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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1806672" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Give it time and they probably will have EPD's for it. Now whether or not the EPD will be very credible is a whole nother subject.</p><p>I do believe the bull does contribute to that as I had a particular Charolais bull years ago that would sire seems like a percentage of calves that were big slow dead headed calves. </p><p>The flip side of that is I once had sone heifers AI bred to N BAR Prime Time, those calves were as forward and fast at an hour old as some other calves have been at a week old.</p><p>I will say though that if any calve are calved out in real cold wet conditions, it can zap the vigor right out them before they can get up and going.</p><p>We have calved quite a few during winter, and most do ok, but occasionally the conditions will be real bad like mud and cold rain or snow on top of it that just chills the calves very fast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1806672, member: 24816"] Give it time and they probably will have EPD’s for it. Now whether or not the EPD will be very credible is a whole nother subject. I do believe the bull does contribute to that as I had a particular Charolais bull years ago that would sire seems like a percentage of calves that were big slow dead headed calves. The flip side of that is I once had sone heifers AI bred to N BAR Prime Time, those calves were as forward and fast at an hour old as some other calves have been at a week old. I will say though that if any calve are calved out in real cold wet conditions, it can zap the vigor right out them before they can get up and going. We have calved quite a few during winter, and most do ok, but occasionally the conditions will be real bad like mud and cold rain or snow on top of it that just chills the calves very fast. [/QUOTE]
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