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Nebraska | If I know how much a beef cow milks, she isn't very good. She either came in the chute at calving or has a dead or dinky calf by bull turnout. It's just pass/fail. Calf thrives on milk until it can digest something else or not. Only dairy cows get milk measured, weaning weight is how beef cows get measured. So, while I fully understand how epd's work, the milk epd seems to be one without relevant data collection. Unless there's something I've missed, I don't know how you can accurately assess weaned pounds to milk or grass or creep(I do know they try), they all are used for growth and are substitutionary feedstuffs, unless you have a large sample size that is weaned at about 90 days of age or earlier. Most aren't that early. Feel free to argue but I think milking ability in beef cows is like eye pigment and pinkeye-it gets a whole lot more discussion than it has actual relevance. | |
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