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How a Modern Operation Uses the Numbers
You are standing at the pen with the sale book open. The bull’s page is in front of you: his EPDs down one column, his dollar indexes down another, an accuracy beside each one. You…
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Planning Matings to Manage Inbreeding: Using a COI Before the Calf Is Born
You have a bull picked out and a cow in mind. You pull both pedigrees and a name shows up on each side, a few generations back. Same good sire, once through the bull’s line…
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Figuring a Mating on Paper
You have a bull picked out and a cow in mind. Before you ever turn them out together, you want to know what the calf will be, on paper. Not the color, not the look.…
