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<blockquote data-quote="MO_cows" data-source="post: 921452" data-attributes="member: 9169"><p></p><p></p><p>That is it right there. This skew in the numbers when the breeders cherry pick who they will spend the money to register - only the top animals - and the middle end and the low end goes totally unrecorded, well that isn't doing their breed's database any favors. If you don't have a complete contemporary group to evaluate, you don't have the best data. The breeds that stuck their neck out and did Whole Herd, Complete Herd, Total Herd fee structures where you pay a fee for every registered cow and are expected to report every calf have brought those breeds light years ahead on their data collection and the strength of their EPD. Even though about every breed has a "compute" or "record" option, most breeders just won't spend that extra money and do the extra work to report their whole calf crop. The "whole herd" concept was recommended in the 1990's by BIF but not every breed association had the guts to adopt it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MO_cows, post: 921452, member: 9169"] [b][/b] That is it right there. This skew in the numbers when the breeders cherry pick who they will spend the money to register - only the top animals - and the middle end and the low end goes totally unrecorded, well that isn't doing their breed's database any favors. If you don't have a complete contemporary group to evaluate, you don't have the best data. The breeds that stuck their neck out and did Whole Herd, Complete Herd, Total Herd fee structures where you pay a fee for every registered cow and are expected to report every calf have brought those breeds light years ahead on their data collection and the strength of their EPD. Even though about every breed has a "compute" or "record" option, most breeders just won't spend that extra money and do the extra work to report their whole calf crop. The "whole herd" concept was recommended in the 1990's by BIF but not every breed association had the guts to adopt it. [/QUOTE]
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