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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1383815" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>Very good point Ken! The recip cow that carried that bull calf always has huge babies, even when we put calving ease embryos in her. However, when the ASA configures the EPD's, the recip cow is not figured into the data. So, the sire of the embryo bull, 3C Macho, has a actual CE of -1.4 and BW of 3.9 pounds, with a 96% accuracy. THAT is where his EPD's come from. Also, that was embryo number two from that mating, and the other one was also a bull, that weighed 96 pounds. </p><p>When I sell an embryo bull, I inform the buyers about the actual birthweight and the influence the recip cow has on that. It is then that I rely a little more on the EPD's of the dam and sire than the actual birthweight. The ASA keeps a nice database, and I can look up every calf a cow or bull has produced, and give them that data also for averages if they so want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1383815, member: 18809"] Very good point Ken! The recip cow that carried that bull calf always has huge babies, even when we put calving ease embryos in her. However, when the ASA configures the EPD's, the recip cow is not figured into the data. So, the sire of the embryo bull, 3C Macho, has a actual CE of -1.4 and BW of 3.9 pounds, with a 96% accuracy. THAT is where his EPD's come from. Also, that was embryo number two from that mating, and the other one was also a bull, that weighed 96 pounds. When I sell an embryo bull, I inform the buyers about the actual birthweight and the influence the recip cow has on that. It is then that I rely a little more on the EPD's of the dam and sire than the actual birthweight. The ASA keeps a nice database, and I can look up every calf a cow or bull has produced, and give them that data also for averages if they so want. [/QUOTE]
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