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<blockquote data-quote="OLF" data-source="post: 640516" data-attributes="member: 9761"><p><u>Step 2</u>-</p><p></p><p>10 of Easy Deal's calve were born in contemporary groups, all in Lee Hutchens herd (LBH in NV).</p><p></p><p>The other bulls siring calves in these contemporary group(s):</p><p>Feltons Legend 242 (BW EPD -0.4)</p><p>D&M 53H Kreedence 003K (BW EPD +5.0)</p><p>UPH Prospector P152 (BW EPD -1.4)</p><p>LBH Legend 602 (BW EPD +2.3)</p><p></p><p>Three out of the four of these are below breed average for BW. Most of the high ratio BW calves were sired by Kreedence as expected, and he pushes down the ratios for the others. However, for Easy Deal to have an average progeny BW ratio of 94.6% with Legend and Prospector calves in the contemporary group, is a good sign that he is producing calving ease calves. It's possible that Easy Deal is bred to cows known or expected to produce low birth weight calves, while Legend is bred to high BW EPD cows to produce heavier calves. This would make Easy Deal look better in relation to Legend. I'm not sure if they did that. You really have to churn through all of the Performance Pedigrees to make that determination, I only looked at a sampling. I don't know if they would purposely drive down the BW because it also brings down WW and YW EPDs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OLF, post: 640516, member: 9761"] [u]Step 2[/u]- 10 of Easy Deal's calve were born in contemporary groups, all in Lee Hutchens herd (LBH in NV). The other bulls siring calves in these contemporary group(s): Feltons Legend 242 (BW EPD -0.4) D&M 53H Kreedence 003K (BW EPD +5.0) UPH Prospector P152 (BW EPD -1.4) LBH Legend 602 (BW EPD +2.3) Three out of the four of these are below breed average for BW. Most of the high ratio BW calves were sired by Kreedence as expected, and he pushes down the ratios for the others. However, for Easy Deal to have an average progeny BW ratio of 94.6% with Legend and Prospector calves in the contemporary group, is a good sign that he is producing calving ease calves. It's possible that Easy Deal is bred to cows known or expected to produce low birth weight calves, while Legend is bred to high BW EPD cows to produce heavier calves. This would make Easy Deal look better in relation to Legend. I'm not sure if they did that. You really have to churn through all of the Performance Pedigrees to make that determination, I only looked at a sampling. I don't know if they would purposely drive down the BW because it also brings down WW and YW EPDs. [/QUOTE]
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