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<blockquote data-quote="alexfarms" data-source="post: 687203" data-attributes="member: 8677"><p>I pretty much agree with most of the responses. I know we have to select and cull for everything, but it seems to me like if the carcass traits are more highly heritable, then they will be easier to change and that makes them less important. I don't think the functional traits, which are less heritable, should be compromised on since they are more difficult to change. In today's marketplace so much emphasis is being placed on show ring winners and epd toppers and both of those programs seem to reward the carcass traits. The profitablility index that the AHA has come out with are an attempt to wrap it all together, but I don't think they are well understood or proven...yet. JMHO></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alexfarms, post: 687203, member: 8677"] I pretty much agree with most of the responses. I know we have to select and cull for everything, but it seems to me like if the carcass traits are more highly heritable, then they will be easier to change and that makes them less important. I don't think the functional traits, which are less heritable, should be compromised on since they are more difficult to change. In today's marketplace so much emphasis is being placed on show ring winners and epd toppers and both of those programs seem to reward the carcass traits. The profitablility index that the AHA has come out with are an attempt to wrap it all together, but I don't think they are well understood or proven...yet. JMHO> [/QUOTE]
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