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Spring 2021
Hashemiranjbar Sharifabad, Mohsen
Feed represents more than half of the costs of livestock production. Residual feed intake (RFI) is a phenotypic measure of feed efficiency that has been proposed as the best approach for genetic improvement of dairy cows. Although RFI is considered as a useful tool for feed efficiency, the...
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Relationship between trained sensory and objective measured meat quality attributes in crossbred Canadian beef cattle after 3- and 29-days post-mortem aging
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Meat quality attributes are pivotal for the beef industry. Studies across Canada showed major beef quality concerns originate from inconsistency of palatability attributes. To improve these traits genetically, they should be standardly measured, their (co)variance components and genetic...