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what happened to the calving ease?
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<blockquote data-quote="novaman" data-source="post: 721664" data-attributes="member: 2744"><p>I just wanted to point out that you can have higher birth weights and still have calving ease. The EPD's are nice but as was said they aren't proven. We have always had good luck looking at the head, shoulders, etc. of the bull in order to guess at his calving ease. I've seen a lot of bulls that are called easy calving and have a huge head and big shoulders. As far as you managing your heifers the same every year, I've found that there can be no changes (that you are aware of) but there are always variables you don't see or can't manage that seem to come into play all the time. By the way, when you say you have to pull do you mean using a puller or just putting a strap on and assisting by hand?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novaman, post: 721664, member: 2744"] I just wanted to point out that you can have higher birth weights and still have calving ease. The EPD's are nice but as was said they aren't proven. We have always had good luck looking at the head, shoulders, etc. of the bull in order to guess at his calving ease. I've seen a lot of bulls that are called easy calving and have a huge head and big shoulders. As far as you managing your heifers the same every year, I've found that there can be no changes (that you are aware of) but there are always variables you don't see or can't manage that seem to come into play all the time. By the way, when you say you have to pull do you mean using a puller or just putting a strap on and assisting by hand? [/QUOTE]
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