Impact of selection for residual feed intake on breeding soundness and reproductive performance of bulls on pasture-based multisire mating

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2963-2969

  Wang, Z ^a   Colazo, M G ^b   Basarab, J A ^c   Goonewardene, L A ^a,b   Ambrose, D J ^a,b   Marques, E ^d   Plastow, G ^a   Miller, S P ^e   Moore, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^c LACOMBE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d Beefbooster Inc   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Bull fertility; Residual feed intake; Selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; EATING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; EATING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE;

EID: 84882668256     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: 15253163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2011-4521     Document Type: Article

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