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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 458754" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>The problem is how do you know that that calf IS a genetic jumper?? A calve's EPDs are just the average of his parents and a calve's individual performance is completely disreguarded in the EPD calculations if he is born out of a recipient. Therefore the best INTERIM $B, Weaning Wt EPD etc. you can produce is highest available trait leading sire to the highest trait leading dam that you can purchase. Three years from now when that progeny is a two year old....given that 350,000 more Angus were registered last year and the EPDs are recalculated every six months....how likely is it that it will still be in top 1% of the breed? Even if the animal is, it's numbers won't have any accuracy until he/she starts producing calves and it's numbers are as likely to drop as go down. A genetic jumper raises the bar. Doing what the EPDs predict is NOT good enough. 5-6 years from now many animals will likely have passed today's trait leaders. A genetic jumper has to do better than it's INTERIM numbers would indicate and the only way to know that (for a bull) is to breed him to a lot of cows in multiple herds which means promoting a good bull calf KNOWING that the odds are against him being truly GREAT. For a cow, she almost has to give birth to a great sire to be proven a "genetic jumper" in her lifetime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 458754, member: 2095"] The problem is how do you know that that calf IS a genetic jumper?? A calve's EPDs are just the average of his parents and a calve's individual performance is completely disreguarded in the EPD calculations if he is born out of a recipient. Therefore the best INTERIM $B, Weaning Wt EPD etc. you can produce is highest available trait leading sire to the highest trait leading dam that you can purchase. Three years from now when that progeny is a two year old....given that 350,000 more Angus were registered last year and the EPDs are recalculated every six months....how likely is it that it will still be in top 1% of the breed? Even if the animal is, it's numbers won't have any accuracy until he/she starts producing calves and it's numbers are as likely to drop as go down. A genetic jumper raises the bar. Doing what the EPDs predict is NOT good enough. 5-6 years from now many animals will likely have passed today's trait leaders. A genetic jumper has to do better than it's INTERIM numbers would indicate and the only way to know that (for a bull) is to breed him to a lot of cows in multiple herds which means promoting a good bull calf KNOWING that the odds are against him being truly GREAT. For a cow, she almost has to give birth to a great sire to be proven a "genetic jumper" in her lifetime. [/QUOTE]
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