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Weaning Weight EPD

Last Updated: May 21, 2012

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Weaning Weight EPD- Estimate of the weaning weight (lb) potential of a sire's progeny. Positive numbers indicate above-average performance while negative numbers indicate below-average weights compared to other bulls in the same sire summary. This is also an estimate of growth, as maternal effects are removed from the calculations.

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