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what happened to the calving ease?
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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 721681" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>I would assume these are registered bulls you are buying? I would not take the sellers word for "calving ease". Get the registration number and look it up yourself and see if it makes sense based on the pedigree and other information posted. It can still be manipulated by an unscrupulous breeder but I think that you are more likely to get a truer picture of calving ease, even if it is low accuracy, than an offhand comment by the seller. jmho.</p><p></p><p>Having to pull 5 out 8 (63%) calves and all (100%) of bull calves so far, and assuming no change to your females from last year, does not seem to be a fluke or "EPD accuracy" issue. It seemslike a clear indication of a major bull calving ease issue to me! </p><p></p><p>You should probably be prepared to pull the same percentage of the rest of them, unfortunately. jmho. Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 721681, member: 7509"] I would assume these are registered bulls you are buying? I would not take the sellers word for "calving ease". Get the registration number and look it up yourself and see if it makes sense based on the pedigree and other information posted. It can still be manipulated by an unscrupulous breeder but I think that you are more likely to get a truer picture of calving ease, even if it is low accuracy, than an offhand comment by the seller. jmho. Having to pull 5 out 8 (63%) calves and all (100%) of bull calves so far, and assuming no change to your females from last year, does not seem to be a fluke or "EPD accuracy" issue. It seemslike a clear indication of a major bull calving ease issue to me! You should probably be prepared to pull the same percentage of the rest of them, unfortunately. jmho. Jim [/QUOTE]
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