Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeds Board
Reaching genetic potential
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 154321" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>EPDs are "supposedly" the average taken across all possible enivronments. Obviously, in an extremely harsh environment your are not going to see a +100 yearling weight EPD spread be expressed in a set of calves, even if it exists in the genes. I think in a perfect world where nutrition is perfect, weather is perfect (not too hot or too frigid), no droughts, no floods (OR hurricanes!@!) and herd health is fantastic and all the calves are being fed creep so each calf grows to his maximum genetic potential I THINK (we are really guessing here) the high EPD cattle would outperform the EPD and you would see an even bigger spread between the mediocre genetics and the great genetics than what the EPD shows. All that said I don't really know enough to recognize that mythical AVG ranch conditions where all the numbers work out perfectly like they say in the pedigrees if you took me out to the ranch and showed me the place. The EPDs are good but they are not perfect. It is very possible that some high EPD cattle will not perform well in your particular environment. They are averages across cattle types, management styles, environments, etc and are not meant to perfectly predict what exact spread you will find in two sets of calves on your individual farm....though they are the best prediction tool available to us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 154321, member: 2095"] EPDs are "supposedly" the average taken across all possible enivronments. Obviously, in an extremely harsh environment your are not going to see a +100 yearling weight EPD spread be expressed in a set of calves, even if it exists in the genes. I think in a perfect world where nutrition is perfect, weather is perfect (not too hot or too frigid), no droughts, no floods (OR hurricanes!@!) and herd health is fantastic and all the calves are being fed creep so each calf grows to his maximum genetic potential I THINK (we are really guessing here) the high EPD cattle would outperform the EPD and you would see an even bigger spread between the mediocre genetics and the great genetics than what the EPD shows. All that said I don't really know enough to recognize that mythical AVG ranch conditions where all the numbers work out perfectly like they say in the pedigrees if you took me out to the ranch and showed me the place. The EPDs are good but they are not perfect. It is very possible that some high EPD cattle will not perform well in your particular environment. They are averages across cattle types, management styles, environments, etc and are not meant to perfectly predict what exact spread you will find in two sets of calves on your individual farm....though they are the best prediction tool available to us. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Breeds Board
Reaching genetic potential
Top