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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 821522" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>The breed association can not use your data for EPDs if only one bull is involved. You have to use a minimum of two bulls and one of those has to be used in another herd someplace for meaningful EPDs to be calculated. Another argument FOR AI is that if you need to AI a few cows for the EPDs it really is not a lot more work to AI 5 cows in a 30 cow herd than it is to AI all 30 cows. If you breed all of your cows to ONE name bull you will inevitably get that cowboy who for some reason doesn't like EXT (disposition), 036 (butt), Objective (picture), Emblazon (growth), and you just lost a sale (ditto if that bull becomes unfashionable) AND using different bloodlines protects you from the unlikely event of something like the Precision disaster. </p><p></p><p>And as far as cleanup bulls are concerned, if you synchronized the herd, most of the open cows are going to show up 15 to 25 days after the AI so heatchecking them for the opens is not all that difficult or time consuming especially in a 30 cow herd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 821522, member: 7645"] The breed association can not use your data for EPDs if only one bull is involved. You have to use a minimum of two bulls and one of those has to be used in another herd someplace for meaningful EPDs to be calculated. Another argument FOR AI is that if you need to AI a few cows for the EPDs it really is not a lot more work to AI 5 cows in a 30 cow herd than it is to AI all 30 cows. If you breed all of your cows to ONE name bull you will inevitably get that cowboy who for some reason doesn't like EXT (disposition), 036 (butt), Objective (picture), Emblazon (growth), and you just lost a sale (ditto if that bull becomes unfashionable) AND using different bloodlines protects you from the unlikely event of something like the Precision disaster. And as far as cleanup bulls are concerned, if you synchronized the herd, most of the open cows are going to show up 15 to 25 days after the AI so heatchecking them for the opens is not all that difficult or time consuming especially in a 30 cow herd. [/QUOTE]
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