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<blockquote data-quote="Jafruech" data-source="post: 1683117" data-attributes="member: 24025"><p>There's a lot of people who would disagree, both from a research and an application perspective. It is useful and a great tool....WHEN USED PROPERLY by people who know what they are doing. </p><p></p><p>You are absolutely right. Concentrating on any single trait to the exclusion of other traits leads to a wreck. WW, YW, and $F values are key examples of that in the beef industry.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't advocating for concentrating on that to the exclusion of other traits....but it is a requirement in the traits I breed for. I do believe absolutely that you should be looking at a multitude of traits when it comes to selection and culling. You should be looking at animals and your herd holistically...but...you should also have a list of "automatic no-go's" that results in culling no matter what else is good. Disposition is one of those for me. I actually have a pretty long list of things that will get a cow/replacement heifer culled without hesitation. I don't just keep something because it has good disposition....but I do cull in a heartbeat for bad disposition, regardless of what other good traits they have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jafruech, post: 1683117, member: 24025"] There's a lot of people who would disagree, both from a research and an application perspective. It is useful and a great tool....WHEN USED PROPERLY by people who know what they are doing. You are absolutely right. Concentrating on any single trait to the exclusion of other traits leads to a wreck. WW, YW, and $F values are key examples of that in the beef industry. I wasn't advocating for concentrating on that to the exclusion of other traits....but it is a requirement in the traits I breed for. I do believe absolutely that you should be looking at a multitude of traits when it comes to selection and culling. You should be looking at animals and your herd holistically...but...you should also have a list of "automatic no-go's" that results in culling no matter what else is good. Disposition is one of those for me. I actually have a pretty long list of things that will get a cow/replacement heifer culled without hesitation. I don't just keep something because it has good disposition....but I do cull in a heartbeat for bad disposition, regardless of what other good traits they have. [/QUOTE]
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