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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 351052" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>I think linebreeding is a hard sell today. Bull buyers (more or less) understand EPDs and they (typically) are looking for a bull in the top 40% (or better) of the breed in those traits the buyers deem important. The problem with linebreeding a modern sire is that TYPICALLY by the time a bull has been 'proven' (and I would define that as 85% accuracy and daughters who have been in production at least 8 years) there are 50 bulls in the AI catologs with better numbers and as time passes that numbers gap continues to grow. I remember when Scotch Cap was one of the hottest two or three bulls in the Angus breed. IF somebody had chosen to spend the last 15-20 years linebreeding Scotch Cap's progeny(while I would be eager to see what resulted) I doubt that (unless you had a very big herd) you would have identified enough high EPD outliers too keep up with the EPD inflation we have seen in the last 20 years. IF you have been around a LOOONNGG time, and have bull buyers who believe in you and your cattle, I think that you can still run a linebred program and make good money at it. The big problem with linebreeding is that it is very possible to pour your heart, mind, body, and soul into a cattle herd for thirty years and wind up with a group of cattle that aren't very marketable. I am not trying to discourage anybody here; but I think most breeders would make more money (and probably have better cattle) if they just stuck to multiplying the popular genetics of the day (within reason of course).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 351052, member: 2095"] I think linebreeding is a hard sell today. Bull buyers (more or less) understand EPDs and they (typically) are looking for a bull in the top 40% (or better) of the breed in those traits the buyers deem important. The problem with linebreeding a modern sire is that TYPICALLY by the time a bull has been 'proven' (and I would define that as 85% accuracy and daughters who have been in production at least 8 years) there are 50 bulls in the AI catologs with better numbers and as time passes that numbers gap continues to grow. I remember when Scotch Cap was one of the hottest two or three bulls in the Angus breed. IF somebody had chosen to spend the last 15-20 years linebreeding Scotch Cap's progeny(while I would be eager to see what resulted) I doubt that (unless you had a very big herd) you would have identified enough high EPD outliers too keep up with the EPD inflation we have seen in the last 20 years. IF you have been around a LOOONNGG time, and have bull buyers who believe in you and your cattle, I think that you can still run a linebred program and make good money at it. The big problem with linebreeding is that it is very possible to pour your heart, mind, body, and soul into a cattle herd for thirty years and wind up with a group of cattle that aren't very marketable. I am not trying to discourage anybody here; but I think most breeders would make more money (and probably have better cattle) if they just stuck to multiplying the popular genetics of the day (within reason of course). [/QUOTE]
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