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<blockquote data-quote="cypressfarms" data-source="post: 143325" data-attributes="member: 2653"><p>Rosie, the easiest way to understand birth weight EPD's are that the number is a comparison to the breed average. For example, if you bought a angus bull with a BW EPD of 2.0, he would likely (this is not an exact certainty) produce calves that weighed 2 pounds heavier than the average angus bull. Sorry to disagree Scotty, but I wouldn't put an angus bull with GREATER than 2 BW on heifers. Maybe you meant less than??? </p><p></p><p>Anyway Rosie, for heifers, you normally want a low birth weight bull, so the heifers don't have calving difficulty. </p><p></p><p>If you want a bull to produce replacement heifers, then milk EPD's become more important; the milk epd expresses how many pounds of calf, at weaning age, will the bull's daughter have in comparison to the breed. </p><p></p><p>WW and YW are pretty straightforward.</p><p></p><p>BUT MSSCAMP is right; epd's are only part. Look at my post of a bull that I bought (a.k.a hatchet butt - brangus); his epd's are great, but his butt is not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cypressfarms, post: 143325, member: 2653"] Rosie, the easiest way to understand birth weight EPD's are that the number is a comparison to the breed average. For example, if you bought a angus bull with a BW EPD of 2.0, he would likely (this is not an exact certainty) produce calves that weighed 2 pounds heavier than the average angus bull. Sorry to disagree Scotty, but I wouldn't put an angus bull with GREATER than 2 BW on heifers. Maybe you meant less than??? Anyway Rosie, for heifers, you normally want a low birth weight bull, so the heifers don't have calving difficulty. If you want a bull to produce replacement heifers, then milk EPD's become more important; the milk epd expresses how many pounds of calf, at weaning age, will the bull's daughter have in comparison to the breed. WW and YW are pretty straightforward. BUT MSSCAMP is right; epd's are only part. Look at my post of a bull that I bought (a.k.a hatchet butt - brangus); his epd's are great, but his butt is not. [/QUOTE]
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