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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1285492" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>We pay attention to EPDs and use them as part of making our breeding decisions but I sure as hell would not buy a poor looking heifer just because she has good EPDs. Anyone that is doing that is not using all the tools available to evaluate animals and EPDs are just that, it's only 1 of many tools one can use to evaluate an animal. That's one of the biggest flaws with how people use EPDs because they aren't necessarily gospel and a lot of people also don't pay attention to the accuracy numbers of those EPDs when looking at them too. A perfect example is picking out a "heifer bull" to use, someone might tell you "well look at that low BW EPD! he'll be just fine on heifers" but a lot of times that BW EPD accuracy is fairly low so you can't always say that with confidence till you start seeing what kind of calves that bull is making and the accuracy of the EPD increases from actual birth weights being reported back in that animal's pedigree.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1285492, member: 20580"] We pay attention to EPDs and use them as part of making our breeding decisions but I sure as hell would not buy a poor looking heifer just because she has good EPDs. Anyone that is doing that is not using all the tools available to evaluate animals and EPDs are just that, it's only 1 of many tools one can use to evaluate an animal. That's one of the biggest flaws with how people use EPDs because they aren't necessarily gospel and a lot of people also don't pay attention to the accuracy numbers of those EPDs when looking at them too. A perfect example is picking out a "heifer bull" to use, someone might tell you "well look at that low BW EPD! he'll be just fine on heifers" but a lot of times that BW EPD accuracy is fairly low so you can't always say that with confidence till you start seeing what kind of calves that bull is making and the accuracy of the EPD increases from actual birth weights being reported back in that animal's pedigree. [/QUOTE]
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