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Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Performance Group Estimation Based on Predicted Feed Intake for the Optimisation of Beef Production

This paper reports on the use of estimates of individual animal feed intake (made using time spent feeding measurements) to predict the Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), a measure of the amount of feed consumed to produce 1 kg of body mass, for an individual animal. Reported research to date has evaluate...

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Autores principales: Davison, Chris, Michie, Craig, Tachtatzis, Christos, Andonovic, Ivan, Bowen, Jenna, Duthie, Carol-Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10223015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37430533
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23104621
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author Davison, Chris
Michie, Craig
Tachtatzis, Christos
Andonovic, Ivan
Bowen, Jenna
Duthie, Carol-Anne
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Michie, Craig
Tachtatzis, Christos
Andonovic, Ivan
Bowen, Jenna
Duthie, Carol-Anne
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description This paper reports on the use of estimates of individual animal feed intake (made using time spent feeding measurements) to predict the Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), a measure of the amount of feed consumed to produce 1 kg of body mass, for an individual animal. Reported research to date has evaluated the ability of statistical methods to predict daily feed intake based on measurements of time spent feeding measured using electronic feeding systems. The study collated data of the time spent eating for 80 beef animals over a 56-day period as the basis for the prediction of feed intake. A Support Vector Regression (SVR) model was trained to predict feed intake and the performance of the approach was quantified. Here, feed intake predictions are used to estimate individual FCR and use this information to categorise animals into three groups based on the estimated Feed Conversion Ratio value. Results provide evidence of the feasibility of utilising the ‘time spent eating’ data to estimate feed intake and in turn Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), the latter providing insights that guide farmer decisions on the optimisation of production costs.
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spelling pubmed-102230152023-05-28 Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Performance Group Estimation Based on Predicted Feed Intake for the Optimisation of Beef Production Davison, Chris Michie, Craig Tachtatzis, Christos Andonovic, Ivan Bowen, Jenna Duthie, Carol-Anne Sensors (Basel) Article This paper reports on the use of estimates of individual animal feed intake (made using time spent feeding measurements) to predict the Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), a measure of the amount of feed consumed to produce 1 kg of body mass, for an individual animal. Reported research to date has evaluated the ability of statistical methods to predict daily feed intake based on measurements of time spent feeding measured using electronic feeding systems. The study collated data of the time spent eating for 80 beef animals over a 56-day period as the basis for the prediction of feed intake. A Support Vector Regression (SVR) model was trained to predict feed intake and the performance of the approach was quantified. Here, feed intake predictions are used to estimate individual FCR and use this information to categorise animals into three groups based on the estimated Feed Conversion Ratio value. Results provide evidence of the feasibility of utilising the ‘time spent eating’ data to estimate feed intake and in turn Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR), the latter providing insights that guide farmer decisions on the optimisation of production costs. MDPI 2023-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10223015/ /pubmed/37430533 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23104621 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Davison, Chris
Michie, Craig
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Andonovic, Ivan
Bowen, Jenna
Duthie, Carol-Anne
Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Performance Group Estimation Based on Predicted Feed Intake for the Optimisation of Beef Production
title Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Performance Group Estimation Based on Predicted Feed Intake for the Optimisation of Beef Production
title_full Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Performance Group Estimation Based on Predicted Feed Intake for the Optimisation of Beef Production
title_fullStr Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Performance Group Estimation Based on Predicted Feed Intake for the Optimisation of Beef Production
title_full_unstemmed Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Performance Group Estimation Based on Predicted Feed Intake for the Optimisation of Beef Production
title_short Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) and Performance Group Estimation Based on Predicted Feed Intake for the Optimisation of Beef Production
title_sort feed conversion ratio (fcr) and performance group estimation based on predicted feed intake for the optimisation of beef production
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10223015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37430533
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23104621
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