Information Explained
Genetic Condition
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SHCC MASTERCRAFT 889L16
Lot Number
Genomically Enhanced
R10587164
Polled REG FREE 10/28/2023
BWCC CENTER SECTION 7F7
HP Stay BB NC Term 10.74 2.73 0.51 0.11 4.45 2% 25% 40% 55% 3% Elite Herd Sire • Actual Birth Weight: 88 lbs. • Adjusted Yearling Scrotal: 39.5 cm. • World renowned sire • One of Big Lake’s finest daughters
Date of Birth
Recording Number
MC SHO BOAT 313H18
RBM MS SPECIAL FORCES 313A BWCC BIG LAKE 111F4
Prefix
Polled Status
SHCC MS BIG LAKE 889H10
BWCC MS NUFF SAID 889Z24 from... Saddle Hill Cattle Company
Fertility Indicators/ Terminal Index
CED BW WW YW Milk TM
SC REA IMF
September 2025 EPDs
7.9
0.2
46
84
6
29
1.2
0.74 0.29
National EPD Percentile Rank
20% 55% 3%
2% 75% 10% 10% 2% 20%
Registration Number: Animals noted with “R” number are Registered Brangus. Those noted with a “UB” number are Ultra-Blacks, indicating they are a Brangus-Angus blend. Those noted as UB2 are second cross Ultrablacks. “AX” or “UX” recorded animals are appendix recorded cattle that have non-typical Brangus color pattern. Animals noted with “DNA” are correctly pedigreed yet waiting final validation for AI sire or possibly Donor Dams. These animals will ultimately have “R” or “UB” prefixes. Polled/Scurred/Horned: Denotes animals that are either smooth polled or have the presence of scurs or slick spots. Those noted as “scurs” typi- cally have had scurs removed post-weaning. Individual Performance Birth Weight (BW): Actual weight at birth, expressed in pounds. Scrotal Circumference (SC): Testicular circumference, measured in centimeters, and adjusted to 365 days of age. New EPDs/Index Heifer Pregnancy (HP): The probability that a female will have a calf as a two year old. Expressed as a percent with the higher number more desirable. Stayability (Stay): Measures the probability that a cow will still be in the herd at six years of age, with the higher number being more desirable. Breed Back (BB): A fertility indicator trait that expresses the likelihood for a female ability to become pregnant on an annual basis, or a sire’s ability to produce daughters with the same value. Number of Calves (NC): A fertility indicator trait that expresses the number of potential calves a female will have in her lifetime, or a sire’s ability to pro- duce daughters with a greater likelihood to have more calves in her lifetime. Terminal Index (Term): Evaluates a sire for use on mature cows with all offspring put on feed and sold in a terminal end point scenario. No replacement females are kept in the scenario. Expected Progeny Difference Expected Progeny Difference (EPD): The genetic predictor of how fu- ture progeny of each animal are expected to perform relative to the prog- eny of other animals listed in the breed database. EPD Accuracy: Since all sale animals in this catalog are non-parents, their accuracies are the lowest calculated by our national sire evaluation program. Every EPD reported is either current, interim or pedigree EPD. Calving Ease Direct (CED): is expressed as a difference in percentage of unassisted births, with a higher value indicating greater calving ease in first-calf heifers. It predicts the average difference in ease with which a sire’s calves will be born when he is bred to first-calf heifers.
Birth Weight (BW): Expressed in pounds, is a predictor of an animal’s abil- ity to transmit birth weight to progeny compared to that of other animals. Weaning Weight EPD (WW): Expressed in pounds, is a predictor of an animal’s ability to transmit weaning growth to its progeny. Yearling Weight EPD (YW): Expressed in pounds, is a predictor of an animal’s ability to transmit yearling growth to its progeny. Milk EPD (Milk): Predicts an animal’s genetic merit for milk and mothering ability as expressed in daughters compared to daughters of other animals. In other words, it is that part of a calf’s weaning weight attributed to milk. Total Maternal EPD (TM): Expressed in pounds, a genetic predictor of weaning weight by blending maternal milk and weaning weight value. Scrotal Circumference EPD (SC): Measured in centimenters at yearling time, predicts testicular size. Ribeye Area (REA): Expressed in square inches, is a predictor of trans- mitting ribeye size and overall muscle which is a key component in USDA yield grades. Intramuscular Fat (IMF): Expressed as a percentage, is a predictor of transmitting ability for marbling or intra-muscular fat correlating to USDA quality grade at harvest time. Percentile Ranks: The given EPD values are current to the printing of this cata- log. However, an EPD is meaningless without the knowledge of where that given EPD ranks in a breed population. The PERCENTILE RANKS are offered in combi- nation with the EPD or Index values and determine where EPD ranks in the na- tional Brangus database from our National Genetic Evaluation. A percentile rank of 10% indicates a trait in the Top 10% of the entire nations Brangus database. Potential Genetic Conditions Genetic Conditions: If a genetic condition is known to exist in any sale animal or the potential of a genetic condition exists, we will make note of this in the information line for that animal. All animals in the sale have been tested, are pedigree free of any known conditions or will be noted as a potential carrier while waiting for final testing. Genomically Enhanced EPD Values GE-EPD Values: Genomically enhanced Expected Progeny Differences (GE-EPDs) are a more accurate prediction of an animal’s genetic merit, combining traditional EPD calculations with molecular genetic data from DNA testing. By analyzing an animal’s DNA and comparing it against a ref- erence population, GE-EPDs provide higher accuracy, especially for young, non-parent animals, allowing producers to make more informed decisions to accelerate genetic progress in their herds.
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