Feed Efficiency and Animal Robustness

Feed Efficiency in the Beef Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 105-122

  Rauw, Wendy M ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barrel model of organism's energy balance, a balanced intake; Biological cost of stress, stress duration, severity, and stressors; Feed efficiency and animal robustness; Feed efficiency concentration, selection of a single trait and problems; Genetic potential of traits realized, environmental support of genetic expression; Nutrient resources, direct intake and body lipid, glycogen reserves; Resource allocation, evolutionary fitness in specific environments; RFI, resource allocation, for physical activity and coping with stress; Robustness trait inclusion in breeding, genetic trend for two traits at the same time; Sustainable breeding and robustness, and environmental sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876094374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118392331.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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