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Invited review: Disentangling residual feed intake-Insights and approaches to make it more fit for purpose in the modern context.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2021
Martin Pauline, Ducrocq Vincent, Faverdin Philippe, Friggens Nicolas C
Abstract excerpt
Residual feed intake (RFI) is an increasingly used trait to analyze feed efficiency in livestock, and in some sectors such as dairy cattle, it is one of the most frequently used traits. Although the principle for calculating RFI is always the same (i.e., using the residual of a regression of intake on performance predictors), a wide range of models are found in the literature, with different predictors, different...
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