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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 268314" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>Obviously, any bull that you purchase should "look good". Reading the EPDs helps you to improve your herd in economically important traits.</p><p></p><p>The weaning wt. EPD helps you to pick the bull which will sire the bigger wt feeder calves. The birth wt EPD helps you select the bull that SHOULD have a higher percentage of calves born alive. IF you sell yearlings, the Yearling wt. EPD helps you select the bull who will sire the heavier stockers. The milk EPD hlps you to select the bull with better milking daughters. The scrotal circumference EPD is linked to daughter's fertility. The carcass EPDs help somebody who is selling their cattle on the rail. </p><p></p><p>Now for a herd to really tell whether a bull they have purchased is doing all that for them or not they need to know who sired which calf; which in a 200 cow herd would mean dividing the herd into ~6 breeding pastures (or aiing). Then they would need good record keeping. None of this is that difficult.</p><p></p><p>Obviously when talking with order buyers, ANY information is better than no information and the more information about your cows the better; but the idea that I would crunch EPDs for my commercial herd really seems far fetched. I am sure that there is some software cattle records company (kinda like PigChamp) that will crunch some sort of in herd EBVs and may even let you see where you rank versus their other customers. This shouldn't be too difficult</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 268314, member: 2095"] Obviously, any bull that you purchase should "look good". Reading the EPDs helps you to improve your herd in economically important traits. The weaning wt. EPD helps you to pick the bull which will sire the bigger wt feeder calves. The birth wt EPD helps you select the bull that SHOULD have a higher percentage of calves born alive. IF you sell yearlings, the Yearling wt. EPD helps you select the bull who will sire the heavier stockers. The milk EPD hlps you to select the bull with better milking daughters. The scrotal circumference EPD is linked to daughter's fertility. The carcass EPDs help somebody who is selling their cattle on the rail. Now for a herd to really tell whether a bull they have purchased is doing all that for them or not they need to know who sired which calf; which in a 200 cow herd would mean dividing the herd into ~6 breeding pastures (or aiing). Then they would need good record keeping. None of this is that difficult. Obviously when talking with order buyers, ANY information is better than no information and the more information about your cows the better; but the idea that I would crunch EPDs for my commercial herd really seems far fetched. I am sure that there is some software cattle records company (kinda like PigChamp) that will crunch some sort of in herd EBVs and may even let you see where you rank versus their other customers. This shouldn't be too difficult [/QUOTE]
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