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Review: Biological determinants of between-animal variation in feed efficiency of growing beef cattle.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Dec 2018
Cantalapiedra-Hijar G, Abo-Ismail M, Carstens G E, Guan L L, Hegarty R, Kenny D A, McGee M, Plastow G, Relling A, Ortigues-Marty I
Abstract excerpt
Animal's feed efficiency in growing cattle (i.e. the animal ability to reach a market or adult BW with the least amount of feed intake), is a key factor in the beef cattle industry. Feeding systems have made huge progress to understand dietary factors influencing the average animal feed efficiency. However, there exists a considerable amount of animal-to-animal variation around the average feed efficiency...
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