Article
Evaluation of various measures of and factors influencing feed efficiency of dairy cattle.
Journal of dairy science - 1 May 1992
Wang S, Roy G L, Lee A J, McAllister A J, Batra T R, Lin C Y, Vesely J A, Wauthy J M, Winter K A
Abstract excerpt
Early part records for milk yield and feed consumption of 2230 first lactation purebred and crossbred dairy cows were analyzed to evaluate various measures of feed efficiency. Corrected milk yield was estimated by adjusting the second 8 wk of milk yield for differences in weight of TDN consumed d...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Eating
- Female
- Genotype
- Hybrid Vigor
- Lactation
- Least-Squares Analysis
- Milk