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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 637606" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>Last time I'm bumping this thread.</p><p></p><p>Latest post: <a href="http://beeflivestocknotes.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Selecting Cattle based on EPDs</a></p><p></p><p>Just to give you a taste:</p><p></p><p>"The modern era in beef cattle breeding was ushered in with the weighing of animals and the keeping of written production records. This led to performance testing programs, most of which were aimed at improvement of growth rate and feed efficiency. The ease of measuring these two characteristics made performance testing acceptable to producers.</p><p></p><p>Simply stated, performance testing is a recordkeeping system for the purpose of collecting data to be used in selection. It has been an important selection tool in the hands of producers. It brought an awareness that some animals are more efficient than others, and that such characteristics as rate of gain and feed efficiency are at least partially under genetic control and can be passed on to offspring.</p><p></p><p>However, a performance testing program based only on rate of gain and feed efficiency is not adequate. To fill this need, Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) evolved.</p><p></p><p>Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) are the differences in performance expected from the offspring of one individual compared to the offspring of another individual within the same breed."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 637606, member: 3739"] Last time I'm bumping this thread. Latest post: [url=http://beeflivestocknotes.blogspot.com]Selecting Cattle based on EPDs[/url] Just to give you a taste: "The modern era in beef cattle breeding was ushered in with the weighing of animals and the keeping of written production records. This led to performance testing programs, most of which were aimed at improvement of growth rate and feed efficiency. The ease of measuring these two characteristics made performance testing acceptable to producers. Simply stated, performance testing is a recordkeeping system for the purpose of collecting data to be used in selection. It has been an important selection tool in the hands of producers. It brought an awareness that some animals are more efficient than others, and that such characteristics as rate of gain and feed efficiency are at least partially under genetic control and can be passed on to offspring. However, a performance testing program based only on rate of gain and feed efficiency is not adequate. To fill this need, Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) evolved. Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) are the differences in performance expected from the offspring of one individual compared to the offspring of another individual within the same breed." [/QUOTE]
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