Using EBV Percentiles –––

Making It Easier To Pick The Right Bull

Selecting the right bull for your business needs to be as easy as possible. So we’ve incorporated percentiles into our catalogue as an extra tool to help you.

A percentile value allows you to see where an animal sits in the breed for each trait. This gives you more information than an EBV figure alone. Eg. If an animal sits in the 30th Percentile for 600D it means he’s in the Top 30% of the breed. Generally, the lower the percentile figure the better, except in the case of Mature Cow Weight where being the biggest isn’t always the best.

The 600D of this bull sits in the 30th Percentile, meaning he’s in the top 30% of the breed for this trait.

The IMF of this bull sits in the fifth Percentile, meaning he’s in the top 5% of the breed for this trait.