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<blockquote data-quote="Backbone Ranch" data-source="post: 1543711" data-attributes="member: 20754"><p>I really appreciate the input on these calves. We are very happy with them, but are still looking for ways to improve upon them, whether that be phenotypically or carcass traits. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Glad to hear from you Waihou! How are things in New Zealand? And to answer your question, we do not currently have EPDs with the American Murray Grey Association. The database is currently so small that there is very little accuracy in them. We have had some people ask about the EPDs in the past, but they have been just as happy to see the actual birth weights and weaning weights. Normally, it is the bull calves that are 80 plus pounds at birth that weigh the most at weaning, but this bull was at the top with a lower birth weight. His dam will be 9 years old this coming spring and is bred back to Tony, but we will be AIing her to Ballee Thumbs Up again this summer. </p><p></p><p></p><p>That dark Tony daughter is also one of my favorites. She was one of the last calves born, but she had the highest average daily gain of any calf this year. Her full brother is currently working in a large commercial herd and we have one of her full sisters in production currently. This is the mother of the dark heifer with her 2017 bull calf (full brother to the dark heifer). The cow is 8 years old there and her calf was 3 1/2 months old. She has raised a replacement quality calf every year since she was a first calf heifer.</p><p><img src="https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/1/b04ca4a7-f679-48b8-989c-956a7e1bf81d-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Backbone Ranch, post: 1543711, member: 20754"] I really appreciate the input on these calves. We are very happy with them, but are still looking for ways to improve upon them, whether that be phenotypically or carcass traits. Glad to hear from you Waihou! How are things in New Zealand? And to answer your question, we do not currently have EPDs with the American Murray Grey Association. The database is currently so small that there is very little accuracy in them. We have had some people ask about the EPDs in the past, but they have been just as happy to see the actual birth weights and weaning weights. Normally, it is the bull calves that are 80 plus pounds at birth that weigh the most at weaning, but this bull was at the top with a lower birth weight. His dam will be 9 years old this coming spring and is bred back to Tony, but we will be AIing her to Ballee Thumbs Up again this summer. That dark Tony daughter is also one of my favorites. She was one of the last calves born, but she had the highest average daily gain of any calf this year. Her full brother is currently working in a large commercial herd and we have one of her full sisters in production currently. This is the mother of the dark heifer with her 2017 bull calf (full brother to the dark heifer). The cow is 8 years old there and her calf was 3 1/2 months old. She has raised a replacement quality calf every year since she was a first calf heifer. [img]https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/q493/Backboneranch/1/b04ca4a7-f679-48b8-989c-956a7e1bf81d-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds[/img] [/QUOTE]
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