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<blockquote data-quote="smnherf" data-source="post: 693935" data-attributes="member: 3235"><p>I won't use a bull just for his epd profile. He needs to have more than just the right profile for me. His epd profile may exclude him from use in my herd though. My statement was based on his lack of IMF epd. I try to avoid extremes on both ends and he is on the low end.</p><p></p><p>He was one of the first 10 bulls I ever sold. I origninally sold the bull to a neighbor who used him for a couple years on commercial angus heifers and then for a couple years on his cow herd. Meanwhile, I had his daddy here and used him several more years. He had a high percentage of choice carcasses on his steers. When the neighbor was done with him I bought him back because I thought he was one of the best bulls I raised and many of the AI sires I used hadn't lived up to their billing. Based on what his cow family had done I decided to find a way to use him even if I had to inbreed him some. Now understand, he is related to probably 75% of my cow herd both purebred and commercial. His full brother whom I used 1 year clean up after AI didn't scan very well for IMF either so my concern was that his calves wouldn't be as easy for me to market as better epd cattle would be. I am new to the bull business and trying to establish a customer base and having better epds for a marketing tool is helpfull. In this case, epds have been to my detriment as several of my first customers where watching epds carefully as they were retaining ownership on their calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smnherf, post: 693935, member: 3235"] I won't use a bull just for his epd profile. He needs to have more than just the right profile for me. His epd profile may exclude him from use in my herd though. My statement was based on his lack of IMF epd. I try to avoid extremes on both ends and he is on the low end. He was one of the first 10 bulls I ever sold. I origninally sold the bull to a neighbor who used him for a couple years on commercial angus heifers and then for a couple years on his cow herd. Meanwhile, I had his daddy here and used him several more years. He had a high percentage of choice carcasses on his steers. When the neighbor was done with him I bought him back because I thought he was one of the best bulls I raised and many of the AI sires I used hadn't lived up to their billing. Based on what his cow family had done I decided to find a way to use him even if I had to inbreed him some. Now understand, he is related to probably 75% of my cow herd both purebred and commercial. His full brother whom I used 1 year clean up after AI didn't scan very well for IMF either so my concern was that his calves wouldn't be as easy for me to market as better epd cattle would be. I am new to the bull business and trying to establish a customer base and having better epds for a marketing tool is helpfull. In this case, epds have been to my detriment as several of my first customers where watching epds carefully as they were retaining ownership on their calves. [/QUOTE]
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