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Effects of Selection for Low Residual Feed Intake on Meat Quality of Major Muscles from Angus, Charolais and Kinsella Composite Cattle
DownloadFall 2017
Residual feed intake (RFI) is a measure of animal feeding efficiency. Selection of high feed efficient cattle using RFI does not affect production performance; low RFI animals consume less feed to reach a similar body weight gain as high RFI animals and thus are considered as feed efficient...
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Fall 2020
Meat and carcass quality traits are of increasing interest to the swine industry due to their influence on customer purchasing and repurchasing decisions. However, meat quality traits must be measured post-mortem, meaning that these traits cannot be measured on the potential breeding candidates...