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maybe the system is NOT rigged!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1356826" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>Dead on.</p><p></p><p>My concern over the system: it has been in place for 40 years. How many more decades will it take for it to work in expected transmissions of traits and EPDs from generation to generation? In a young animal without progeny, even the test station proven bulls, the EPDs merely represent the average calf of the sire and the average calf of the dam. So you never know where the young individual falls under the bell curve. The EPD system seems to lack the ability to create cattle with prepotency .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1356826, member: 24565"] Dead on. My concern over the system: it has been in place for 40 years. How many more decades will it take for it to work in expected transmissions of traits and EPDs from generation to generation? In a young animal without progeny, even the test station proven bulls, the EPDs merely represent the average calf of the sire and the average calf of the dam. So you never know where the young individual falls under the bell curve. The EPD system seems to lack the ability to create cattle with prepotency . [/QUOTE]
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