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- Marbling
- Tenderness
- Rib eye area
- Feminity (for cows and heifers)
- Masculinity (for bulls)
- Calving ease
- Milking ability
- Forage convertibility or feed efficiency
- Conformation
- Weaning weight
- Yearling weight
- Scrotal circumference (bulls only)
- Average daily gain
- Average daily intake
- Body condition score
- Longevity
- Thrive-ability under minimal management (beef cattle only)
- Fertility
- Temperament
- Growth rate
- Mature size (small vs. large)
- Health (i.e. freedom from diseases and disorders)
- Heterosis
- Milk quality and quantity
- Age of sexual maturity
- Time of conception (from birth to conception)
- Length of gestation
- Calf vigour & # of death losses
- Breed[s]/genetics
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