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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 700613" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>This question really come down to what kind of cow do you want. If you want a big cow with maximum milk, maximum growth, and maximum frame EPDs are extremely useful......just select the bull with the highest numbers of everything. If the primary purpose of purchasing a sire is to sire moderate framed easy keeping females, then I think everything with a negative $EN is eliminated from ANY consideration as the first step. 50% of the sires in the Angus breed have a $EN of +3.51 or higher. I would limit my search to bulls with that or better. You probably want to stay away from bulls in the top 25% of the breed for maternal weight (+50), maternal height (+.7), or maternal milk (+25) though the way they calculate the $EN number gets rid of a lot of those bulls. Really that is probably ALL the help you can get from the EPDs. High growth bulls often sire too big daughters; but there are a lot of bulls with moderate growth EPDs that aren't great cow makers. The only thing you can do is eyeball a lot of cows and stick with the lines that consistently produce the kinds of cows that get it done. Then you want to find an easy tracking, well muscled, strong topped, deep ribbed, easy fleshing, structurally sound, easy fleshing bull out of a really strong dam.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 700613, member: 7645"] This question really come down to what kind of cow do you want. If you want a big cow with maximum milk, maximum growth, and maximum frame EPDs are extremely useful......just select the bull with the highest numbers of everything. If the primary purpose of purchasing a sire is to sire moderate framed easy keeping females, then I think everything with a negative $EN is eliminated from ANY consideration as the first step. 50% of the sires in the Angus breed have a $EN of +3.51 or higher. I would limit my search to bulls with that or better. You probably want to stay away from bulls in the top 25% of the breed for maternal weight (+50), maternal height (+.7), or maternal milk (+25) though the way they calculate the $EN number gets rid of a lot of those bulls. Really that is probably ALL the help you can get from the EPDs. High growth bulls often sire too big daughters; but there are a lot of bulls with moderate growth EPDs that aren't great cow makers. The only thing you can do is eyeball a lot of cows and stick with the lines that consistently produce the kinds of cows that get it done. Then you want to find an easy tracking, well muscled, strong topped, deep ribbed, easy fleshing, structurally sound, easy fleshing bull out of a really strong dam. [/QUOTE]
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