gizmom":2657tm0q said:
SPH
js - EPD's might be a driving force in some purebred circles but they are not going to drive this old girls train. I am not going to join the bull of the month club either, just going to do what I love and breed good functional cattle, that work in my environment and let the chips fall.
gizmom
it would improve cattle in general if more purebred folks adhered to your logic. the vast majority will say they do but a good percentage of them don't. i get the "pitch" to come buy bulls at an awful lot of auctions around and have looked at a lot of programs. for every purebred outfit i visit where they genuinely seem to understand what a cow is supposed to be, there are 2, maybe 3 that i truly believe would buy a donkey to use for a herdsire if he had "curve bending, breed leading, industry changing, blah, blah, blah EPD's"