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<blockquote data-quote="Badlands" data-source="post: 370087" data-attributes="member: 5010"><p>It would depend on if he still exceeded his mates by a large margin at YW, and if I had to "market" the bull ;-) .</p><p></p><p>If he did, then I would not buy him as his performance is due to genetics as well as the recip dam. If his YW exceeds his contemporaries by a <em>wide</em> margin at YW, it is due to his genetics, so his EPD would come up as he is proven.</p><p></p><p>The Continental recip added over 23 pounds to his BW compared to the average of the other calves and 70 pounds to his WW. I would expect a Continental cow to add about 4% to BW and 5% to WW. In this case, the cow added 27% to BW and 9% to WW. I would believe she added more to BW than WW. </p><p></p><p>If you give us the YW, I can build a regression equation to predict his expected performance from these numbers. Anything very much over the expectation, would suggest he is a "bigger" bull genetically.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If his ADG is higher than average and his YW is more than about 50 pounds heavier than his brothers, it would suggest to me that he is a "bigger" bull genetically.</p><p></p><p>His early performance backs up your claim that his Continental influenced dam added BW. He is coming back into line for WW, and if he comes farther back toward the middle for YW, then I could conclude that he is indeed genetically similar to the other calves.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Badlands</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Badlands, post: 370087, member: 5010"] It would depend on if he still exceeded his mates by a large margin at YW, and if I had to "market" the bull ;-) . If he did, then I would not buy him as his performance is due to genetics as well as the recip dam. If his YW exceeds his contemporaries by a [i]wide[/i] margin at YW, it is due to his genetics, so his EPD would come up as he is proven. The Continental recip added over 23 pounds to his BW compared to the average of the other calves and 70 pounds to his WW. I would expect a Continental cow to add about 4% to BW and 5% to WW. In this case, the cow added 27% to BW and 9% to WW. I would believe she added more to BW than WW. If you give us the YW, I can build a regression equation to predict his expected performance from these numbers. Anything very much over the expectation, would suggest he is a "bigger" bull genetically. If his ADG is higher than average and his YW is more than about 50 pounds heavier than his brothers, it would suggest to me that he is a "bigger" bull genetically. His early performance backs up your claim that his Continental influenced dam added BW. He is coming back into line for WW, and if he comes farther back toward the middle for YW, then I could conclude that he is indeed genetically similar to the other calves. Badlands [/QUOTE]
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