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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 687642" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>If I am buying a bull too breed crossbred cows I picked up at the stockyard, it is not really all that difficult to find one that will improve those cows. There are probably a 100++ of them within 60 miles from me. Now for a "breeder" with a very elite set of cows who has been picking matings for multiple generations with certain specific goals (phenotype, EPDs, pedigrees, etc) he is working towards it SHOULD get increasingly more difficult too find a sire that improves that specific set of cows in the multiple ways that the breeder intends. That person may need to get on a plane too find his next herd sire. There is no right answer in this. Somebody who has EPDs where he is satisfied with them might be more interested in adding more butt and eye pigment. Somebody on the other hand who is losing sales because of the birth weight EPD of his calves might actually be chasing low birth weight numbers. Somebody who is linebreeding Anxiety the 4ths or Feltons 517 on the other hand may place more emphasis on the pedigree (or not). No one answer will fit every set of cows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 687642, member: 7645"] If I am buying a bull too breed crossbred cows I picked up at the stockyard, it is not really all that difficult to find one that will improve those cows. There are probably a 100++ of them within 60 miles from me. Now for a "breeder" with a very elite set of cows who has been picking matings for multiple generations with certain specific goals (phenotype, EPDs, pedigrees, etc) he is working towards it SHOULD get increasingly more difficult too find a sire that improves that specific set of cows in the multiple ways that the breeder intends. That person may need to get on a plane too find his next herd sire. There is no right answer in this. Somebody who has EPDs where he is satisfied with them might be more interested in adding more butt and eye pigment. Somebody on the other hand who is losing sales because of the birth weight EPD of his calves might actually be chasing low birth weight numbers. Somebody who is linebreeding Anxiety the 4ths or Feltons 517 on the other hand may place more emphasis on the pedigree (or not). No one answer will fit every set of cows. [/QUOTE]
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