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<blockquote data-quote="RD-Sam" data-source="post: 611453" data-attributes="member: 7927"><p>In the angus breed you have an EN value, several things are involved in calulating that, milk being one of them. If there is too much weight gain it is reflected in the EN value going in a negative direction, which means the calf is not efficient. I guess mainly I am concerned with heifers I would keep from a breeding like this. A steer wouldn't matter. The top bull right now in $B has about $1+ on the EN value, if I remember right he is about 15 on milk. Take another to bull that has close to the same $B and he has a -$12 on the EN, that is a loss of $13 in feed effieciency, partly due to about a 28 on milk. So what I am getting at is if I have an efficient cow that I want to flush, I don't want to ruin the calves EPD with too high or too low a milk number, I want to see about the same growth as I would see out of the donor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RD-Sam, post: 611453, member: 7927"] In the angus breed you have an EN value, several things are involved in calulating that, milk being one of them. If there is too much weight gain it is reflected in the EN value going in a negative direction, which means the calf is not efficient. I guess mainly I am concerned with heifers I would keep from a breeding like this. A steer wouldn't matter. The top bull right now in $B has about $1+ on the EN value, if I remember right he is about 15 on milk. Take another to bull that has close to the same $B and he has a -$12 on the EN, that is a loss of $13 in feed effieciency, partly due to about a 28 on milk. So what I am getting at is if I have an efficient cow that I want to flush, I don't want to ruin the calves EPD with too high or too low a milk number, I want to see about the same growth as I would see out of the donor. [/QUOTE]
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