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CED BW WW YW Milk TM ME HPG CEM Stay Marb REA Fat
Breed Average for Non Parents Under 2 Yrs. of Age 4 -1.0 56 83 20 48 2 10 4 11 0.42 0.11 0.00
Breed Average for Sires
5 -1.3 55 83 20 47 3 10 5 10 0.44 0.09 0.01
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Calving Ease Direct (CED):
Predicts the probability of calves being born unassisted from two year-old heifers. Selecting on actual birth weight is
flawed; it is influenced by non-genetic factors such as nutrition and weather. While the BW EPD removes these non-genetic factors, the CED EPD is the
best predictor of calving ease. CED includes variation in BW plus other influential genetic factors such as gestation length, calf shape, etc. The higher the
CED EPD, the less calving difficulty.
Heifer Pregnancy (HPG):
Predicts the probability of heifers conceiving to calve at two years of age.
Calving Ease Maternal (CEM):
Predicts the probability of a given animal’s daughters calving unassisted at two years of age.
Stayability (STAY):
Predicts the probability of a bull’s daughters remaining in the herd until at least six years of age. Females that don’t stay in the
herd that long are losing money, and they also contribute to higher rate of replacement females that the rancher can’t cash crop.
Maintenance Energy (ME):
Predicts the differences in maintenance energy requirements of mature daughters of a bull. The lower the ME EPD, the
less feed daughters require to maintain body condition.
Birth Weight (BW):
Predicts the difference, in pounds, for birth weight, and is also used in the calculation of the CED EPD.
Weaning Weight (WW):
Predicts the difference, in pounds, for weaning weight (adjusted to age of dam and a standard 205 days of age). This is an
indicator of growth from birth to weaning.
yearling weight (YW):
Predicts the expected difference, in pounds, for yearling weight (adjusted to 365 days of age). This is an indicator of growth
from birth to yearling.
Milk:
Predicts the difference in maternal production of an individual animal’s daughters as expressed by the weaning weight of their calves.
Total Maternal (tm):
Predicts the rancher’s actual observation of weaning weights of calves raised by an animal’s daughters. TM includes the
daughters milk EPD plus half of her genetic contribution to her calf’s weaning weight EPD.
What does it mean? Understanding EPD’s as a selection tool.
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