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<blockquote data-quote="Alan" data-source="post: 771021" data-attributes="member: 378"><p>If you use EPD's with some amount of thought and intelligence do you feel there is a problem with chasing EPD's? My thoughts on doing it with intelligence is first be as sure as you can the bull is going to help in the desired phenotype you're after including frame size. Don't go after bulls with a low acc or hope a young bull of the moment is going to do what you want to do.</p><p></p><p>As an obvious type of an example; if I had a cow I wanted to get her calves BW down but maintain a good REA and IMF in I would chase a bull like 242, 60 and 70 acc in the two carcass EPD's and a -0.1 BW with a .93 acc. But 3027 (I know horns, but I have changed my thoughts on using horned bulls on polled cows with little horns in the back ground) I would put Rib Eye, Harland and Progress in there also.</p><p></p><p>So what's wrong with casing numbers?</p><p></p><p>This post is more a question than a statement. The boards have seemed a bit slow lately.</p><p></p><p>The lurker.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan, post: 771021, member: 378"] If you use EPD's with some amount of thought and intelligence do you feel there is a problem with chasing EPD's? My thoughts on doing it with intelligence is first be as sure as you can the bull is going to help in the desired phenotype you're after including frame size. Don't go after bulls with a low acc or hope a young bull of the moment is going to do what you want to do. As an obvious type of an example; if I had a cow I wanted to get her calves BW down but maintain a good REA and IMF in I would chase a bull like 242, 60 and 70 acc in the two carcass EPD's and a -0.1 BW with a .93 acc. But 3027 (I know horns, but I have changed my thoughts on using horned bulls on polled cows with little horns in the back ground) I would put Rib Eye, Harland and Progress in there also. So what's wrong with casing numbers? This post is more a question than a statement. The boards have seemed a bit slow lately. The lurker. [/QUOTE]
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