Sentence examples for feed efficiency measures from inspiring English sources

Ideally, feed efficiency measures would be independent of production and this was shown for RFI.

The greatest obstacle in the widespread use of feed intake and feed efficiency measures in breeding objectives is the availability of large quantities of feed intake data on individual animals (Berry and Crowley, 2013).

It should also be taken into consideration when proposing RFI, RIG or residual intake and gain to producers as a selection criterion that it is a difficult concept to grasp (Wulfhorst et al., 2010) and this may lower industry acceptance of residual feed efficiency measures.

Feed efficiency measured over a long period of time is possibly an aggregate efficiency over different developmental processes which can vary from species to species as well as the management practices under which animals are raised.

However, their study did not reveal that gynogens were less efficient foragers when compared to sexuals, and the two reproductive forms did not differ in feeding efficiency measured by gut fullness.

The results show that a cost efficient design can be used to estimate genetic correlations between feed efficiency measured in fresh water and during the grow-out period in seawater, and also between feed efficiency, growth and body composition, but must be used with caution as the method has reduced accuracy at lower true correlations.

Residual feed intake (RFI) is a feed efficiency measure, first defined in beef cattle by [ 13] and largely used to study the biology of feed efficiency and to verify the effectiveness of indirect indicators of feed efficiency [ 14- 18].

Feed efficiency, classically measured as weight gain per unit energy consumed in animal studies, was similarly calculated in this study to capture weight loss per unit restricted energy intake.

An M16 × ICR F2 population of 440 mice was available with complete records for body weight at 8 weeks (BW) and 337 records for feed intake (FI) and feed efficiency (FE), measured during the period 3 weeks to 8 weeks [ 17].

It is essential to combat the destructive trend of traditional pastoralism.The research by Mario Herrero of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia and colleagues starts by establishing a new data set on biomass use, meat production, feed efficiency, and other measures of livestock farming.

Generally, feed conversion ratio (FCR) and residual feed intake (RFI) were used to measure feed efficiency.