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<blockquote data-quote="novatech" data-source="post: 595567" data-attributes="member: 5494"><p>After fertility what to breed for next is up to the breeder in trying to improve specific traits with individual cows or maybe the entire herd. These things or goals will be up to the individual. Some want to improve on meat quality and some want to improve on phenotype. I really do not do the individual improvement for the individual cow. I have a list of bulls that I AI to. I will usually stick with only 2 of these bulls for the year. It is simply to hard for me to select a bull based on the limited amount of information given in an AI catalogue. You rarely get a picture from the back or front and I have never seen a bull with an udder. :lol: I have never seen a fertility EPD. There is only one way to get the info needed so that you do not end up breeding something in that you do not want. That is looking at progeny and talking to other people that have used these bulls in the past. </p><p>The smaller your operation, the more selective you must be, because you simply do not produce enough progeny to cull as you should. It is human nature to be biased when developing your own cattle. Consequently the slower herd improvement will be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novatech, post: 595567, member: 5494"] After fertility what to breed for next is up to the breeder in trying to improve specific traits with individual cows or maybe the entire herd. These things or goals will be up to the individual. Some want to improve on meat quality and some want to improve on phenotype. I really do not do the individual improvement for the individual cow. I have a list of bulls that I AI to. I will usually stick with only 2 of these bulls for the year. It is simply to hard for me to select a bull based on the limited amount of information given in an AI catalogue. You rarely get a picture from the back or front and I have never seen a bull with an udder. :lol: I have never seen a fertility EPD. There is only one way to get the info needed so that you do not end up breeding something in that you do not want. That is looking at progeny and talking to other people that have used these bulls in the past. The smaller your operation, the more selective you must be, because you simply do not produce enough progeny to cull as you should. It is human nature to be biased when developing your own cattle. Consequently the slower herd improvement will be. [/QUOTE]
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