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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 656915" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>I always check back at least 3 generations. We've been bit twice. One on a heifer we bought thatwas bred to a bull with low accuracys that was in the upper 10% of the breed for CE and lower 20% for BW. We pulled a 110 pound calf from the heifer. Now that the bull is in the higher accuracy range his BW is in the upper 20% and his CE is in the lower 5%.</p><p>The other was a bull from a long line of good performing cattle. His milk EPD was just above average for the breed, now it's less then half of the breed average.</p><p>Sometimes those genes just don;t line up very well and sometimes they seem to line up all wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 656915, member: 34"] I always check back at least 3 generations. We've been bit twice. One on a heifer we bought thatwas bred to a bull with low accuracys that was in the upper 10% of the breed for CE and lower 20% for BW. We pulled a 110 pound calf from the heifer. Now that the bull is in the higher accuracy range his BW is in the upper 20% and his CE is in the lower 5%. The other was a bull from a long line of good performing cattle. His milk EPD was just above average for the breed, now it's less then half of the breed average. Sometimes those genes just don;t line up very well and sometimes they seem to line up all wrong. [/QUOTE]
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