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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 549631" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>Total balance in the animal of all traits is the key. However, what you see is not always what you get (or it will reproduce).</p><p></p><p>"Statistics don't lie, but Statisticians do..." lol. EPD's are statistical things.</p><p></p><p>One of the best ways, IMO, to evaluate a possible purchase of an animal is to "walk among them" in their natural setting, look and observe its sire and dam, the sire & dam's offspring, as well as 2 to 5 generations back to look at mating strategies, offspring, etc. One can NOT accomplish this by buying Sale Barn cattle (what you see is what you get; looks can be very deceiving; and, looks may not be what you get).</p><p></p><p>Even then, with all the "ducks in a row", one can be lucky or not lucky. Recessive negative traits can pop up on any animal...this is why the word "cull" was invented...</p><p></p><p>To purchase an animal solely on EPD's and a photo of the animal (and perhaps seeing it "walk around the ring") only gives one "part of the story".</p><p></p><p>JMHO...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 549631, member: 9"] Total balance in the animal of all traits is the key. However, what you see is not always what you get (or it will reproduce). "Statistics don't lie, but Statisticians do..." lol. EPD's are statistical things. One of the best ways, IMO, to evaluate a possible purchase of an animal is to "walk among them" in their natural setting, look and observe its sire and dam, the sire & dam's offspring, as well as 2 to 5 generations back to look at mating strategies, offspring, etc. One can NOT accomplish this by buying Sale Barn cattle (what you see is what you get; looks can be very deceiving; and, looks may not be what you get). Even then, with all the "ducks in a row", one can be lucky or not lucky. Recessive negative traits can pop up on any animal...this is why the word "cull" was invented... To purchase an animal solely on EPD's and a photo of the animal (and perhaps seeing it "walk around the ring") only gives one "part of the story". JMHO... [/QUOTE]
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