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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1155700" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>I agree with all that has been said here. We always breed up, never down. A half blood will be AId to a purebred at our place. With the EPD's we always use known AI sires, so the EPD's are pretty accurate on the resulting calves. We do have one cow in our herd that is a half blood, sired by Macho and her dam is only known as 1/4 Maine and 1/4 angus, but no parentage. Her EPD stinks because of this, since she only gets the numbers from her sire as I understand it. And he does not have a good set of EPDs. That cow weans off one of our heaviest calves each year, and two years in a row her bulls have won at the Missouri State Fair... Champion percentage in open and junior. She is by far one of our best cows, picture perfect udder and good conception... But she passes her epd profile down to her calves.... And that stinks.</p><p>We have people buying bulls of both purebred and percentage, but the lowest percentage we have sold was 3/4 blood. People look more at phenotype and EPD's than whether he is purebred or not. Most of our customers just want more pounds at weaning and do not care about the registration papers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1155700, member: 18809"] I agree with all that has been said here. We always breed up, never down. A half blood will be AId to a purebred at our place. With the EPD's we always use known AI sires, so the EPD's are pretty accurate on the resulting calves. We do have one cow in our herd that is a half blood, sired by Macho and her dam is only known as 1/4 Maine and 1/4 angus, but no parentage. Her EPD stinks because of this, since she only gets the numbers from her sire as I understand it. And he does not have a good set of EPDs. That cow weans off one of our heaviest calves each year, and two years in a row her bulls have won at the Missouri State Fair... Champion percentage in open and junior. She is by far one of our best cows, picture perfect udder and good conception... But she passes her epd profile down to her calves.... And that stinks. We have people buying bulls of both purebred and percentage, but the lowest percentage we have sold was 3/4 blood. People look more at phenotype and EPD's than whether he is purebred or not. Most of our customers just want more pounds at weaning and do not care about the registration papers. [/QUOTE]
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