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<blockquote data-quote="redcowsrule33" data-source="post: 1071878" data-attributes="member: 8629"><p>With the disclaimer that I know little about limousins.... I liked him better before you posted those numbers.</p><p></p><p>While it appears your girls can handle a harder calving bull, and his weaning weight number is at least average, he may get you some good terminal calves, but he is by the numbers not a maternal bull, and tho they are low accuracy his dam and sire are just as poor. What concerns me the most is the CEM on both sides of the pedigree. Your cows might make up for the milk. Dam is a pretty nice little cow though.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Checked out their website, they seem to have a program that fits your needs (docililty, calving ease) and though the numbers fail to bear out the calving ease part, they have been using herd bulls only for many generations, which depending on their herd size and how much info they report, will affect the EPD accuracy. That being said I would still not use him on my heifers the first year and pelvic score his heifers. I hope he pans out and proves his EPDs wrong in five years!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redcowsrule33, post: 1071878, member: 8629"] With the disclaimer that I know little about limousins.... I liked him better before you posted those numbers. While it appears your girls can handle a harder calving bull, and his weaning weight number is at least average, he may get you some good terminal calves, but he is by the numbers not a maternal bull, and tho they are low accuracy his dam and sire are just as poor. What concerns me the most is the CEM on both sides of the pedigree. Your cows might make up for the milk. Dam is a pretty nice little cow though. Edit: Checked out their website, they seem to have a program that fits your needs (docililty, calving ease) and though the numbers fail to bear out the calving ease part, they have been using herd bulls only for many generations, which depending on their herd size and how much info they report, will affect the EPD accuracy. That being said I would still not use him on my heifers the first year and pelvic score his heifers. I hope he pans out and proves his EPDs wrong in five years! [/QUOTE]
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