Review: Improving residual feed intake modelling in the context of nutritional- and genetic studies for dairy cattle.

doi:10.1016/j.animal.2024.101268

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Review: Improving residual feed intake modelling in the context of nutritional- and genetic studies for dairy cattle.

Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Sept 2024

Stephansen R B, Martin P, Manzanilla-Pech C I V, Giagnoni G, Madsen M D, Ducrocq V, Weisbjerg M R, Lassen J, Friggens N C

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The residual feed intake (RFI) model has recently gained popularity for ranking dairy cows for feed efficiency. The RFI model ranks the cows based on their expected feed intake compared to the observed feed intake, where a negative phenotype (eating less than expected) is favourable. Yet interpreting the biological implications of the regression coefficients derived from RFI models has proven challenging. In...

Topics

Animals
Cattle
Female
Eating
Dairying
Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Animal Feed
Models, Biological
Phenotype
Least-Squares Analysis

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PMID: 39153439
DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101268

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