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Evaluating feet and leg structure: A lost and important skill - Progressive Cattle | Dairy cattle, Livestock judging, Cattle ranching

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Evaluating feet and leg structure: A lost and important skill

Selection used to be entirely phenotypic. Everybody was an expert in structural evaluation and based decisions off what was seen by the naked eye. Then came the performance movement of the 1960s and ’70s, and the industry shifted to modern evaluation systems and selection tools such as expected progeny differences (EPDs) as a large part of their selection.

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