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Residual Feed Intake as an Efficiency Metric for Pre-Weaning Dairy Calves: What Do We Know?

Dairy cattle systems have targeted improvements in feed efficiency by selecting animals that can convert less feed into more products. Residual feed intake (RFI) has been the index of choice when selecting dairy cattle for feed efficiency. Nonetheless, RFI studies have focused on lactating cows, and...

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Autores principales: da Silva, Camila S., Leão, Juliana M., Lage, Camila F. A., Coelho, Sandra G., Campos, Mariana M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10455359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37629582
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life13081727