What is Better for Decreasing Calving Problems: Calving Ease Direct EPD, Birth Weight EPD, or a Combination of the Two?

Darrh Bullock (University of Kentucky): The best way to decrease calving problems in your herd is to use the calving ease direct EPD alone. It's often that producers want to look at both the calving ease direct and the birthweight EPDs, but actually when you do this you are double counting for birth weight. Birth weight does contribute a large part of the calving problems that we see but there are other factors that contribute as well that get included in the calving ease direct EPD.