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<blockquote data-quote="DOC HARRIS" data-source="post: 1321223" data-attributes="member: 1683"><p>Jabes0623-</p><p></p><p>Now let's just stop and take a deep breath and consider what you are contemplating here. What are your <strong>GOALS</strong> in beef breeding? Can you really take the black heifer and the red heifer - compare their phenotype, and EPD's - and see <strong><em>BOTH</em></strong> of these heifers fitting into your idea of what a balanced future herd would look like and perform like?? Do you really think that both of these heifers would produce progeny that would compare in whatever quality cattle you want in a breeding herd? You would be working on building a herd of hodge-podge cattle that would take you at least twelve years of changing your breeding technics and management plans to gain an acceptably balanced breeding herd by retaining heifers from both of these calves. The red heifer is a fine beginning specimen to blend with a bull whose traits are similar. The black heifer (bless her little pea-pickin' heart !) is a square peg in a round hole.</p><p></p><p>Don't be barn blind - I don't care what her EPD's are or who her sire and dam are. You don't want to build a BEEF herd with that type of phenotype! Use MULTIPLE TRAIT SELECTION decisions in keeping breeders.</p><p>Not the black.</p><p></p><p>DOC HARRIS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DOC HARRIS, post: 1321223, member: 1683"] Jabes0623- Now let's just stop and take a deep breath and consider what you are contemplating here. What are your [b]GOALS[/b] in beef breeding? Can you really take the black heifer and the red heifer - compare their phenotype, and EPD's - and see [b][i]BOTH[/i][/b] of these heifers fitting into your idea of what a balanced future herd would look like and perform like?? Do you really think that both of these heifers would produce progeny that would compare in whatever quality cattle you want in a breeding herd? You would be working on building a herd of hodge-podge cattle that would take you at least twelve years of changing your breeding technics and management plans to gain an acceptably balanced breeding herd by retaining heifers from both of these calves. The red heifer is a fine beginning specimen to blend with a bull whose traits are similar. The black heifer (bless her little pea-pickin' heart !) is a square peg in a round hole. Don't be barn blind - I don't care what her EPD's are or who her sire and dam are. You don't want to build a BEEF herd with that type of phenotype! Use MULTIPLE TRAIT SELECTION decisions in keeping breeders. Not the black. DOC HARRIS [/QUOTE]
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