CALVING EASE GUIDE

Calving Ease is often related to the birth weight of a bull, and while this is partly true, there are other factors that influence CE. The dam and her management are at least 50% to 60% of the CE. The consistency & consideration of the following will also influence birth weight.

* BW’s of the sire and dam

* BW epd

* CE & Maternal CE epd

* Sires calving inclinations

* Sires physical confirmation

* Nutrition, gestation, environment & latitude

* Breed composition

* Hybrid vigour

We rate each bull in the sale based on our recorded information & personal knowledge of our herd . Each year, one of the more frequent questions is which of bulls will work best on their heifers? Of course, only that person inherently knows their own heifers enough to make that call. We try our best to evaluate each bull in our sale to assist you in your choices, using our guidelines of:

* Cow Bull

** For use on Cows & larger framed Heifers

*** Recommended for Heifers

EPDs listed in this catalogue for the Red Angus cattle are the BOLT EPDs that are current to February 2023. BOLT is the genetic evaluation system that is used by the Red Angus Association of America, & most closely resembles the historical EPDs on Red Angus cattle in Canada. These are the EPDs that these cattle would have in the RAAA herdbook.