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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2018 Background The feed conversion ratio (FCR) and residual feed intake (RFI) are common indexes in measuring feed efficiency for livestock. RFI is a feed intake adjusted for requirements for maintenance and production so these two traits are related ...
Zhenhua Yi +8 more
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A procedure to quantify the feed intake response of growing pigs to perturbations
Animal, 2020 Improving robustness of farm animals is one of the goals in breeding programmes. However, robustness is a complex trait and not measurable directly. The objective of this study was to quantify and characterize (elements of) robustness in growing pigs ...
H. Nguyen-Ba +2 more
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Animal, 2020 Improvements in feed intake of dairy cows entering the early lactation period potentially decrease the risk of metabolic disorders, but before developing approaches targeting the intake level, mechanisms controlling and dysregulating energy balance and ...
B. Kuhla
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Genome-wide association analysis of feed intake and residual feed intake in Nellore cattle [PDF]
BMC Genetics, 2014 Feed intake plays an important economic role in beef cattle, and is related with feed efficiency, weight gain and carcass traits. However, the phenotypes collected for dry matter intake and feed efficiency are scarce when compared with other measures such as weight gain and carcass traits.
Santana, Miguel H. A. +15 more
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THE PERFORMANCE OF LAYING HENS FED DIFFERENT CALCIUM SOURCE [PDF]
Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture, 2012 The research was aimed to evaluate the performance of laying hens fed different calcium sources. Two hundreds of Isa Brown laying hens were used in this study. The hens were raised in individual battery cages units for 12 weeks.
S. Kismiati +3 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 Feed is one of the most important external signals in fish that stimulates its feeding behavior and growth. The intake of feed is the main factor determining efficiency and cost, maximizing production efficiency in a fish farming firm.
D. Assan +5 more
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Temperament and performance of Nellore bulls classified for residual feed intake in a feedlot system [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2020 This study aimed to evaluate the performance in feedlot and temperament of Nellore bulls classified by residual feed intake. The residual feed intake was calculated as the difference between the observed and predicted dry matter intake.
TIAGO P. GUIMARÃES +6 more
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Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2023 144 New Zealand weaned rabbits weighing (769.74 ± 67.32 g) were randomly chosen and divided into 3 groups by single factor design: The control group, compound essential oil group and oregano oil group, with 16 replicates in each group and 3 rabbits in ...
Jianbo He +8 more
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Methane, growth and carcase considerations when breeding for more efficient Merino sheep production
Animal, 2023 Feed intake, methane and feed efficiency have important genetic correlations with growth, carcase weights and mature size that need to be considered when breeding for production whilst reducing feed requirements and methane production in the Australian ...
G. Rose +8 more
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Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2023 The opportunity to select for feed efficient cows has been limited by inability to cost-effectively record individual feed efficiency on an appropriate scale.
Dagnachew Hailemariam +5 more
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