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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 239574" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>I think part of it is the EPDs and I LOVE having the EPDs; but if you chase growth numbers really hard.....particularly IF you are adding frame as well then you risk getting calves with a later maturing growth curve. IF you treat those growthy framier calves like you did calves 10 and 20 years ago or worse get them to the feedlot earlier I think it is a safe bet that you are going to decrease the percentage of the calves which grade Choice. I don't think there is an easy answer for this. Obviously you don't want to put big strapping 650 pound framy growthy weaners on grass for six months before they went to the feedlot like you used to do with short toady 450 lb weaners; but a framier calf with a later maturing growth curve is going to be less likely too grade Choice than an older, dinky, earlier maturing kind of calf. I think the decline in quality grade is a direct result of many of the improvements that we have made in the genetics of the cowherd and the only way out of this is too avoid single trait selection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 239574, member: 2095"] I think part of it is the EPDs and I LOVE having the EPDs; but if you chase growth numbers really hard.....particularly IF you are adding frame as well then you risk getting calves with a later maturing growth curve. IF you treat those growthy framier calves like you did calves 10 and 20 years ago or worse get them to the feedlot earlier I think it is a safe bet that you are going to decrease the percentage of the calves which grade Choice. I don't think there is an easy answer for this. Obviously you don't want to put big strapping 650 pound framy growthy weaners on grass for six months before they went to the feedlot like you used to do with short toady 450 lb weaners; but a framier calf with a later maturing growth curve is going to be less likely too grade Choice than an older, dinky, earlier maturing kind of calf. I think the decline in quality grade is a direct result of many of the improvements that we have made in the genetics of the cowherd and the only way out of this is too avoid single trait selection. [/QUOTE]
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