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Since it's the season of bull sales I figured this was a timely topic. :D

What i like to buy is bulls with "Moderate" in my opinion birth wt.

I have noticed so many bulls that have a birth wt in the 70 to 80 lb ranges with EPD numbers from .1 to 1.5 have some ancestors maybe not to far back with +5 ect.for a BW EPD.
When the bull I had picked out didn't maje a sale last week I checked out the rest of the bulls. Found a good looking calf ,it's mother was a double bred Sitz Alliance 6595. The sire was a early Sunset Freedom son. He was a 70 lb BW with a BW EPD at+0.2. looks pretty good until I looked across the page and 3 half brothers had BW's of 90,106 and102 Bwt's with EPD of +4.9,+6.8,+6.4.
How much of that would have shown up in the offspring of the light birth wt bull?
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