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How do you select the bull(s) you are going to breed to?
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<blockquote data-quote="robert" data-source="post: 820239" data-attributes="member: 9171"><p>EPDs are the best average guess of what the bull may sire on the average, with no consideration of type, structure, character and suitability for environment. </p><p></p><p>If I buy a herd bull or semen on a sire my main criteria of structure, type and character have to get past my screening process of pedigree and BREEDER, if there are animals in the pedigree I am prejudiced against then I don't care what they look like or what their magical numbers may be. If I have reason to doubt the breeder then there is no way I use them. For the most part we back our own genetics, our herd bulls are mainly homebred at this time and we plan to use more homegrown down the line to intensify the influence of certain foundation females throughout the herd. I am a seedstock producer so my business is not to steal hybrid vigor from the commercial man but to provide a predictable, sound package of genetics that give him consistency and predictability in a planned crossbreeding or even straight breeding program. When the so-called purebred herd is a mish-mash of outcrossed, cross-types where is the building block for the commercial customer?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robert, post: 820239, member: 9171"] EPDs are the best average guess of what the bull may sire on the average, with no consideration of type, structure, character and suitability for environment. If I buy a herd bull or semen on a sire my main criteria of structure, type and character have to get past my screening process of pedigree and BREEDER, if there are animals in the pedigree I am prejudiced against then I don't care what they look like or what their magical numbers may be. If I have reason to doubt the breeder then there is no way I use them. For the most part we back our own genetics, our herd bulls are mainly homebred at this time and we plan to use more homegrown down the line to intensify the influence of certain foundation females throughout the herd. I am a seedstock producer so my business is not to steal hybrid vigor from the commercial man but to provide a predictable, sound package of genetics that give him consistency and predictability in a planned crossbreeding or even straight breeding program. When the so-called purebred herd is a mish-mash of outcrossed, cross-types where is the building block for the commercial customer? [/QUOTE]
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