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<blockquote data-quote="Dana Kopp" data-source="post: 89452" data-attributes="member: 873"><p>I don't base any decisions strictly on EPDs, we have looked at birth weights, the EPDs and the bulls themselves and we know our herd, their faults and what we want in our calves. </p><p>The bull that we used on our heifers last year has a birth EPD of +1.5 (.20 acc) but his birth weight was 89 lbs and the lightest calf he threw was 85 pounds, two were 100 and the others were in the high 90s. Great calves, just bigger than I like my heifers to have. My other bull has a bw EPD of +1.1 (.20 acc) but his birth weight was 80 lbs - his calves varied from 70 to 85 lbs, very active good lookers too. Had I known the actual birth weights on the bulls when I turned them out I would have swapped them, but unfortunately I didn't know that (important) piece of info...learn from your mistakes!!</p><p>Since the sires of three of the bulls were/are popular AI sires I thought someone might have some additional insight or thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dana Kopp, post: 89452, member: 873"] I don't base any decisions strictly on EPDs, we have looked at birth weights, the EPDs and the bulls themselves and we know our herd, their faults and what we want in our calves. The bull that we used on our heifers last year has a birth EPD of +1.5 (.20 acc) but his birth weight was 89 lbs and the lightest calf he threw was 85 pounds, two were 100 and the others were in the high 90s. Great calves, just bigger than I like my heifers to have. My other bull has a bw EPD of +1.1 (.20 acc) but his birth weight was 80 lbs - his calves varied from 70 to 85 lbs, very active good lookers too. Had I known the actual birth weights on the bulls when I turned them out I would have swapped them, but unfortunately I didn't know that (important) piece of info...learn from your mistakes!! Since the sires of three of the bulls were/are popular AI sires I thought someone might have some additional insight or thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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