. There are more factors taken into consideration to produce the calving ease EPD. But like has been said, if there is no accuracy behind the EPD, it's just an educated guess based on a small sampling of data. [/QUOTE]
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