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<blockquote data-quote="txag" data-source="post: 280083" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>the best answer i can come up with for that question is "it depends". it depends on where you're marketing them & it depends on who's buying them. some commercial buyers have no interest in epd's & only look at actual weights. if they're going in a consignment sale, you'll have folks who look at epd's, folks who look at actual weights & folks who look at both. from my experience, it seems folks will buy a female with a higher bw epd quicker than they will buy a herd bull (for animals going into registered herds). i guess they think they can pull one calf easier than a whole herd of them. :lol: </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Jimmy & Leatha Farrington were breeders a number of years ago. their prefix was "JLF" so you can search for some of their animals that way.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>one thing to consider on the rapidly changing epd's of popular bulls is that they are often used on cows with epd's almost opposite of their own in certain traits. for example, folks will use a low bw epd bull on cows with high birthweights & will use a high yw epd bull to increase the growth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="txag, post: 280083, member: 8"] the best answer i can come up with for that question is "it depends". it depends on where you're marketing them & it depends on who's buying them. some commercial buyers have no interest in epd's & only look at actual weights. if they're going in a consignment sale, you'll have folks who look at epd's, folks who look at actual weights & folks who look at both. from my experience, it seems folks will buy a female with a higher bw epd quicker than they will buy a herd bull (for animals going into registered herds). i guess they think they can pull one calf easier than a whole herd of them. :lol: Jimmy & Leatha Farrington were breeders a number of years ago. their prefix was "JLF" so you can search for some of their animals that way. one thing to consider on the rapidly changing epd's of popular bulls is that they are often used on cows with epd's almost opposite of their own in certain traits. for example, folks will use a low bw epd bull on cows with high birthweights & will use a high yw epd bull to increase the growth. [/QUOTE]
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