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It depends on what you are using the bull for. If he's used for producing daughters, then he must have his dam's qualities for milking ability, mothering ability, calving ease, femininity (reflected by the bull's masculinity), good pelvic area, and high fertility.

If he's used as a terminal sire (for selling calves for slaughter as beefers), he must produce calves with heavy weaning and yearling weights, good feed convertability, good rate of gain, adequate rib-eye area, and marbling.

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