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<blockquote data-quote="animalsci2011" data-source="post: 1066389" data-attributes="member: 20757"><p>I think I am in the same boat as most of you. bse you are definitely right about the "calving ease" bulls will definitely outsell the moderate ones. I tend to not be as worried about it myself I like to focus more on yearly and weaning weight myself. Sure I want small calves as birth, reasonably small that is, but looking at across breed EPDs I wouldn't say many angus bulls would be called difficult calvers. Now sure I won't use a bull that is over lets say 4.0 on BW unless it was one of my older, wider hipped cows. I just see too many people writing off really good bulls just because their BW EPD is above 2.5 or something. Genetics are one thing but when a man is running commerical cows and has mostly older cows he needs to focus alot more on other things. Thats just my opinion though, people can agree or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="animalsci2011, post: 1066389, member: 20757"] I think I am in the same boat as most of you. bse you are definitely right about the "calving ease" bulls will definitely outsell the moderate ones. I tend to not be as worried about it myself I like to focus more on yearly and weaning weight myself. Sure I want small calves as birth, reasonably small that is, but looking at across breed EPDs I wouldn't say many angus bulls would be called difficult calvers. Now sure I won't use a bull that is over lets say 4.0 on BW unless it was one of my older, wider hipped cows. I just see too many people writing off really good bulls just because their BW EPD is above 2.5 or something. Genetics are one thing but when a man is running commerical cows and has mostly older cows he needs to focus alot more on other things. Thats just my opinion though, people can agree or not. [/QUOTE]
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