Leachman financial indexes allow you to HAVE IT ALL!
$RANCH®: Profit from birth through weaning. Includes: • Fertility, Milk, Growth • Cow feed intake and mature size $FEEDER®: Profit from weaning to harvest. Includes: • Feed conversion • Carcass value • Carcass weight $PROFIT®: $RANCH ® + $FEEDER ® . Puts it all together. • One number that predicts your bottom line! FEED:GAIN: Difference in the amount of feed a bull's progeny will consume to produce one pound of gain. Example: A -0.50 F:G EPD means this animal's progeny will consume 1/2 pound less feed per pound of gain than would progeny of a 0.00 F:G EPD sire. FEED INTAKE: Difference in feed consumption of each of a bull's progeny in a 112 day feeding period. Example: A steer whose sire has a -100 Intake EPD will eat 100 pounds less feed in 112 days than one whose sire had a zero Intake EPD.
$ INDEXES EXPLAINED: Good Better Best Average Top 25% Top 1%
% Rank:
$PROFIT ®
$9,201
$15,091
$29,528
$RANCH ®
$41
$81
$179
$FEEDER ®
$68
$112
$222
FEED EFFICIENCY EXPLAINED: Good Better Best % Rank: Average Top 25% Top 1% Feed:Gain 0.04 -0.04 -0.25 Intake 29.9 3.2 -62
ACROSS BREED COMPARISONS
Good Better
Best
CALVING EASE: The predicted calving ease if you use the bull on heifers. The easiest calving bulls in the industry Leachman ABC’s are the most reliable and comprehensive EPDs in the industry. They are backed by a large (nearly a million), long‑standing (over 30 years), multi‑breed (over 15 breeds) database. Using this system assures you of making sound breeding decisions with minimal risk of failure. DARE TO COMPARE: Y ou can’t afford to make mistakes in your breeding program. Choosing to use sires with incomplete or low‑value data can unknowingly make your herd less profitable. Same work, same cost, poor results — unacceptable.
% Rank:
Average Top 25% Top 1%
BW 1.8
0.2
-3.7
WW 42
50
71
YW 71
86
124
MILK
20
24
34
SC
0.52
0.77
1.4
HT
0.59
0.79
1.3
MAT WT
25
10
-26
REA 0.78
0.92
1.27
IMF
0.34
0.53
0.99
CAR WT
42
47
61
BF
-0.04
-0.02 -0.96
0.02
PAP
-0.4
-2.33
GOOD BETTER BEST
Use on smaller heifers with minimal assistance needed Use on larger heifers with some assistance expected (If no stars are shown, the animal is recommended for use on cows only) DISPOSITION: An observation of the sires disposition. Average – respects flight zones and handles well, but is not a pet
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