EPD's

[Anonymous]

What do they mean? Is there something printed I can get to keep w/ me. I have 6 Herefords, 1 Black Angus bull, and 3 black baldies. We love to mess w/ them. I give them all there shots and feed them very well and just want to know more. any help would be greatly appriciated. God bless you all. roy

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[Anonymous]

All of the breed associations web sites have full information on what their particular EPDs mean and the breed averages, also have the high and lows and normally what differnce the various accuracy ranges are. <A HREF="http://www.angus.org/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.angus.org/</A> <A HREF="http://www.hereford.org/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.hereford.org/</A>

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> What do they mean? Is there
> something printed I can get to
> keep w/ me. I have 6 Herefords, 1
> Black Angus bull, and 3 black
> baldies. We love to mess w/ them.
> I give them all there shots and
> feed them very well and just want
> to know more. any help would be
> greatly appriciated. God bless you
> all. roy

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a link to an Angus publication called "Bull Buying Strategies..." It has an explanation of Angus EPDs. I think you can print it out. EPDs can't be compared across breed. For example, a Charolais bull with a 0 birthweight EPD is the equivalent of an Angus BW EPD of 5. But EPDs are figured pretty much the same within each breed. Good luck.... <A HREF="http://www.angus.org/pubs/bullbuy.htm" TARGET="_blank">http://www.angus.org/pubs/bullbuy.htm</A>

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