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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1594591" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Do you want the EPD's to help you decide which animals to keep? Do you want them for sales of bulls for your buyers? </p><p>and/or to help decide which bulls would be calving ease? growth numbers? </p><p>I am "old school" (very OLD). I use phenotype (my eyes, other's eyes) more than I use estimated numbers. I weigh everything - birth, 5 months, 6 months, 8 months; yearly & mature at least twice a year.</p><p>I use EPD's on bulls AFTER I have decided which bulls I want. Then I match the bull to my cows (phenotype & genotype).</p><p>I don't fully understand how helpful commercial EPD's will be, so I'm not a good one to give advice on this.</p><p>I wish more commercial people would jump in on this. Starting the title with Simmental, probably turned off all the "Angus" commercial guys. LOL Maybe have better luck just posting something like - "Commercial EPD's - helpful or not??"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1594591, member: 968"] Do you want the EPD's to help you decide which animals to keep? Do you want them for sales of bulls for your buyers? and/or to help decide which bulls would be calving ease? growth numbers? I am "old school" (very OLD). I use phenotype (my eyes, other's eyes) more than I use estimated numbers. I weigh everything - birth, 5 months, 6 months, 8 months; yearly & mature at least twice a year. I use EPD's on bulls AFTER I have decided which bulls I want. Then I match the bull to my cows (phenotype & genotype). I don't fully understand how helpful commercial EPD's will be, so I'm not a good one to give advice on this. I wish more commercial people would jump in on this. Starting the title with Simmental, probably turned off all the "Angus" commercial guys. LOL Maybe have better luck just posting something like - "Commercial EPD's - helpful or not??" [/QUOTE]
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