Recipient Cows

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I have had purebred simmental for the past 3 years and was thinking about buying some embryo's to implant next spring. My question is that I see some embryo's put into commercial cows and then I see some put into purebred cows. What would be the difference? Is there a benifit one way or the other?

I don't know about Simmentals, but Angus embryos put into commercial cows don't have EPDs and their performance data (BW, WW, etc.) is not accepted by the Assn. If they're raised by a registered Angus cow with EPDs, their performance information is accepted and they will have EPDs.

This is from the Angus web site.



ET calves out of commercial recipient dams receive only a pedigree-estimated interim EPD with a 0.05 accuracy, since the EPD is just the average of the sire EPD and the donor dam EPD. If the donor dam has interims, the ET calf will have no EPD. (The donor dam would need to have a natural calf with performance data submitted in a proper group, and then she would have true EPDs generated during the next NCE.)