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<blockquote data-quote="Frankie" data-source="post: 746314" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>I thought that was what you were trying to do. No, that's not how EPDs work. Bulls are compared to other individual bulls within the breed. EPDs will never tell you what something will weigh because there's no way to put the cow's contribution to the calf into the equation. If you breed a bull with a BW EPD of 5 to a Jersey cow, would you expect the calf to weigh the same as if you bred him to a Charlaois cow? BUT if you breed a bull with a 5 lb BW EPD to those two cows, you can still EXPECT each calf to weigh 5 more pounds at birth than if you bred those same two cows to a bull with a BW EPD of 0. There's just no way to predict the actual weight of either calf. Am I making sense?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frankie, post: 746314, member: 13"] I thought that was what you were trying to do. No, that's not how EPDs work. Bulls are compared to other individual bulls within the breed. EPDs will never tell you what something will weigh because there's no way to put the cow's contribution to the calf into the equation. If you breed a bull with a BW EPD of 5 to a Jersey cow, would you expect the calf to weigh the same as if you bred him to a Charlaois cow? BUT if you breed a bull with a 5 lb BW EPD to those two cows, you can still EXPECT each calf to weigh 5 more pounds at birth than if you bred those same two cows to a bull with a BW EPD of 0. There's just no way to predict the actual weight of either calf. Am I making sense? [/QUOTE]
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