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How much can you breed in bigger rib eye size?
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<blockquote data-quote="hornedfrogbbq" data-source="post: 1612072" data-attributes="member: 32773"><p>Please let me dial-in this question a bit. I really have a good understanding of the EPD's of ribeye length...and the ultrasound actuals. I am asking a different question: has anyone tried to breed in a larger ribeye?</p><p></p><p>So everyone is clear if you have not read my earlier posts, we have done no breeding for carcass or ribeye but fertility, balanced growth, moderate frame and wean weight.</p><p></p><p>Now that we are retaining ownership through the feed yard and getting paid on the value grid, I am focused on improving our scores there. We have focused on feet and fertility and longevity. If you look at many of what we would call great herds, they remain focused on multiple traits. They focus on efficiency/dmi/radg and they focus on fertility and they focus on longevity and about every 4 years they roll in a carcass merit bull. I fully realize there are herds that focus on terminal/prime traits and grades. We are not chasing that. In fact, we believe the big herds that chase that have very terminal herds and horrible feet. Even they are starting to figure out they potentially over-focused, singularly, on carcass traits and their females are undesirable (let alone the phenotype/look).</p><p></p><p>So....anyone out there trying to have larger ribeye on a balanced basis</p><p></p><p>So my question is, after we have not focusing on the carcass traits in a large way, has anyone focused on ribeye specifically (not to the exclusion of anything else...but a focus).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hornedfrogbbq, post: 1612072, member: 32773"] Please let me dial-in this question a bit. I really have a good understanding of the EPD's of ribeye length...and the ultrasound actuals. I am asking a different question: has anyone tried to breed in a larger ribeye? So everyone is clear if you have not read my earlier posts, we have done no breeding for carcass or ribeye but fertility, balanced growth, moderate frame and wean weight. Now that we are retaining ownership through the feed yard and getting paid on the value grid, I am focused on improving our scores there. We have focused on feet and fertility and longevity. If you look at many of what we would call great herds, they remain focused on multiple traits. They focus on efficiency/dmi/radg and they focus on fertility and they focus on longevity and about every 4 years they roll in a carcass merit bull. I fully realize there are herds that focus on terminal/prime traits and grades. We are not chasing that. In fact, we believe the big herds that chase that have very terminal herds and horrible feet. Even they are starting to figure out they potentially over-focused, singularly, on carcass traits and their females are undesirable (let alone the phenotype/look). So....anyone out there trying to have larger ribeye on a balanced basis So my question is, after we have not focusing on the carcass traits in a large way, has anyone focused on ribeye specifically (not to the exclusion of anything else...but a focus). [/QUOTE]
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