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What does 2/3 interest and full possession mean?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1382971" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>It means that EPDs are averages of the calf crop and that the seller has no idea which calf might be the best. So they keeps semen rights on all of them in case one turns out to be an outlier on the right side of the bell curve. It is a problem when main source herds of foundation stock do not always use proven sires, know the transmitted function from their cows and this is generally combined with a very low and insignificant % inbreeding coefficient so that the genetics have no relative stability.</p><p></p><p>I do not understand the mentality: is it "new is better, always", "the grass is greener on the other side of the semen catalog" or do they just flat out know that their own cattle are lacking? It is easier to breed your own and stick to outside sires that are proven. But the issue is not livestock breeding but purely the fickleness of human nature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1382971, member: 24565"] It means that EPDs are averages of the calf crop and that the seller has no idea which calf might be the best. So they keeps semen rights on all of them in case one turns out to be an outlier on the right side of the bell curve. It is a problem when main source herds of foundation stock do not always use proven sires, know the transmitted function from their cows and this is generally combined with a very low and insignificant % inbreeding coefficient so that the genetics have no relative stability. I do not understand the mentality: is it "new is better, always", "the grass is greener on the other side of the semen catalog" or do they just flat out know that their own cattle are lacking? It is easier to breed your own and stick to outside sires that are proven. But the issue is not livestock breeding but purely the fickleness of human nature. [/QUOTE]
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