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<blockquote data-quote="AudieWyoming" data-source="post: 746244" data-attributes="member: 13669"><p>I think you guys are dead on with the back fat issue. I built my angus cow herd as performance cows trying to hold the marbling together while building ribeye area. I knew the packers wanted less backfat but I never selected for or against it thinking that if I got the other things I wanted including maternal, the back fat would average out and if it trended lower for the packers and didn't hurt me, great.</p><p></p><p>What I have found out is even though some of the bulls I used were positive for backfat many were very negative, and the breed as a whole is dragging me towards thin rhined, high milk EPD cows. Even as I believe the 16 - 23 milk EPD cow today is the same Milk as the 10-13 EPD cow 20 years ago and the frames are going down, I find I am going to have to <strong><u>select for back cover</u></strong> to hold the cow together. @</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AudieWyoming, post: 746244, member: 13669"] I think you guys are dead on with the back fat issue. I built my angus cow herd as performance cows trying to hold the marbling together while building ribeye area. I knew the packers wanted less backfat but I never selected for or against it thinking that if I got the other things I wanted including maternal, the back fat would average out and if it trended lower for the packers and didn't hurt me, great. What I have found out is even though some of the bulls I used were positive for backfat many were very negative, and the breed as a whole is dragging me towards thin rhined, high milk EPD cows. Even as I believe the 16 - 23 milk EPD cow today is the same Milk as the 10-13 EPD cow 20 years ago and the frames are going down, I find I am going to have to [b][u]select for back cover[/u][/b] to hold the cow together. @ [/QUOTE]
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