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What's wrong with chasing numbers?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dylan Biggs" data-source="post: 771155" data-attributes="member: 14282"><p>Most of the pitfalls of chasing numbers have already been pointed out above. Jim makes a good point that is a concern for me also which is that chasing numbers quite often leads down the "more is better road", which begs the question when is more actually enough or too much. Is 85 ww enough or is 95 better, there was a brief time when the HARB Pendelton bull was 100 or more on weaning is that enough. </p><p></p><p>Breeding cattle especially maternal cattle calls for the selection for and evaluation of a very wide array of traits many of which can not be critically evaluated by a number. You can have good numbers but poor feet or poor bags or poor udders or poor disposition or poor fleshing or poor mothering or, poor fertility, or,or etc.</p><p></p><p>If you define "chasing numbers" as assessing quality based on numbers alone that IMHO is a very risky practice. :tiphat:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dylan Biggs, post: 771155, member: 14282"] Most of the pitfalls of chasing numbers have already been pointed out above. Jim makes a good point that is a concern for me also which is that chasing numbers quite often leads down the "more is better road", which begs the question when is more actually enough or too much. Is 85 ww enough or is 95 better, there was a brief time when the HARB Pendelton bull was 100 or more on weaning is that enough. Breeding cattle especially maternal cattle calls for the selection for and evaluation of a very wide array of traits many of which can not be critically evaluated by a number. You can have good numbers but poor feet or poor bags or poor udders or poor disposition or poor fleshing or poor mothering or, poor fertility, or,or etc. If you define "chasing numbers" as assessing quality based on numbers alone that IMHO is a very risky practice. :tiphat: [/QUOTE]
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