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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 600052" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>Yes those other sires DO have better carcass EPDs than EXT; but unless you retain ownership and sell on a grid or market seedstock to people who do the bottom line isn't there. The rest of us live and die on the cost side and weaning weight. I also don't put much weight to the actual dollar amounts with the $EN number. It certainly cost more money to keep a cow this year than it did two years ago or in the year the research was done those dollar values were calculated. While not a perfect number It is more a measure of which bull's daughters are more likely to stay in the herd in real world conditions. Certainly some folks don't consider it at all when they plan their matings. All I am pointing out is that that is an EXT positive, whether we breed "by the numbers" or go out and look at the quality easy keeping EXT daughters out there in the real world. I don't know about you but I am getting Angus emails every third day from people claiming their cattle have no 1680 in the pedigree. I don't know how long this is going to continue; but if I were going to buy semen today I would probably stay completely away from those pedigrees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 600052, member: 7645"] Yes those other sires DO have better carcass EPDs than EXT; but unless you retain ownership and sell on a grid or market seedstock to people who do the bottom line isn't there. The rest of us live and die on the cost side and weaning weight. I also don't put much weight to the actual dollar amounts with the $EN number. It certainly cost more money to keep a cow this year than it did two years ago or in the year the research was done those dollar values were calculated. While not a perfect number It is more a measure of which bull's daughters are more likely to stay in the herd in real world conditions. Certainly some folks don't consider it at all when they plan their matings. All I am pointing out is that that is an EXT positive, whether we breed "by the numbers" or go out and look at the quality easy keeping EXT daughters out there in the real world. I don't know about you but I am getting Angus emails every third day from people claiming their cattle have no 1680 in the pedigree. I don't know how long this is going to continue; but if I were going to buy semen today I would probably stay completely away from those pedigrees. [/QUOTE]
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