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Beef Cattle Breeding and Genetics

Minimum Breed EPD's 2007-2008
(for Tennessee Beef Enhancement Program)

UT Announces 10 New Clones Researchers with the UT Agricultural Experiment Station have their hands full with the exponential success of the UT Cloning Project.

COLOR PATTERNS IN BEEF CATTLE
Color Inheritance in Beef Cattle   (Corresponding Power Point pdf)
By F. David Kirkpatrick, Professor, Animal Science
(Posted March 1, 2004)

BREED AVERAGE EPD's - 2004 Born Non-Parents
BREED AVERAGE EPD'S FOR 2002 & 2003
EPD AVERAGES FOR CERTAIN BEEF BREEDS 1998-99
 
By F. David Kirkpatrick, Professor, Animal Science
(Posted September 21, 2000 - Updated May 18, 2006)

EPDs and Accuracy
By F. David Kirkpatrick, Professor, Animal Science
(Posted May 24, 2007)

FRAME SCORES IN BEEF CATTLE 
By F. David Kirkpatrick, Professor, Animal Science
(Posted September 20, 2000)

HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND USE SIRE SUMMARIES
By F. David Kirkpatrick, Professor, Animal Science
(Posted April 26, 1999)

NATURALLY OCCURRING MULTIPLE BIRTHS IN CATTLE
By F. David Kirkpatrick, Professor, Animal Science, University of Tennessee
(Posted March 5, 2004)

THE IMPORTANCE OF CONVENIENCE TRAITS IN BEEF CATTLE
By F. David Kirkpatrick, Professor, Animal Science
(Posted March 1, 2004)

YEARLING BULL MANAGEMENT
By James B. Neel, Professor and Neal Schrick, Associate Professor Animal Science, University of Tennessee
(Posted December 9, 2002)