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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 784119" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>Such a show would serve absolutely NO purpose whatsoever. A "show" (at least in theory) uses visual evaluation to rank the cattle. Once you have a field full of calves to evaluate a bull with, you judge him by his calves NOT by his own visual appearance. Visual evaluation (like pedigree study, actual performance measurements, and virgin EPDs) is an attempt to predict what an animal <strong>WIL</strong>L do before we have anything real (ie progeny) to judge by. Once you have 200 progeny out in the fields to evaluate, you judge a bull by what he actually <strong>did</strong>. The progeny matter more than how bull #1 profiles or whether or not I prefer how he sets up versus bull #2. It is the same with the EPDs. His performance and his sibs performance matters in a virgin EPD. Once a bull has got 200+ progeny in the tabulations they overwhelms that virgin EPD data in the calculations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 784119, member: 7645"] Such a show would serve absolutely NO purpose whatsoever. A "show" (at least in theory) uses visual evaluation to rank the cattle. Once you have a field full of calves to evaluate a bull with, you judge him by his calves NOT by his own visual appearance. Visual evaluation (like pedigree study, actual performance measurements, and virgin EPDs) is an attempt to predict what an animal [b]WIL[/b]L do before we have anything real (ie progeny) to judge by. Once you have 200 progeny out in the fields to evaluate, you judge a bull by what he actually [b]did[/b]. The progeny matter more than how bull #1 profiles or whether or not I prefer how he sets up versus bull #2. It is the same with the EPDs. His performance and his sibs performance matters in a virgin EPD. Once a bull has got 200+ progeny in the tabulations they overwhelms that virgin EPD data in the calculations. [/QUOTE]
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