aj
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Has something changed with the Red Angus epds? Seemed like several ai bulls used to run like 70 on yearling epds and now they are like plus 90. Didn't they do an across breed epd with the Simmental? Did that change things?
Red Angus epds
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Red Cow Relocators
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Yes, we are now running EPD's head to head with the simmentals so the base line has changed. Percentage rankings within the breed has stayed the same but the actual numbers have changed. RCR
trevorgreycattleco
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Out of curiosity why is there a need to compare a maternal English breeds epds and a terminal continental breed?
cowman 52
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Red Cow Relocators said:
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aj
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I may disagree a bit with trev on the "terminal" part. The Simmentals were the first exotic breed that was really good maternally......unless it was to much milk........this was before the simmis started looking like angus......back when they were red and yellow.
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cowman 52 said:
Collectively speaking, we, meaning anyone who currently has Red Angus cows registered with the American Red Angus Assn.
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trevorgreycattleco said:
The theory is to eventually have an EPD system in place that will be universal for all breeds. RCR
aj
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Could the Shorthrns get in on this deal?
BF,
SOMETHING happened, with respect to MCE - there was a Simmental sire that we'd been using for several years whose MCE value went from above 10 to -0.4 when the 'new' epds came out; he already had good accuracy, so I can't imagine that all of a sudden a bunch of daughters had hard calvings and crashed his MCE numbers. But, I guess it could happen.
SOMETHING happened, with respect to MCE - there was a Simmental sire that we'd been using for several years whose MCE value went from above 10 to -0.4 when the 'new' epds came out; he already had good accuracy, so I can't imagine that all of a sudden a bunch of daughters had hard calvings and crashed his MCE numbers. But, I guess it could happen.
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trevorgreycattleco said:
I love your thinking here but I'd like to see an index where cattle of all breeds are compared. You could then tell by how much of characteristic A you would have to sacrifice in order to get more of characteristic B.
To me, purebred simmental look just like angus When you take the form of a british breed, my thinking is that you acquire their strengths as well.
