+5
+.5
+67
+117
+1.27
.37
.43
.32
.32
.40 +18
+71.51
+165.40
+18.3 +6
+33
CED
BW WW YW SC DOC HP CEM MILK $W $B
CW
MARB
RE
FAT
+55
+.74
+.98
+.012
SydGen Black Pearl 6073
Birth Date: 1-6-2016
Bull 18518408
Tattoo: 6073
✭
✭
The Number 4 $B bull calf in the offering today, also carrying top 2% rankings for
WW, YW, Milk, $W and $F.
✭
✭
Dam came to us from Van Nice Angus Ranch, Hanna, OK and has compiled a
strong progeny record.
✭
✭
Maternal brother, SydGen Clockwork 3393, brought $11,500 in our 2014 sale to
Graupman Angus, Palmyra, MO.
✭
✭
Another maternal brother in our 2015 sale brought $7,500 to Rolling 7 Ranch Co.,
Broken Bow, NE.
✭
✭
Selling half interest and full possession.
SydGen Trust 6228
SCR Promise 4042
SydGen Black Pearl 2006
+SydGen Forever Lady 4413
+17236055
SydGen Anita 8611
#Connealy Forward
#+Three Trees Anita 5133
#SydGen CC&7
#+SAF Connection
VNAR Pride 0100
SydGen Forever Lady 4087
+16711118
+VNAR Pride 6040
#Mytty In Focus
[RDF]
Limestone Pride P559
13
4-108
4-111
3-108
3-114
3-103
3-95
3-109
BWR
WWR
YWR
IMF
UREA
RBFT
RPFT
Dam
Progeny
Record
BW RATIO WW RATIO SALE DAY WT
ADG
PROJ YW FRAME
95
806
109
119
+6
+.8
+60
+106
+1.78
.38
.43
.32
.32
.40 +19
+60.76
+153.23
+16.9 +10 +28
CED
BW WW YW SC DOC HP CEM MILK $W $B
CW
MARB
RE
FAT
+45
+.18
+.83
-.054
SydGen FATE 6023
Birth Date: 12-30-2015
Bull 18518396
Tattoo: 6023
✭
✭
Very well-balanced EPD profile. Records +.33 RADG, tied with Lot 24 for second
best of the January bull calf division.
✭
✭
Maternal brothers have sold for $5,500 to Laboube Farms, Hermann, MO and
John Ferguson, Liberty, MO.
✭
✭
Great-grandam is still producing, and has 11 progeny scanned at 117 ratio for IMF
and 103 for REA.
✭
✭
Selling half interest and full possession.
SydGen Trust 6228
SCR Promise 4042
SydGen FATE 2800
+SydGen Forever Lady 4413
+17521423
+SydGen Heroine 9808
#SydGen Contact
#DAAR Heroine LT 108
+SydGen Journey 7655
SydGen Journey 4355
SydGen Eulima 0490
+SydGen Royal Queen 3043
16807136
+SydGen Eulima 8903
#+SAF Connection
BPAR Miss Midland K23
15
3-100
3-110
2-107
2-91
2-92
2-98
2-97
BWR
WWR
YWR
IMF
UREA
RBFT
RPFT
Dam
Progeny
Record
BW RATIO WW RATIO SALE DAY WT
ADG
PROJ YW FRAME
87
800
100
118
+12
-.4
+59
+104
+1.15
.37
.44
.33
.33
.39 +10
+59.49
+155.29
+15.2 +11 +29
CED
BW WW YW SC DOC HP CEM MILK $W $B
CW
MARB
RE
FAT
+51
+.78
+.78
+.025
SydGen Black Pearl 6013
[OSF]
Birth Date: 12-28-2015
Bull 18518392
Tattoo: 6013
✭
✭
Ranks in the top 15% or better for 8 of the breeding values listed, punctuated by a
top 3% ranking for $B.
✭
✭
Three maternal sisters are retained, and two are working for Dillon Farms, Prairie
Home, MO and Tom Wilson, Urich, MO.
✭
✭
Maternal brother sold to Ron Inman, Salem, MO.
✭
✭
Selling half interest and full possession.
SydGen Trust 6228
SCR Promise 4042
SydGen Black Pearl 2006
+SydGen Forever Lady 4413
+17236055
SydGen Anita 8611
#Connealy Forward
#+Three Trees Anita 5133
TK Big Bend R35
#Bon View New Design 878
SydGen Blackbird 8354
TK Highness Eileen N20
#16062303
+SydGen Blackbird 3202
#Twin Valley Precision E161
[RDF]
SAF Blackbird 6028
14
5-100
5-107
3-110
5-104
5-110
5-96
5-106
BWR
WWR
YWR
IMF
UREA
RBFT
RPFT
Dam
Progeny
Record
BW RATIO WW RATIO SALE DAY WT
ADG
PROJ YW FRAME
79
686
91
101
+13
-1.2
+63
+112
+2.22
.37
.44
.33
.32
.40 +27
+70.98
+162.18
+19.9 +13 +28
CED
BW WW YW SC DOC HP CEM MILK $W $B
CW
MARB
RE
FAT
+56
+.60
+.91
-.030
SydGen FATE 6007
Birth Date: 12-26-2015
Bull 18518390
Tattoo: 6007
✭
✭
Multi-trait superiority at its finest, with 14 of the Values listed in the top 15% or
better, capped by top 2% rankings on both the maternal and terminal indexes.
