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<blockquote data-quote="AllForage" data-source="post: 867753" data-attributes="member: 14878"><p>I will have to respectfully disagree in your order of importance. First, Nesikep needs to have an ideal animal in his head that he is selecting towards (after some pm's in the past, I do not know if he has one yet). Then begin to select visually towards that ideal while considering his important traits to him. While taking in animal size, form, and performance in the real world he could consider epd's if they matter to him. We just had another fellow here on a thread mention how a bull looked "Great" on paper through epd's, but he did not turn out. Breeding by numbers and statistics don't mean a hill of beans if they are not trending towards your ideal or if they do not perform. If an animals gives him grief then he should ship it if that is important to him. Bad attitude is one single trait to select against.</p><p></p><p>I will not argue if some folks take advice or not, but you must have an ideal and market goal. If form follows function then get a pic of 5 bulls with identical epd's. Tell me if they are all cookie cutters of each other. </p><p></p><p>Bring the height of your animals down a touch and some of those things will fix themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AllForage, post: 867753, member: 14878"] I will have to respectfully disagree in your order of importance. First, Nesikep needs to have an ideal animal in his head that he is selecting towards (after some pm's in the past, I do not know if he has one yet). Then begin to select visually towards that ideal while considering his important traits to him. While taking in animal size, form, and performance in the real world he could consider epd's if they matter to him. We just had another fellow here on a thread mention how a bull looked "Great" on paper through epd's, but he did not turn out. Breeding by numbers and statistics don't mean a hill of beans if they are not trending towards your ideal or if they do not perform. If an animals gives him grief then he should ship it if that is important to him. Bad attitude is one single trait to select against. I will not argue if some folks take advice or not, but you must have an ideal and market goal. If form follows function then get a pic of 5 bulls with identical epd's. Tell me if they are all cookie cutters of each other. Bring the height of your animals down a touch and some of those things will fix themselves. [/QUOTE]
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