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Evaluating environmental impacts of selection for residual feed intake in pigs.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Dec 2020
Soleimani T, Gilbert H
Abstract excerpt
To identify a proper strategy for future feed-efficient pig farming, it is required to evaluate the ongoing selection scenarios. Tools are lacking for the evaluation of pig selection scenarios in terms of environmental impacts to provide selection guidelines for a more sustainable pig production. Selection on residual feed intake (RFI) has been proposed to improve feed efficiency and potentially reduce the...
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