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<blockquote data-quote="Josher" data-source="post: 1847841" data-attributes="member: 37963"><p>I'm like you I feel my brain hurting after looking through all the bulls, and numbers.</p><p> </p><p>I start with phenotype , feet, structure. Then what am I going to use him on? cows, heifers, for making replacements, making feeder cattle. Then I do quick scan of CE ( my opinion but this whole calving ease went way overboard and %80 of the bulls I can use for AI are bred to be heifer bulls.) which I stay away from the calving ease extremes. Growth Epds are next. Then look at MW, MH. Foot Scores. Milk. If they pass all these ideals then I look deeper into the pedigree. Do I want replacements just like the dam. Does the sire have the same good phenotype. At this point I might circle back and look at the epds closer and pick it apart more. Sadly there is no perfect bull I've come to find. He's always got a weakness somewhere. But if his strengths are what you are looking for then that's the bull.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josher, post: 1847841, member: 37963"] I’m like you I feel my brain hurting after looking through all the bulls, and numbers. I start with phenotype , feet, structure. Then what am I going to use him on? cows, heifers, for making replacements, making feeder cattle. Then I do quick scan of CE ( my opinion but this whole calving ease went way overboard and %80 of the bulls I can use for AI are bred to be heifer bulls.) which I stay away from the calving ease extremes. Growth Epds are next. Then look at MW, MH. Foot Scores. Milk. If they pass all these ideals then I look deeper into the pedigree. Do I want replacements just like the dam. Does the sire have the same good phenotype. At this point I might circle back and look at the epds closer and pick it apart more. Sadly there is no perfect bull I’ve come to find. He’s always got a weakness somewhere. But if his strengths are what you are looking for then that’s the bull. [/QUOTE]
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