✭
✭
Got pretty cold when he was young and has a messed up ear because of it, but
your heifers won’t mind a bit.
✭
✭
Three-quarter brother by Black Pearl brought $6,900 in the 2015 Spring SydGen
Influence Sale to Cole Cattle Co., Bastrop, TX.
✭
✭
Grandam served as a donor here, with over $60,000 in progeny sales including a
$14,000 bred heifer to Express Ranches, Yukon, OK in our 2011 offering.
✭
✭
Same cow family produced Exceed and the Lot 1 heifer selling today.
✭
✭
Selling half interest and full possession.
SydGen Trust 6228
SCR Promise 4042
SydGen FATE 2800
+SydGen Forever Lady 4413
+17521423
+SydGen Heroine 9808
#SydGen Contact
#DAAR Heroine LT 108
#SydGen Mandate 6079
#SS Objective T510 0T26
SydGen Forever Lady 2005
SydGen Gina 4235
+17212183
+SydGen Forever Lady 7448
#ALC Nobleman N01N
+SydGen Forever Lady 4242
16
3-96
3-100
2-101
2-123
2-106
2-91
2-96
BWR
WWR
YWR
IMF
UREA
RBFT
RPFT
Dam
Progeny
Record
BW RATIO WW RATIO SALE DAY WT
ADG
PROJ YW FRAME
76
719
89
106
SydGen FATE 6028
Birth Date: 12-31-2015
Bull 18518397
Tattoo: 6028
✭
✭
Another FATE calf with a very respectable EPD profile for every measurable trait.
✭
✭
Grandam weaned 6@103, then sold to Darrah Land & Livestock LLC, Mountain
Grove, MO in our 2015 sale.
SydGen Trust 6228
SCR Promise 4042
SydGen FATE 2800
+SydGen Forever Lady 4413
+17521423
+SydGen Heroine 9808
#SydGen Contact
#DAAR Heroine LT 108
SydGen Aim 0001
#+SydGen 928 Destination 5420
SydGen Elba 3126
SydGen Blackbird Lady 1059
17501148
#SydGen Elba 8124
#SydGen CC&7
SAF Elba 9167
17
+8
-.4
+52
+97
+1.24
.38
.43
.32
.32
.39 +24
+58.68
+147.34
+23.0 +10 +31
CED
BW WW YW SC DOC HP CEM MILK $W $B
CW
MARB
RE
FAT
+47
+.73
+.61
-.028
BW RATIO WW RATIO SALE DAY WT
ADG
PROJ YW FRAME
84
705
100
104
LOT 13 - SYDGEN BLACK PEARL 6073
LOT 15 - SYDGEN FATE 6023
Which number should one consider strongest when purchasing a bull to use on virgin heifers?
This question comes up often in discussions. If you talk to a geneticist, CED is always the an-
swer, because calving ease is what you are looking for, and that is the actual trait reflected by a
CED EPD. Birth Weight (BW) is an indicator trait, but not the actual trait of economic importance.
However, one thing we think about pretty often is the fact that a lot more data affects the BW
EPD than the CED EPD. First of all, CED EPD is based only on pulls and unassisted births out of
first calf heifers. No data from second-calvers and older is counted at all. Secondly, if all the
calves are born unassisted, it does not affect the CED of any of the sires, other than the influence
of the birthweights on the BW EPD, which would have some correlated effect on CED EPD. That
would mean most of the data from small herds would count very little, since the odds of pulling
a calf on a small number of heifers is very small. Also, no pulls on ET calves are counted. In the
big scheme of things, the number of pulls turned in is a pretty small number, and it seems to us
that it could skew the CED EPD pretty strongly in either direction in a good luck/bad luck scenario.
Birth weights, on the other hand, are generally turned in, and processed, on a very high
percentage of calves turned in on AHIR. Sire summary supplemental information shows over 5
times as many birthweights reported as there are calving ease scores.
Currently, the genomic scores are having a major effect on moving the CED scores strongly in
both directions, perhaps because so little hard data is backing them. Yet the AAA refuses to allow
large commercial herd data into our database. That data, especially from herds
using at least two AI sires on virgin heifers, could make our CED EPDs much more
meaningful.
CED vs BW
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