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I am a genetics NERD & am so excited to share all about genomic testing with @ZoetisCattle this year. #SPONSORED

We don’t have a fancy purebred herd, but there is still a ton of value in knowing the genetic potential of our cows and genomic testing is available for commercial cows with INHERIT Select™.

INHERIT Select™ is an innovative, multi-breed genomic test that updates weekly providing predictions for commercial females including crosses of eight major beef breeds.

You will receive 20 trait EPDs and several economic indexes, as well as sire and dam parentage verification and breed composition on all tested animals.

It’s been so fun to see the breed compositions of the cows in our herd, but also know the genetic potential for each cow in comparison to how they have performed for us each year.

Visit https://bit.ly/beefgenetics to learn more about testing your own herd. Stay tuned for more videos discussing how we will be utilizing the information for key decision making later this year.

As always, feel free to drop any questions below and find me on almost every other social platform as @thatfitagvocate ! Thanks for watching!

00:00 - Intro to genetics
00:55 - Why we decided to test our cows
02:01 - Taking TSUs & ordering tests
05:00 - Genetic prediction results on our cows
08:26 - Red's genetics predictions & breed composition
09:10 - One of our top cow's genetic results
10:04 - Decisions that the results are helping us make
14:06 - Conclusion

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