HerefordSire
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whitecow":m68yb2g1 said:I'm not trying to defend associations for not making the effort to produce a longevity/stayability EPD, but it has become a very difficult thing to estimate. The information to generate an estimate with any degree of accuracy would have to rely heavily on relatives and pedgree estimates. As many of the animals with lots of relatives/progeny are the result of flushing donors, longevity data is greatly skewed. A donor is most often not treated like the rest of the herd in a normal environment. She may be overly pampered or her reproductive life may be cut short because of over exposure to hormones.
Without including data from donors, it becomes very difficult to get enough information to produce an estimate with any real accuracy.
Hi whitecow! How do I find a bull that has the highest probability to live longest?