Imagine....
As in the proverbial question: “What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?” --What would you do if you could do ET? I know exactly what I would do….
Sometimes you have a jewel in your herd and you may never even realize it. It took me a long time to clearly see my best female and recognize her value. This girl is Valedar’s Parfait. She will be 11 years old this year. She has produced some nice cria. But until I started looking at EPD’s, I didn’t realize just how nice. As time has gone by, she has proven herself to not only have persistent fineness, but to consistently produce it in her offspring. At 10 years of age, her average micron is 20. Here are her EPD’s:
Valedar’s Parfait
EPDs
Trait Value Accuracy % Rank
AFD -2.641 0.462 better than top 1%
SDAFD -0.39 0.485 top 2%
SF -2.64 0.514 better than top 1%
%F>30 -9.875 0.516 better than top 1%
MC 5.4 0.446 better than top 1%
%M -4.037 0.386 top 1-2%
MSL -2.12 0.369 <90%
FW -0.049 0.285 <90%
Here are the EPD’s of 3 of her offspring that I still own:
All are out of different herd sires.
- TP Altiplano Gold’s Meringue Kiss (Date of Birth: 5/12/2009)
- TP Matrix Jubilee (Date of Birth: 10/23/2010)
- TP Snowmass Touche’s Eclaire (Date of Birth: 11/7/2011)
- TP Poseidon Motivator’s Tiramisu (Date of Birth: 11/3/2012) No EPD’s yet
TP Altiplano Gold’s Meringue Kiss (2009 Valedar’s Parfait cria)
EPDs
Trait Value Accuracy % Rank
AFD -1.596 0.414 top 3%
SDAFD -0.541 0.429 top 1-2%
SF -1.661 0.445 top 2%
%F>30 -5.901 0.437 top 4-5%
MC 1.336 0.405 top 15-20%
%M -3.115 0.353 top 15-20%
MSL 4.313 0.333 top 1%
FW 0.42 0.267 top 5-10%
TP Matrix Jubilee (2010 Valedar’s Parfait cria)
EPDs
Trait Value Accuracy % Rank
AFD -2.672 0.35 better than top 1%
SDAFD -0.502 0.353 top 1%
SF -2.614 0.36 better than top 1%
%F>30 -10.523 0.345 better than top 1%
MC 6.472 0.35 better than top 1%
%M -4.681 0.309 top 1%
MSL -2.748 0.296 90%
FW 0.24 0.229 top 15-20%
TP Snowmass Touche’s Eclaire (2011 Valedar’s Parfait cria)
EPDs
Trait Value Accuracy % Rank
AFD -2.147 0.187 better than top 1%
SDAFD -0.429 0.193 top 2-3%
SF -2.179 0.2 better than top 1%
%F>30 -8.472 0.201 top 1%
MC 4.718 0.183 better than top 1%
%M -2.395 0.162 top 5-10%
MSL -0.9 0.156 top 20-25%
FW 0.281 0.127 top 15-20%
In addition to these remarkable EPD’s, Valedar’s Parfait also has excellent conformation with an excellent bite. She has been a great mom and her cria have all gained weight well. And she maintains her weight while nursing fairly well. She and her daughters are exactly the kind of females that could be used just as we would any stud male. That is, if we could do Embryo Transfer. But…we can’t. At least, we can’t if we want to register the cria under the current registry rules.
Given those constraints, the best I can do is keep those valuable females in my breeding program, and sell breedings to their equally fabulous brother, TP Matrix Jubilee…and possibly in the future to TP Poseidon’s Motivator’s Tiramisu. On the other hand, if we could use Embryo Transfer, I could generously sell both male and female offspring out of Valedar’s Parfait. This would benefit my clients tremendously and the breed as a whole. Just imagine….